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It is kinder and it is more accurate. Nobody is judged on whether the alarm went off. What tells you something is whether you are still shaking two hours later or fifteen minutes later. If you want something to keep an eye on, watch the return rather than the absence of upset, and expect it to shorten over months rather than days.
'by the soul and how He formed it' (Quran 91:7). The way you are made includes the coming back, not only the being knocked over.
Translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur'an, Oxford University Press, 2004.
A meta analysis combining heart rate variability with brain imaging found that the measure tracks activity in the brain networks that regulate emotion and threat, supporting its use as a physiological index of how well a person is regulating stress. There is real ground for treating regulation as something measurable. Whether any individual's recovery time maps neatly onto that index is a further step the analysis does not take.
Thayer JF, Ahs F, Fredrikson M, Sollers JJ, Wager TD. (2012). A meta-analysis of heart rate variability and neuroimaging studies: implications for heart rate variability as a marker of stress and health.. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews doi
Strength of evidence: one line of research. A single study, or a theoretical account.
Recovery speed is trainable in a way that never being upset is not.
The goal is not to have less energy. It is to have a brake you can feather rather than slam.
Neurofeedback usually starts with an assessment, then a block of sessions, then a review, and it is mostly paid for privately. Ask about all of that before you begin.
Going limp is an old survival bet, not a failure of nerve. Some animals are alive only because they stopped moving.