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First think about what your heart is doing - it's a pump, right? It's pumping blood throughout your body, by squeezing it through little tubes (our arteries!) with enough force to push that liquid blood along. So every time the pump pushes (meaning the heart muscle contracts then relaxes) the blood moves further. Just like if you have a long skinny tube and you put your hand in at one end and push, push, push to get the water to the other end. So as your blood pushes through the veins it pulses with each push (or, heart muscle contraction). When you feel your pulse on your body, at a point where the artery or vein is close to the skin so you can feel it, you are just feeling the pushes of the blood from the heart. So whatever pattern the heart is beating - which is the heart muscle contracting - that is the pattern of your pulse.

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