E43: The Secret To A Longer, Happier Life As An Entrepreneur
Discover a transformative secret hiding in plain sight - your breath. This ancient, yet cutting-edge tool is the key to unlocking unprecedented levels of success in both your personal and professional life. Best of all? It's completely free and always at your fingertips.
In this week's episode, we're diving into:
- Your Personal Swiss Army Knife: Learn how this versatile technique can totally revolutionize every aspect of your life, from being more productive to improving your relationships
- The Timeless Secret to Longevity and Happiness: Uncover the scientifically-backed benefits of proper breathing, including lowering your stress levels, being a happier human, and living longer!
- Breathing To Succeed: Learn how to use powerful breathwork strategies to make decisions faster, awaken your creativity, and boost your energy levels (without drinking yet another latte)
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Please find the show notes below. Since it is a transcription there may be spelling errors and/or weird grammar. Ignore that and enjoy!
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Did you know that you've had a Swiss Army
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knife in your back pocket this whole time
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and you probably had no idea?
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What?What am I even talking about?Well,
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my beautiful friend, I'm about to tell
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you about the Swiss Army knife,
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or the tool of all tools that you've had
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this whole time you've been using
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this whole time. Probably not aware of
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it, but now you will be.
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Welcome back to the
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Purposeful Powerhouse podcast. And
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this week we are talking about the
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tool of all tools, the foundation
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and the fundamental lessons of life.
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Want to guess what it is?You probably
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know.
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Yes, the ha, the breath.
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Holy moly. Where would we be without it?
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I don't know. In another universe, who
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knows, right?We could speculate on that
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all day long. But here's what the
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Yogi's knew. Here's what so
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many beautiful cultures around the world
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Revere and respect and practice.
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Here's what many different practices
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around the world know that your breath
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is so impactful
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as a tool of life.
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Vital, of course, but. It
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can be used in so many different ways,
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it's almost undescribable.
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But The thing is, it's just
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happening without you even realizing it.
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Thank you very much to the amazing design
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of your body and your nervous system. But
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there's a belief in the yoga practice
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that each person is given a certain
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number of breaths for the duration
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of their life, and their life is measured
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in those number of breaths and therefore.
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The quality of their life is measured
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in the quality of their breath. So if you
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think about it, it's not a weird or far
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out there concept. The average adult
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breathes about 12 to 20
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breaths per minute. So depending on how
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many breaths they breathe in that minute
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will impact the number of breaths per
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hour, day, week, et cetera, et cetera,
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over the course of their lifetime. So
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that's interesting, right?And so.
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The interesting thing about this is if
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you intentionally slow
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down your breath, in theory,
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you can slow down your life. And here's
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the cool thing. Science
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agrees with that too. The deeper you
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breathe, the more regulated
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and centered you become. Because
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when you breathe slow, deep
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breaths, you signal safety.
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To your body by way of your vagus nerve,
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because your vagus nerve is the wandering
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nerve. That's where you know the word
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vagabond comes from, is the the root
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of the vagus nerve of that
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wandering essence throughout the entire
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body. Your vagus nerve is the main
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highway of your nervous system, and it
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interacts, of course, with your brain,
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but with every one of your vital organs
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and many of your tissues throughout your
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entire body. But here's the interesting
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thing. The only one that you have direct
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control over is you guessed it. You're so
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smart. Your lungs, right?
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You. We cannot control the rhythm of our
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heartbeat consciously, but we can
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consciously begin to
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slow down your
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breaths, and in doing so,
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you begin to impact your heart rate
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rhythm. And when your breath
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begins to slow down and you breathe in
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that nice, easy way that you
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probably breathe when you're sleeping, or
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when you're doing your yoga, or when
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you're really relaxed, or when you were a
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baby, when we breathe in that
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slow, spacious way,
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it starts to slow everything down. So
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when we breathe in a more deep
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diaphragmatic way, so let's do it now,
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because hello, we probably could use a
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little deep breath here. Place your hands
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on your body, one hand on your belly, one
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hand on your chest. And if it's safe to
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do so, close your eyes. If it's not, keep
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them open and just breathe into your
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belly and then
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breathe out. Oh, that's so nice.
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Do it again.
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One more time.
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So what happens, or what's beginning to
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happen is as you affect the
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rhythm of your breath, your blood
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pressure starts to slow down, your heart
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rate rhythm starts to slow down and
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become more consistent, right?And so
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as your heart rate rhythm becomes steady
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and consistent, that signals. To your
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brain, everything's safe. Let's bring
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down the cortisol levels. Let's bring
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down adrenaline levels. Let's create that
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sense of ease in your body, because
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that's what you're signaling by way of
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your breath. So go back to that number of
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breaths for the course of your lifetime
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as we slow and deepen the breath,
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and you're creating those internal
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signals and effects. All
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of those effects lend
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to. You being healthier,
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slower rate of aging
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of your cells, blood pressure going
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down, energy levels coming
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up. So it's not just a
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wild idea that the Yogi's had. It's
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actually based in conventional
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understanding of the impact of the
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breath on your stress levels, on your
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vital organs. Right. So that's pretty
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incredible. So if you think about it, the
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deeper you breathe, the better you feel.
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The deeper you breathe, the longer you
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might live. And there's actual science
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behind it, as we've just uncovered there.
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So I could probably stop the episode
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there and you'd be like, Yep, OK, I'm
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convinced I should breathe a little
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deeper. I should definitely grab that
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breathe to succeed breath work bundle
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you've been talking about, Megan. But I
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have a little more for you, cause you
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know, I'm extra so.
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Let's talk about how the breath is like
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the Swiss Army knife of life.
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The reality is just to bring
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yourself into that steady rhythm, right?
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Think of it like waves on the ocean, nice
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and easy, nice and slow. Or if you've
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ever seen a heart rate monitor and it
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just goes beep, beep, beep, beep.
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That's what happens when we regulate the
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breath that way. And that's if
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you are feeling like you just want to
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come into that nice steady state. You
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can even the breath, so you can practice
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that steady rhythm of the breath,
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counting for four counts as you breathe
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in to your belly, 4 counts as you breathe
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out, right?And so even just that bringing
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the breath to that steady rhythm, which
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is called Sama Vritti. So Sama
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is the root word for same. Vritti is
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fluctuation. So there's just that
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evenness to the breath. Creates that
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coherence, right?So this is a breathing
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pattern that's been studied by incredible
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organizations around the world, including
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the Heart Math Institute, who look at the
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impact of the breath and this steady,
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coherent or consistent or some of
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Riti rhythm. On our overall
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function, on your inner state,
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on the ability to create an
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expansive frequency to your
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body. Because yes, as much as they're
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into the science, the science is that you
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have an electromagnetic.
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Impact on the world by way of your
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inner state, right?Your heart has a a
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measurable frequency to it, which, you
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know, depending on how grounded and
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centered and coherent you are, can be
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measured up to six feet around you, right?
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So that's your vibe, if you will, from a
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science perspective, the electromagnetic
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frequency that you're giving off. Same,
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same. Right. Isn't that cool?Like the
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ancients knew it. Now science is really
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validating it. As far as the impact on
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your longevity, your brain function, your
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organ function, all of those things are
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we're talking about the same thing here.
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We might be using different words, but
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we're all talking about the same thing.
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And so that's just one that's like across
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the board, very beneficial. So
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then. Think about it. The breath being
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the number one tool to reduce your stress
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level quickly, right?And you probably
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felt that in that, you know, those 3 deep
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diaphragmatic breaths. And so to review,
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your diaphragm is a Dome shaped muscle
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that goes all the way around your rib
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cage at the bottom of your rib cage. And
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as we breathe in, it moves down, it
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contracts down into the belly and
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actually massages your abdominal organs
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when we breathe in. And so that's why
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your belly expands. Like think of when
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you watch a baby sleeping or when you
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watch a baby sleeping, you can. You can
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almost see their whole body breathing in
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and out. And so as we breathe out, it
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relaxes and it actually domes back up and
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it massages the outer layer of your
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heart. So when you breathe deeply, not
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only are you doing all the things we just
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talked about, but you're actually
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massaging your abdominal organs and your
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heart. So deep diaphragmatic breathing is
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actually really beneficial for your
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actual boom boom, boom boom, the lub dub
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of the actual musculature of the organ of
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your heart. Again, like,
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hi, is that not the coolest thing ever?I
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don't know about you. I just think that's
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cool. So that's where
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we can start to play with the breath. And
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that's where we can look at it as this
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sort of, you know, tool that you
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can use in a variety of different ways.
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And so going back to how it's used to
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lower your stress levels, it's actually
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used as a very important tool for
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people who are dealing or
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navigating
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PTSA. Formerly known as
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PTSD, right?Post-traumatic stress
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disorder. But they've recognized it as an
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adaptation or a way to
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handle something that happened in their
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in someone's life. So it's not not being
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called a disorder anymore, but it's a a
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survival technique, right?It's our
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ability to move beyond what
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happened in that moment, right?That
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traumatic incident that happened, which.
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As a definition, trauma can be anything
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from, you know, very something very small
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to a massive large scale, right?And so
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it's something that's too much, too fast,
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too soon for the nervous system is
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traumatic on that scale. So there's
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adaptations to that. And so trauma
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doesn't, it's not so much a it
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can be part of our memory, but it's more
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how we react to something in the future.
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And so as we're experiencing triggers.
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of the tools that is commonly and very
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highly used is soft belly
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breathing and so
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using the breath to soothe. And slow
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ourself down and to bring your your
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focus out of the mind and
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into your body to create safety in
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that moment and remind your system that
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in this moment, if you're having a memory
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or you're getting triggered or even in a
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moment of a very highly stressful
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situation, you're using the breath to
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stay very centered and focused. So of
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course that's impactful in a. In
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a stressful situation, right, to use the
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breath to keep yourself centered, to keep
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yourself focused. Because when we're when
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we're under stress or when we're in a
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challenging moment, your body's very much
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in a survival mechanism and mode, right?
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situation aside, right?Of course there's
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survival mechanisms that kick in, fight,
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flight, freeze and fun to navigate and
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get out of that situation. But once we've
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moved beyond that and we're just in our.
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day. Our body reacts the same way
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to stressors now, like to the ping
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of an e-mail notification that you
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weren't expecting and you get tripped up
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and you get freaked out. It reacts the
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same way to the way that our ancestors
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nervous systems reacted to the, you know,
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Tyrannosaurus Rex and the, you know,
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saber-toothed tiger. We're wired the same
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way. So when we're experiencing a
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stressful situation. And we can use the
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breath to center and regulate ourselves
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to do everything we talked about earlier
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in the episode. You take control, right?
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You take control by shifting yourself
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into a centered state. And then we.
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Shift out of that stress or survival
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state, which is the amygdala activation
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center. So that's the survival center of
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the nervous system in the brain, part of
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it in the in the brain. And we bring your
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prefrontal cortex back online, which is
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your higher functioning center part of
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the brain, creativity, imagination,
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focus, memory, inspiration,
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all of that is activated in that part of
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the brain. So when we're navigating
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stressful moments. And we use the
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breath mentally. That's what's happening.
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And so that keeping that in mind, right.
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getting triggered and we go back to that
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soft belly breathing, you literally take
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control of the moment
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by where you place your focus
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and you are regulating the breath because
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you have control over that, right?
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focusing on, although your mind will tell
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you different. You know that using this
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tool to smooth out the breath does
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everything we just talked about, and it
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has those beautiful internal effects on
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you. So that is, you know, to use it in a
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potentially triggered moment or
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potentially triggered situation.
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But what about if you're feeling really
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anxious, right?If we are feeling really
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wound up and we're feeling really frantic?
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exhalation because the qualities of the
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exhalation are a drawing
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inwards, a contracting, a
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grounding, a centering
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quality to it. That's what the exhalation
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helps us to do. So if you're feeling
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really wound up and frantic, we wanna
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focus on smoothing out the exhalation,
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elongate, lengthen the exhalation.
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Because that begins to slow the heart
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rate rhythm. It begins to slow the breath
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rhythm, which then of course has
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beautiful effects for the elasticity of
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your lungs. It helps to decrease your
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blood pressure, increases blood flow to
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the lower part of the lungs, which is
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where oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange
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happens. And so that's you can use the
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breath to really ground you. But what
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about when you're feeling tired?You can
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use the inhalation. Because it's very
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uplifting, it's very expansive. It brings
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us, it lifts us up, right, if you
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feel that sense of of
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expansion that comes when we breathe in.
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And so there's so many different ways
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that you can play with the breath.
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There's so many different types of
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pranayama or breath control, right?
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Because the the breath carries the pranic
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energy, the life force energy. So there's
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lots of different ways that we can use
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the breath. What about if you're feeling,
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you know, really uninspired and it feels
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like your brain is just muted?Well, then
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there's ways that we can activate the
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brain, activate different parts of the
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brain to go back into that sense of.
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Of aliveness, of awakeness, of
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creativity. So it's really, it's such
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a versatile tool and it's so underrated.
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And then the last thing that I'll say
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about it is because when you're, you
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know, you're counting the breath rate or
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you're focusing on where you feel it or
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you're, you know, you're using it in a
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really sharp and
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sharp and short, short, hard to say
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in a really intentional sort of pattern
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that we do in these different styles of
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breath. Then you're you're really
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focusing your mind. So if you're someone
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like me who has a hard time
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just sitting there and meditating in
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a classic traditional sense of just
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watching the breath move in and out in
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that normal, regulated, smooth, some of
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Riti pattern or.
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Finds that when you go to sit down to
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meditate, you're just mentally pacing
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back and forth, and it just feels like
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you're writing your to-do list and you're
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like a squirrel that drank too much
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Pepsi. I don't know that they ever do
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that, but you know what I'm feeling that
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that like dinginginging sort of vibe. And
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so if that's your
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experience of meditation, like it was
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mine in the past until I discovered
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breathwork, you might find that
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breathwork is a tool, is an entry
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point. Into meditation. And for
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many of us who are very, you know,
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need to do something in the moment or we
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have a really highly active personality
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or you find that your brain is just, you
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know, all over the place or you couldn't
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get it to sit still for the life of you.
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It's a tool, right?It's a tool to
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learn, to train the the ability to
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hold your mind in one position.
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It's a tool to be able to take command of
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your mind and. Be in control of it rather
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than it being in control of you. And
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breath work is kind of like the
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equivalent of giving a puppy a
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new toy. Right. You give the puppy a toy,
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you give it something to do. And so it
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entertains itself for a little while. And
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then as you're doing the breath work and
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you focus on it and you're observing
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yourself in the moment as you're
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continually doing the breath and you're
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like, oops, I'm distracted. I'm
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pretending to do my breath, but I'm
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actually thinking about the funnel that
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I'm creating for my Black Friday
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promotion, you know?And so then we
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go back to the breath. Right.
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Rather than just sitting there and being
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still, you're using a tool because that's
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what tools are for, right?Tools are no
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good if they're in the box on the shelf.
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And so go back to our puppy analogy.
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You've given the puppy something to do,
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something to play with, and you go back
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and check on it, right?Like you're doing
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in your meditation, you're aware of where
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your focus is. You go back and you check
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on the puppy and the puppy's nowhere to
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be found and it's over there scratching
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on the wall, right?Your mind is very
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similar. So what we're doing here is
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we're just constantly bringing it back
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over. Telling it to sit and stay and
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focus on the breath. And then, you know,
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inevitably it will wander around. And
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then next time you look, you look over
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and it's peeing on the carpet, right?And
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the puppy, not your mind. Who
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knows, right?And so really, just keep
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in mind that there's so many different
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ways that you can use this incredibly
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versatile tool,
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especially in a practical
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way. Right. And so, yes, you know,
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as much as it's part of the actual
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practice of yoga and it's one of the
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limbs of the yoga practice,
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pranayama that helps us to prepare for
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meditation, right. It's like the
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precursor to be able to sit still is to
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bring ourselves into that steady state is
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that there's really practical
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applications for this tool
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and so. That's, you know, what I wanted
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to remind you of and to share and to give
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you some insights into. And so inside the
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Breathe to Succeed Breathwork bundle,
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there's three different power pauses. So
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three different breathwork practices,
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each with a totally different focus. So
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the first one is dropping into an
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ocean of calm so deep that you'll make
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the Buddha prep. And So what is that one
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for?Well, you know, maybe let's take a
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guess when you're in the middle of your
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holiday promo and you are like, I'm so
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overwhelmed. I don't know what to do. And
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there's so many things that I don't know.
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And you're feeling that wound up
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tighter than a ball of elastics. I don't
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know. I couldn't think of something
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that's wound up really tight really
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quickly. I'll come back to you on that.
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And when you're feeling that sort of
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wound up frantic energy, the first one,
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ocean of calm, literally takes you.
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So I had one of our community members,
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Melissa did it and she said she started
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at a one and she finished at a nine. She
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said she was so Zen, she was so blissed
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out. Yay. So then the second one
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is for the moments in this holiday
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hecticness when you're like, you know, I
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really, I want to have a promo, but I
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have no idea and I'm trying to figure
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something out. Or you're feeling that
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mental block and you just. Kind of
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feeling like, you know, there's things
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you need to do, but for the life of you,
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you can't get your brain to boot up
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because it's just over there, like,
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you know, when you need it to go and be
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coming up with ideas and actually, you
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know, doing something because it happens,
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right?And all the coffee in the world may
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be not helping. So the second power pause
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that you'll get inside the breath, inside
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the breathe to succeed is. Tap into
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Flow so you can drop into that
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state of creativity faster than you
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can open your laptop and turn on Chat
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Gibidibidi and, you know, rewrite
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some of that generic woof that comes out
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of it sometimes faster than you can do
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that. You'll be tapping into Flow using
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