Sep 21, 2020
#166:
Over the last two years, I’ve used breathwork to reduce anxiety,
fall asleep with ease, get myself awake and alert in the morning
and even…
….enhance the quality of my erections.
Seriously.
It turns out the nose is more intimately connected to the
genitals than any other organ.
That’s just one of the many incredible benefits of breathing
intentionally.
The problem is, humans are terrible breathers.
According to James Nestor, author of the NY Times Best Selling
book Breath, “Humans are the worst breathers in the animal
kingdom.”
90% of us are breathing incorrectly.
40% of today’s population suffers from chronic nasal
obstruction.
Most of use only 10% of our diaphragm’s capacity.
If you experience any of the following, elevating the quality of
your breathing is essential:
- If you feel a chronic state of low-grade (or high grade)
stress
- If you have chronically obstructed nasal passages
- If you have a hard time being present/in the moment
- If you have a hard time falling or staying asleep
- If you snore/have sleep apnea
- If you have a hard time waking up in the morning
- If you feel fatigued more often than you want
- If you feel unusually sore in the days after workouts
- If you’ve ever had a panic attack
Many of these issues are attributed to 1 of 3 poor
breathing patterns:
- Mouth Breathing (Solution: Nose
Breathing)
- Chest Breathing (Solution: Belly
Breathing)
- Over Breathing (Solution: Balanced
Breathing)
In this episode
- Different breathwork techniques for reducing stress, falling
asleep faster, activating energy and yes…enhancing the quality of
your erections
- We unpack two incredible books – Breath by James Nestor and The
Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeown – which give us the history for
how we’ve become such terrible breathers, and the science behind
how proper breathing makes nearly everything about how we
feel…better
- The counterintuitive science of how oxygen gets to the muscles,
tissues and organs (spoiler alert: it’s not by breathing more or
taking deeper breaths)
5 breathwork practices you can implement right now
- Box Breathing: For alert and relaxed state of
being
- 4, 7, 8 Breathing: For sleep, stress reduction
and short-circuiting anxiety
- Wim Hof Hyperventilating Breathing: For
energy
- Solo Nostril Breathing: For either activating
energy, or calming your nervous system
- Humming Breathing: For nitric oxide production
(read: strong erections)