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Notes from Breathing for Health

breathing has a Body-Mind-Connection
Our breathing reflects the way that we feel
- if we have no reason whatsoever to feel stressed or anxious, but we’re breathing in a stressed or anxious way, it’s going to cause us to feel stressed or anxious
breathwork is any time you become aware of your breathing and then use it purposefully
we were able to increase vagal tone over a 20 minute breathing session. Not just a little bit, not even just doubling it, which by itself would be crazy. We increased it by nearly 600%.
Our physical and mental actions and behaviors are completely interconnected and building a breathwork habit can help with both
An emotion is simply a chemical reaction that happens and creates certain sensations. And then we group those sensations together and we define that as a feeling or an emotion
- Link to Access your Emotional Intelligence

History, music and neuroscience all suggest you may produce some of your best work by learning to let go
He would research, draft, redraft, memorise, finally deliver with passion.
Improvisers shut down their inner critics and allow new ideas to flow out, escaping their internal restraints.
They’re letting go. The improvising brain is disinhibited,
- That is why improvisers can produce flashes of pure brilliance.
Too much filtering can squash our creativity
improvisation as the freedom and space to hear things.
- Let go of your inhibitions and give yourself what Miles Davis called the freedom and space to hear things.
So the lesson here is not to abandon all preparation, but at a certain point, all of your meticulous preparations may become a constraint.
You may be surprised what you can achieve when you quiet your inner critic and stop holding back.