The greatest investment you will ever make in your life

A breathwork practice is the greatest investment you could ever make.

It's very simple...

You can go many days without food (I have done this), you can go days without water (I have done this), you can even go for a very long time without proper nutrition and sunlight (I do not recommend this).

You can only go a few minutes without breathing before you sustain a brain injury and likely die (this excludes various breathing practices intended to allow for the adaptation/tolerance for CO2, which is VERY good for your body - more on that later).

The mystics knew that Breath and Spirit are one in the same. "Inspiritus" is Latin for "Breathe" and it is synonymous with "Spirit".

Breath is the life force needed to animate your body.

When you learn to control your breathing, you can control and alter the Life Force Energy (Spirit) moving throughout your body. And when you do this, you change your state of mind and emotions.

It baffles me that Breathwork is not the most highly recommended practices in all of Western Medicine, because it is the number 1 preventative and upgrading health practice. Honestly though, I am not surprised, because sadly the Western medical industry is well, and industry! Anyways, let's continue...

There are many ways to do alter your state and harness your life force energy with breathing, but the most important relationships I would like to tell you about is that of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Oxygen (O2).

This is where science bridges the realms of spirituality... what is happening on a cellular level that gives rise to this Spirit? In my research, it is the relationship of O2 and CO2 on the red blood cell. And of course, that is only a part of the truth, because the whole truth can never be spoken and is to complex for our human minds to grasp. Regardless, I am going to tell you a bit about the relationship of CO2 and O2 with the red blood cell.

When you exhale, you vent off CO2. This is called ventilation and it is actually the main mechanism of breathing for humans. It's the main reason we breath. Breathing for us is a matter of ventilating and managing CO2.

On your red blood cells there is something called Hemoglobin, and it is what makes your blood look red (essentially). O2 and CO2 are constantly in competition to be on Hemoglobin. They (and other various oxygen species) really really really want to bind with Hemoglobin. Now there are various factors like pressure gradients and the area of the body that give rise to whether more O2 or CO2 is bound to hemoglobin, making the blood oxygenated and or not, but here's the thing.... the more you can adapt yourself to tolerating CO2, the more your blood cells can uptake O2.

All that to be said, you don't need to understand any of this, and you can still gain the benefits!

In later posts I will further explain why learning to slow down your breathing so as to adapt yourself to CO2 is so good for your health.

For now, here are some tips on how to get started with a regular breathwork practice 👇

Here's how:

Commit yourself a daily breathwork practice (start very small, like 5 minutes or less, and once you've done that more 2+ weeks, increase the time)
Make it simple (you can literally just sit there an be conscious of your breathing. If you want to alter your state, you will have to learn some techniques. If you'd like to improve your health, you will have to learn techniques, get into regularly practice and overtime your health will greatly increase)
Get an accountability buddy (you're WAY more likely to continue when you're not the only person who's keeping you accountable)
Join my Breathwork Sessions (coming soon: I will teach the techniques that I use and we will practice together)
Do your own research (we are in the age of information, and so much information is free. There are even many free guided breathwork sessions on youtube and various other places. I have a few great practices on my YouTube Channel)

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