Get Your Best Performance, an Exact Formula, and the Heart of Life

1. Influencing the Unconscious and Tapping into Your Best Performance

“Breathing is the only activity that you can consciously control but that also operates without your control, that is, unconsciously… This fact has some major implications. It means you can influence a slew of otherwise autonomic and involuntary functions like blood pressure and heart rate through deliberate, conscious breathing. It also means that breathing can influence the transition from conscious mental control of your performance—analytical, mechanical, judgmental, self-critical—to unconscious mental control, automatic, accepting, trusting.”

— Dr. Nate Zinsser, The Confident Mind

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2. The Center of the Heart of All Life

“In addition, the mental component of breath is a sense of rhythmic expansion and contraction. And I think that connects us to every other living thing because all living organisms breathe. So that same rhythm is at the center of the heart of all life.”

– Andrew Weil, MD, Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing

A simple reminder that the breath is something we all share and, in that way, it connects us to all of life.

3. The Exact Formula for a Breathing Practice That Reduces Stress & Anxiety

Another 2-min explainer video is up. This one is on the incredible HHPF study showing the ingredients needed for an effective breath practice for stress & anxiety.

Check it out below.

P.S. Get the original study here.

4. The Only Thing We Can Control

“The only thing that we can control and master is our own spiritual path.”

— Anyen Rinpoche & Allison Choying Zangmo, The Tibetan Yoga of Breath

A nice reminder that the only thing we can control and master is our own path, no one else’s.

“Focusing on my breathing means that I can let my body tap into what it knows and has practiced without my brain interrupting.”

— Belisa Vranich & Brian Sabin

In good breath,

Nick

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