Ben Greenfield
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get high on your own supply type of like 90 minute breathwork sessions.
There's some couple sessions in there.
You know, my wife and I will sometimes do a breathwork session.
It's almost like foreplay.
You can do a 20 or 30 minute breathwork session as a couple where, you know, I'm breathing into her, she's breathing into me and you can like sit cross-legged in bed and it's this entire choreographed breath routine and music.
But if you look at a Wim Hof protocol or pranayama breathwork,
or any of these popular forms of excitatory breathwork, in many cases, you're retaining CO2 and oxygen simultaneously, and the high amounts of CO2 can actually help with the oxygen delivery to your tissue.
I've done breathwork for freediving and spearfishing and Wim Hof style cold exposure with my sons who are 15 now, who I've had in breathwork since they were six years old, just because it's such a good way to know how to control your body's stress response and create nervous system resilience.
So you almost reach this hyperoxygenated state.
There's a lot of breathwork apps out there that can assist with this.
And then another form of breathwork that's really good is there's another app called the breath source.
Two of my favorites, there's one called OtherShip.
It's fantastic.
It's got like two-minute sessions, five-minute sessions.
And the breath source lets you choose from like different instructors whose courses you're going to take, or whose breathwork sessions that you want to follow.
All the way to like super deep, like holotropic, get high on your own supply type of like 90 minute breathwork sessions.
I am actually a featured instructor in that app.
There's some couple sessions in there.
You know, my wife and I will sometimes do a breathwork session.
And I've got 10 different breathwork sessions.