Ben Greenfield
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Mine are very religious or spiritual in nature, meaning it's like the Jesus prayer or focusing on certain passages of the Bible as you breathe through a really hardcore routine.
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.
And so for people who want that morning spiritual routine, that's another example of breathwork that you can use for that.
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.
And then back to the biohacking thing, if you want to get super crazy, there's this machine that I love.
It's called the BrainTap, and it's a light and sound stimulation machine
And then another form of breathwork that's really good is there's another app called the breath source.
And I'm one of those guys who's like not hypnotizable, never have been.
But this is the one thing that will get me into a deep hypnotic trance.
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.
And there's like 300 different tracks on there for relaxation, for focus, for pain relief.
I am actually a featured instructor in that app.
But some of them are breath work.
And when you pair the breath work sessions in that machine to the light and the sound stimulation, I mean, I know a lot of people are into plant medicine these days, you know, psilocybin, LSD, ayahuasca, whatever.
And I've got 10 different breathwork sessions.
And
Mine are very religious or spiritual in nature, meaning it's like the Jesus prayer or focusing on certain passages of the Bible as you breathe through a really hardcore routine.