Brandon Epstein

He taught me up at the meridians, very simple ones that he's like, okay, visualize breathing energy.

And this is martial arts stuff, right?

So much has to do with breathing.

So he was into martial arts as well.

Like, all right, I want you to imagine breathing up your governing meridian and your central meridian, which is like right on your spinal cord and up the center line of your body.

He's like, all right, breathe in deeply here.

How do you feel?

I was like, oh, I just feel more confident.

I feel stronger.

So he started just teaching me how to do simple stuff like that and then bring it on to like the football field.

I was a D lineman.

And so I needed to knock people over.

Same thing as martial arts, right?

I needed to feel grounded.

So I needed to connect to my root chakra, which is, you can call it whatever you want.

I don't care.

But it's like,

The root part of your body, the primal, you know, ball sack area down there, the gooch, that if you can start to breathe into that area of your body, you will feel more grounded and you can actually become more grounded.

So I started using these techniques just to play football.

And by doing so, I was like, I don't really care about studying the system super in depth, but I was just taking the tools that were useful to me, like literally use these and