Dave Wood
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They tend to burn themselves out, right?
So I'll give you a sniper to shoot someone from 500 meters away.
Do they need to be in the red or the blue?
They've got to be in the blue.
Yes.
They have to be more in the blue, right?
Low heart rate, low blood pressure, breathing's down.
If I have to shoot you from 20 feet away, do I need to be in the red or the blue?
Yeah, red.
Yeah, red.
And so a sniper will do a couple of cycles of this box breathing.
Inhale, hold.
Exhale, hold.
Inhale, hold.
And they're able to shift their state rapidly and on demand in very dynamic, high stress, high pressure situations.
Why can they do it so quickly?
They train it every day.
And that's one of the key things with the work that I do is training this breathing every day, just five minutes a day.
Your brain just recognizes patterns.
Oh, he's doing that breathing thing again.