Dave Wood

These are all things that have a massive impact over the long term in terms of your stress control.

But yeah, then we have more specific and targeted things.

The fastest or the most direct

way to shift into a calm state is to control your breathing because of the indirect connection your breathing has with your nervous system.

When you slow your breathing down and you prolong the exhale, it activates the calming division of your nervous system.

So in effect, you can create internally a recovery state just by controlling your breathing.

And so we bring in these breathing flows, five minute breathing flows, 10 minute breathing

15 minutes that we integrate into people's days to help them shift out of that red back into the blue.

Yeah, when you are in a stress state and you are equating busyness with productivity and you've got deadlines and you're getting stuff done, the idea of you are not in that type of brain state is called a beta brain state.

That's when you're in that sympathetic division of your nervous system.

You're in a beta brainwave state, which is great for hyperfocus and getting stuff done.

The opposite of that is an alpha brainwave state, and that's a calming brainwave state.

That's where you feel more centered, more grounded, more calm, have better emotional regulation.

In your busy day, when you are in that sympathetic stress state, beta brainwave state, the idea...

The idea of stopping, it's not even going to come to you.

because of the way that your body is wired in that state.

It's not about stopping.

It's about getting stuff done.

So you have to tether the practice to something.

So an example would be you do it in the breathing flow in bed before you get up in the morning.