Dr. Barry Baines

And then it has all these other medical implications, you know, blood pressure, sleep, but you kind of, you know, detailed it.

But, you know, cardiovascular risk, worsening just about every chronic disease affecting your immune system, etc.

And what I've

come to see because i do some many some meditation which is very easy and the number one thing is is the the breathing and again it doesn't take an hour uh to do that um and what it does in addition to calming you down it gives you a sense of control that you're purposely focusing in on this and it helps you to take control i am now country you know instead of

Because we breathe automatically, okay?

But to me, when you do meditative breathing, you very consciously, and again, closing your eyes is a good thing, taking a deep breath in, which would be much greater than what you would do when you're just doing your activity.

You're being conscious of it and slowly, you know, exhaling over a period of five to 10 seconds.

That's not how we breathe.

But as you do those kinds of things,

I mean, you literally can feel things just calm down.

And for me, it's extremely important.

And I think my first exposure to was probably when I was doing OB with women in labor.

And they were very much, let's say, didn't want to have a lot of pain problems.

drugs and things like that because of its impact on the on their baby things like that and a lot of the practices of breathing to get through the pain of labor is where i really saw the impact of that as as being like i'm really pretty pretty amazing something so simple and it's not weird that's the other thing is everybody talk meditation and people think about you know it's

zombies and things being weird.

And this is something that is very simple that all of us can do because it's just expanding on some of the things we do automatically, like breathing, like closing our, you know, closing our eyes.

And the sense of control, I think really helps you to gather yourself in a little bit and that calming down

um gives you a different perspective so that that's sort of my take on it i've seen how helpful it is in clinical practice um but personally uh for me doing you know i i wish i i do it every single day i don't but i do it more often than not and it's like it's a 10 minute sit in a comfortable chair um i like to play native american flute music by nakai and

just close my eyes and do that breathing.

And after you just feel so refreshed.