Dr. Brennan Spiegel

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · The Hidden Reason You Feel Exhausted & How to Feel Better Now · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

We had thousands and thousands of people come before us that somehow survived generation after generation by not falling down.

So we know from so many traditions that breathing is a grounding mechanism.

What do we mean by a grounding?

We're talking about the ground.

We're talking about gravity today.

You're becoming grounded.

We use that term kind of metaphorically, but it's a literal one.

When you breathe in slowly and you regulate your breath, you're regulating that vagus nerve we talked about before, which is the long winding nerve, the longest nerve in the body that connects your brain to all of your inner organs, the gut that we've talked a lot about, the heart.

And it releases serotonin in the brain and in the body.

When you slow down and regulate, what you're doing is you're going from a more fight or flight mode to a rest and digest mode.

And that is grounding physically and mentally.

So breathing is a big part of that, doing these gravitational breathing exercises.

Yeah, sure.

So what you can imagine, first of all, is kind of sit up.

That upper shoulder, kind of keep yourself, but you don't need to get all tense.

And you can start by just feeling your body sink into the chair.

Okay.

But rather than thinking about it as being pulled down, think about it like you're being pushed up.

Because what physicists talk about is gravity is actually an upward acceleration.

It's not a downward pull.

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