Dr. Martin Picard

Yeah, okay.

Good things have happened in the world.

The reason we both closed our eyes and kind of stopped moving our bodies, which is kind of what you do if you want to meditate or something like this, is because it turns off the noise.

And if you want to survive in a dangerous physical world, you need to be aware of stuff that might hurt you or kill you.

And feeling your body, like proprioception and all of this, needs to be very high level.

It needs to be prioritized over whatever interoceptive signal there are.

There's some interoceptive signal, that's what we'll feel into, that can overcome that.

But just not moving the body, closing your eyes, it kind of helps you to tune into your energy.

And I suspect there's a lot of value there.

Yes, yes.

So to do this, best is you're sitting comfortably and you can close your eyes if you want to.

I think that helps with the process.

We'll take one breath in and then we'll hold our breath for a little bit.

So breathing in.

Breathing out.

And you can breathe out all the way, all the way down and then hold that breath.

And for the first few seconds, it's generally not too uncomfortable.

But then as you hold this, feel into your body, to your belly, into your chest, into your head.

What's the effect of not breathing?

And then you start to feel maybe this urge to breathe and this desire to bring oxygen into your body, to your mitochondria.