James Nestor

And exhaling.

Do you feel any different breathing that way?

So if you were able to shift your nervous system,

to become more relaxed, clear your thoughts, get more oxygen.

In 20 seconds, we did that.

Imagine if you had 20 hours of breathing this way or 20 days or 20 weeks or 20 years.

what would happen to even your metabolism, to your ability to sleep better, to your ability to function better.

I'm not saying you need to be breathing this slowly all the time.

This is a training exercise, right?

So it's,

a bit extreme in how slow it is, but after breathing this way, if you do it for long enough, just a few minutes a day, your body slowly becomes habituated to become more comfortable breathing more slowly and more deeply.

So maybe if you were breathing at 15 breaths a minute, after a few weeks or a few months, you might be breathing at 10 breaths a minute.

That will make such an enormous difference throughout the day.

The more conscious you become of it, the more you start doing it, the easier it is.

to become your unconscious default.

So you don't want to go around thinking about breathing all day.

Who wants to do that?

But if you train yourself, just like if you train yourself to eat better, that will become the thing that you default to when you're not thinking about it.

And that's the key behind all this stuff.

What I would suggest people do, if you're actually interested in doing this, set an alarm on your phone twice a day.