James Nestor

Your body is going to start to shut down.

But you can go without food for how long?

40 days or something?

You can go without water for maybe a week and a half or so.

But if you go without breathing for a few minutes, you're gone.

So around 2,500 years ago, ancient Hindus were doing this and they believed that if you breathed in certain way, then you could get more prana, more life force into your body.

So they developed all of these crazy ways to breathe that we still do today in some classes.

The ancient Chinese at the same time

their practice of Qi Gong can be translated to breath work.

That's what it means or energy work.

And so these Qi Gong exercises were built on taking all the energy that's outside of us deep within us, right?

And concentrating it and using that energy to better our health.

So these things have been around for thousands and thousands of years and probably well before that, but that's the first written document, right?

That established how to breathe in certain ways to have certain benefits.

Yeah, there's a lot of things that should be taught at our schools, right?

Nutrition, exercise, like staying away from electronic devices at night.

So, but I would put, we talk a lot about that, right?

At least this is in the public consciousness right now, right?

So we're having these discussions.

Nobody's talking about breathing.