James Nestor
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Hold your breath, hold your breath, hold your breath, hold your breath.
Squeeze everything towards your stomach.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
You got five more seconds.
Five, four, three, two, one, let it go.
I feel relaxed.
Good.
What you did right there, this is a very short version.
It's better to have a longer amount of time.
We can go through the whole process.
It doesn't make for very good podcasts or radio, so we're not going to sit and listen to you be silent for 20 minutes breathing.
But the point of this is you're purposely stressing your body out.
You're taking control of your nervous system and you're cranking it up to 11 and you're compounding all of that stress.
Then you're releasing it.
So you're letting your body know and your brain know that you're in control of that stress.
You turn it on, you turn it off.
You turn it on, you turn it off.
What most of us do throughout the day is we have this chronic low-grade stress.
It's always there.
It's buzzing around.