Mark Divine

I wanted to help them succeed the way I did in SEAL training and to have a better career and be more focused and make better decisions in battle and to avoid PTSD and all those things.

And so I began to draw more or kind of like I would say equal parts from my Navy SEAL days with my yoga and martial arts training because I realized that the Eastern practices had a lot of tools and they were a developmental path for accessing greater power, almost 20x power and developing internal potential. Right. and integrating and being able to use your mind in a unique way or a better way.

And so I began to draw more or kind of like I would say equal parts from my Navy SEAL days with my yoga and martial arts training because I realized that the Eastern practices had a lot of tools and they were a developmental path for accessing greater power, almost 20x power and developing internal potential. Right. and integrating and being able to use your mind in a unique way or a better way.

And this is lacking in the West. There really isn't any developmental models that I'm aware of that didn't come from either the martial arts or yoga. There was some understanding of it philosophically through integral theory and transpersonal psychology and stuff like that, but there weren't any practices or paths, if you know what I mean, in the traditional sense.

And this is lacking in the West. There really isn't any developmental models that I'm aware of that didn't come from either the martial arts or yoga. There was some understanding of it philosophically through integral theory and transpersonal psychology and stuff like that, but there weren't any practices or paths, if you know what I mean, in the traditional sense.

And so, I looked at my own martial arts training and my own, I went deep into yoga and into teach, I've been to multiple teacher trainings. and was even developing our own yoga to teach to SEALs, which I, you know, had to really simplify and chunk it out into drills and discard any woo-woo, you know what I mean? I took the foo out of the Kung Fu and took the woo-woo out of the yoga to teach it.

And so, I looked at my own martial arts training and my own, I went deep into yoga and into teach, I've been to multiple teacher trainings. and was even developing our own yoga to teach to SEALs, which I, you know, had to really simplify and chunk it out into drills and discard any woo-woo, you know what I mean? I took the foo out of the Kung Fu and took the woo-woo out of the yoga to teach it.

And so, I came up with these skills. I call them – well, they line sort of with what the SEALs call the big four. But there's more than four, but the biggest and most powerful ones are – First is to develop control over your breath and to use your breath as a center post of your training, right? Because the breath is what will lead you to being in physiological control of your body.

And so, I came up with these skills. I call them – well, they line sort of with what the SEALs call the big four. But there's more than four, but the biggest and most powerful ones are – First is to develop control over your breath and to use your breath as a center post of your training, right? Because the breath is what will lead you to being in physiological control of your body.

And so the studies have now verified the power of breath control for stress management, stress release, and for triggering the parasympathetic nervous system to bleed off stress. So it's really, really healthy for you and healthy for your nervous system. But beyond that, The breath is a way to stay focused because after all, the brain is a organ of the body.

And so the studies have now verified the power of breath control for stress management, stress release, and for triggering the parasympathetic nervous system to bleed off stress. So it's really, really healthy for you and healthy for your nervous system. But beyond that, The breath is a way to stay focused because after all, the brain is a organ of the body.

And when your body is calmer, your brain is calmer. I mean, it's experienced subjectively as literally a lower brain, you know, cycle rate and you kind of an alpha beta when you're really calm. And it's healthier, right? And you're detoxing when you breathe deeply and cyclically and, you know, you don't have the choppy patterns associated with anxious emotional states.

And when your body is calmer, your brain is calmer. I mean, it's experienced subjectively as literally a lower brain, you know, cycle rate and you kind of an alpha beta when you're really calm. And it's healthier, right? And you're detoxing when you breathe deeply and cyclically and, you know, you don't have the choppy patterns associated with anxious emotional states.

So, the breath control is that first skill that I started teaching the SEAL candidates and that alone, and I call the practice box breathing, that alone had a profound impact on their ability to focus and remain clear in the heat of battle and that type of thing.

So, the breath control is that first skill that I started teaching the SEAL candidates and that alone, and I call the practice box breathing, that alone had a profound impact on their ability to focus and remain clear in the heat of battle and that type of thing.

And then I said, okay, so once I'm physiologically and physically in control and I'm clear headed and able to focus, then it's about creating the conditions in my mind so that I can stay focused on the right thing at the right time, stay focused on my teammates and stay focused on a positive outcome. Whereas, you know, the common individual will seize upon

And then I said, okay, so once I'm physiologically and physically in control and I'm clear headed and able to focus, then it's about creating the conditions in my mind so that I can stay focused on the right thing at the right time, stay focused on my teammates and stay focused on a positive outcome. Whereas, you know, the common individual will seize upon

you know, some, something that that's going wrong. And that could be like, I'm suffering because this sucks. Or, um, you know, I'm, I'm in pain or my, my back hurts, or I can't do this because it's too hard. I can't lift this 300 pound log up anymore.

you know, some, something that that's going wrong. And that could be like, I'm suffering because this sucks. Or, um, you know, I'm, I'm in pain or my, my back hurts, or I can't do this because it's too hard. I can't lift this 300 pound log up anymore.

There, there's always something, you know, whether it's physical or mental or something really practical, some challenge or crisis in your life, there's always something, right? Cause that's the human condition every day.