Michael Breus

And then the natural sleep process kicks in because your heart rate has gone lower and you're good.

It does seem automatic.

And here's the thing is, is it really helping you?

So as an example, another thing that I noticed, and maybe you could tell me if this happens to you as well, when I'm really concentrating on something like reading an email, I don't breathe.

Like I sit there and I'm reading, reading, reading.

And before I know it, if it's a long email, I'm like, and I have to breathe.

So a lot of people, when they focus and concentrate during the day, they actually forget to breathe.

And that's an important factor.

And then the other thing that I've noticed during daytime breathing that a lot of people don't have a tendency to do is when I tell somebody to take in a deep breath, when they breathe in, if their shoulders rise,

That means that they're actually not using their abdomen.

They're using their thorax to breathe.

And so what I try to teach them to do is to breathe wide, not up.

Now, what do I mean by that?

When you breathe, you don't want your shoulders to rise.

What you want is when you take a big, deep breath,

You want to feel your belly expand almost like it's a horizontal breath versus a bringing up your shoulders breath.

And again, these are different things that you can do during the day.

Now, you're probably sitting here saying, well, Michael, when would I do that?

Why would I do that?

This seems kind of like...