Nsima Inyang

Because a lot of people, without realizing it, when they go to pick something off the ground, they'll hold their breath to do so.

I mean, when you think about when you injure yourself.

Tying your shoes.

Tying your shoes, you hold your breath.

You should be able to breathe through these things.

Why are you holding your breath?

You're holding your breath because you have this tension response to bending and movement, which you shouldn't have.

And when you do have these types of responses, what ends up happening is your body guards itself.

When you hold your breath,

it's harder to move fluidly, right?

So your body, when you go and you pick that thing up, you hold your breath because you don't feel comfortable creating spinal flexion to pick the thing up, right?

But if you then start building the habit of inhale when I go down and pick it up, exhale when I come up, when I'm pooping, right?

Instead of .

bearing down and pushing, can I exhale, like inhale, right?

Exhale, relax the muscles of my sphincter and just let it come out.

We talked about this with Gil Hedley and it'll sound weird, but even when you're defecating, realizing how much tension you're holding down here,

Because you push.

That is not supposed to be something where you push.

It's a natural reaction, but it causes unnecessary stress when doing so.

If you're taking a shit, you don't have-