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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What breathing techniques can help with relaxation?
Yeah, yeah. He understands it. The spirits touch him. Do you know what I mean? He gets it. And when he's speaking, he's on a spiritual crusade with music. And he's trying to share this. We call it the holy well. He calls it that as well. This power that's in your heart and in your belly. And sometimes when we're a bit down or we're a bit low or the negative thoughts or the demons are in the head.
What I used to think when I was younger, when I go to Thailand, I'll figure it out. That's where all the kind of hipsters go. They figured it out. Or if I go to India, I'll figure it out. So I went to Thailand and I went to India and I went to these places where it brought my head with me. And then I realized there's something like penny drop.
The 12 inches or whatever amount of space from the head to the heart. That's the most important trip you'll ever take. And his songs are about getting to that holy well and drawing that out. You become very powerful when you're in there, do you know what I mean?
You can feel that at his shows, can't you? The mass of Damo.
Yeah. Yeah, what a show. No, it is. It's palpable. You can feel it. You're like, oh, there's something happening here. You know what I mean? And it's every single person has given it their all beside you and they're singing their heart out. And you can tell that each individual has their own unique story related to the song that's being sang on the stage. You know what I mean? It's not just like,
We're all going to sing Wonderwall because we know Wonderwall. It's like, no, the reason why I like this Damien Dempsey song is because it takes me to this moment in my life when I first heard it or I relate to this person who I think he's singing about or applies to this situation in my life. And you can tell it's so personal to each person. Yeah.
Like, the first gig we went to, tell you, everyone knew every word to every song. You know what I mean? There wasn't a piss break song. You know what I'm trying to say?
There's always a break and I said, I'll go to the bar, I'll go with Jackson. There was none of that.
And I was like, fuck. And it was just 100 miles an hour and he brought everybody up, he brought them back down and he brought them back up again and everyone was, he had everyone in the palm of his hand. And he just, you could tell he loved it. You know what I mean? I don't mean as in he had everyone on strings. He wasn't a puppet master, but it's like he was leading the orchestra.
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Chapter 3: How does Seamus Reynolds define mindfulness?
So that's the YouTube thing if people want to look it up. There's another fella in England that's using the same name. He's banging videos out the whole time. So my one is the kickboxing yogi and you'll see the big bald head there.
Yeah, brilliant. That's going to be powerful stuff. I think so, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even on that, do you ever hear of a group of rappers out in Ballymun working class record lads? Costello and all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So after that thesis, I ended up doing a postgrad and I did it on the working class records, lads. And yeah, because I was mad into the kind of... Just local music. Yeah, and the hip hop and all.
I kind of started kind of with the guitar, doing a bit of rapping and all, do you know what I mean?
Chapter 4: What inspired Seamus to become a breathwork coach?
Back in the day. And I loved it. And I just loved seeing lads from certain backgrounds expressing themselves. And the sixth element of hip hop is knowledge. Do you know what I mean? People know about the breakdancing, they know about the kind of emceeing, they know about the graffiti art. But the fifth element, I said sixth, the fifth element is knowledge.
And then you see these lads talking about knowledge of self, knowing about your place, knowing how you arrived here. Just like opening that third eye, I was mad drawn to that. I was like, these are deadly. So yeah, Costello, he's like the guy I admired a lot. Who else is out there? Lunatic was a rapper out there that passed away that they all kind of... G.I.
and Will.A.Lee and Dean Scurry and all them kind of lads are out there. Like it was Dame who put me away to them at the time. Yeah, I see it now like Versatile and other Irish rappers that are...
back then it was like pure you were doing it you'd be doing it in a dublin accent all people be slagging you over it like yeah and uh it's changed now thank god yeah well song is great shame is you have a great energy about you we're gonna jump into a breathing technique yes sir if you want yeah we jump into that yeah yeah we can see what happens and we'll have a chat about after
I don't know how this is going to translate for the listener, right? But what we'll try and do is we'll try and learn through doing. And if they want to do it at home, the only thing I'll say is don't do it if they're lying in water, if they're in the bath listening to you boys or anything like that. I hope not though. The candle's lit and all. Yeah, a few Yankee candles.
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Chapter 5: How did Seamus meet Damien Dempsey?
But if they're in a bath, like, and then the other thing is like, because I've seen you as boys are fit. I watched you do a 5K in under 20 minutes recently.
Yeah.
That's impressive, Rob.
I don't think I'd do it now, but... But that's like, that's high level, Roman. No, no, it wasn't. It was about a month ago, and I haven't really ran much since then. No, it is high level.
That's high level.
It is high level, no joke. Yeah, no, and it was tough. I'm not going to be like, oh, yeah, bang, there, I didn't. I went to the depths of it.
Yeah, so I'm a plotter. I'd say my 5k would be about 26 minutes, that type of... 25, 26, 27, 28, 30... I'm a plotter, so when I watched that, I was like, wow, you know, if I tried to keep up with you running, I'm going to end up in the ditch. I have a funny story. I did another one of them documentaries. You had a fella on here, Ken O'Driscoll.
So I did a documentary of him a while ago out in Cherry Orchard. And he did a load of the ogre and the breeding. And then we went out running, right? And I did the interview running with him, and he's a runner. That man can run. Yeah, he's a big engine. So we're running. We nailed it. We're going in and out around Sherry Orchard, and everyone's beeping.
And it was just like, this is going to be great. And you know, in your head, you're like, this is going so well and all. I loved it. We're running for about an hour. Asked everything. He was going into a story. He always had a monster. You know, it's a powerful story, you know. And we arrived back, and then the girls, they were like, we never hit play.
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Chapter 6: What are the benefits of breathwork for anxiety?
take a notice or take note of where they're at right now and the head might be going fast it might be going slow you put one hand on your heart and then you just take a deep breath in through your nose all the way to your belly for four hold it for a second and then slow out the mouth for six in for 4, hold for 2 and out for 6 one more in for 4 hold for 2 and out for 6
As you do one more yourself, big breath in for four. Hold for two. Slow out the mouth for six. I want you to witness the sensations in your shoulders as your face relaxes. Start to bring the awareness down into the heart. A big part of today's practice is getting out of the head and into the heart, down into the holy well. One more at your own pace. Taking that deep breath in.
Following the air down to the belly. Holding it for two. And then as you exhale, just let go of anything that doesn't serve you. Just relax then. Just relax. Well done. Another technique that's very good if you're feeling a bit tense is 4-7-8. So this time we're going to breathe in for 4 again, nice and deep. We're going to hold it for 7 this time. And then we're going to slowly let it out for 8.
Chapter 7: How can breathwork aid in recovery from addiction?
So together we empty the lungs. Big breath in for 4. Hold it for 7. Out the mouth for eight. Again, big breath in for four. Hold for seven. That's it. And you can relax there. So a big part of this kind of breathing is just taking control of the breath. Think about a kid. When a kid is frightened or gets nervous, the breath gets very rapid, you know? So you're trying to calm the breath down.
If anyone has kids that do get into a little state of panic, ask them to smell flowers. No, you can't smell it. Can you not see it? And they're using their imagination. Can you not see it? Smell it, smell it. And then blow out a candle. Or do you know the big clown balloons, the big long balloons? You get them to try and blow up the balloon. Come on, come on.
Because if you can control the exhale, for a long the inhale will take care of itself so stretchy balloon or candle and flowers for the little ones you know yeah so that one there is just to slow it down if you're feeling nervous another thing you can do is 4-4-4-4 so you're just in for 4 hold for 4 out for 4 and what not it's the box isn't it The box breathing. Exactly. Yeah.
And then I suppose. See I'd love to have it. Come to me session. Because if I had two hours with you. We'll go through the whole lot. You know what I mean. But given the time and stuff. Let's say that you've got the box. Four seven eight. Four two six. There are three decent ones. To calm yourself down. You know. At night. And the other thing. When you're doing it. Try to like.
How can I say this? We can imagine in our mind's eye anything, right? So someone was saying to me, well, like, I can't meditate. A lot of people say, I can't meditate. But like, what is real meditation? It's just coming back into the sea of consciousness or not using big language like that. Let's say it's just being aware.
So if you're lying there and your head is in a loop, but you're aware that your head is in a loop,
you're in a state of meditation it's the awareness is the essence of a meditation and then the head going fast is the experience right so when someone's lying there when they just become aware of it what you've done now is you've created separation between the awareness and the thought because if i say to you now purple elephant you can imagine a purple elephant and i can say to you a green man jockey and a purple elephant
You can imagine it. And now it's coming down the home straight in Ascot and it's about to win. How the fuck's a purple elephant going to win in Ascot? But it's going for it. It's going for it. It's going for it. And now the imagination is going, well, you can imagine anything, right? But on the flip side of that, sometimes the movie in the head is just playing and it's on loop.
It's like if you fall asleep with YouTube on and you wake up in the video, you started by watching the Talking Bollocks podcast and you wake up the next morning and it's some weird shit on the telly, right? Because the thoughts left to their own devices will go where they go.
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Chapter 8: What tips does Seamus give for preventing burnout?
And we were talking about, like you just said there, the Ferraris. And I said, imagine you had a Ferrari on the road and it did its fastest lap ever. And then the next one, it did a faster lap. And then the next one, it did a faster lap. Could that keep going indefinitely? And the mechanics were like, no, of course not. And I was like, why not?
And he's like, you'd have to refuel or change the tyres or...
you know calibrated and I don't know a lot about cars but I'm maxed out but I understood that much so imagine you're a high performing athlete or a podcaster and it's like right you don't need to be down but what's the difference between being really good or elite it's these different little small things like I saw the England football team I know we can slag them to bits and all but they've got a
I have a friend out in, that I work with now as well, Shane Pepperd, and he's a pure gentleman, and he coaches a lot of, he coaches a football team in Clondalkin, Castle Park, and last year, he managed Collinstown Under-18s, and I sponsored them for the year, and I basically was doing breeding before the matches, they won the league and all, but see when you're doing that breeding, and then you're lying down there, and you're tripping, then you kind of like, drop in, thoughts of like,
You're brilliant. What did Ali say? I am the greatest. I am the greatest. There's that time in America when he couldn't even sit in certain restaurants because of his skin colour. And he's putting his hands up saying, I am the greatest. I am. I am that I am. Well, when you're in that kind of...
translucent kind of trippy state you can plant seeds in there for yourself or someone else can put them in there like you're great you're healthy you're whatever you know so he's doing that with the footballers and a lot of kind of so to answer your question again why would you not just want to feel like if you're feeling good why would you not want to feel better if you're feeling bad why would you not want to feel less bad
Do you get me? Look, we all need to breathe.
Yeah.
Think about it. Did you ever go hiking? Yeah. Or did you ever go up a tall mountain? The air is lower at altitude. It's harder to exercise. Oh, no. I was in Peru. I was in Peru. Were you in Peru?
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