Zen Brain:Exploring Mindfulness, Technology, and Authentic Living
How to Get High Naturally: Mastering Breath Retention
09 Aug 2021
In this episode of the Zen Brain Podcast, the host discusses how to get high naturally by holding your breath. To do this, you first need to master the technique of rhythmic breathing. Once you have done this, you can then move on to holding your breath. To do this, you start by breathing in and then holding your breath for eight counts. This place between inhaling and exhaling is where most people have experienced the most profound alterations of consciousness. After a while, it is as if you forgot to breathe. You feel your skin almost start to make up for the fact that the lungs stop breathing. You also feel your blood circulating through your body in a different kind of way. The trick isn't to take one breath and hold it, but to breathe deeply for a while and just to hold the last in the series of your inhalations. Timestamps 0:00:01 How to Get High Naturally: Breath Retention Highlights You also feel your blood circulating through your body in a different kind of way, and breath retention itself is extremely advanced pranayama techniques. You can practice this outside of class as long as you gentle and effortless with yourself.
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