Yeah, and often that's simply down to bad habits, isn't it? We get locked into these, you know, bad habitual states of going, this is just how I react when this happens or this is the only way I could possibly think about this situation. Yeah. And I think, you know, if you find that thing like you have with meditating or whatever it might be and also perhaps being somewhere like Bali, which is, you know, a very sort of, well, much more untouched than where we live in terms of nature, being in that sort of environment probably would help all of us, even if you just go into your local park to have that expansion of your mind and be able to, I guess see things from a different angle, because sometimes we're scared to do that, because we think then again we're losing control, but actually you're not, you're letting go and actually giving yourself a chance to find a bit of peace, I guess.

Exactly. And also, just like you said about control, I think sometimes we cling on to thought because it's the thing that we do have control over it and it's sometimes comforting to have this kind of narrative in your head all the time, because, you know, it's a false illusion of control, but once you let it go, you realize there's just something so much more beautiful for you to have. So yeah, I'd encourage everyone to try and meditate even just a little bit.

As soon as I kind of find the joys of breathing correctly, you

know, it's so important to get into it every day, and someone says something interesting, because then we've said a quality of life, this quality of breath, you know, every breath you have to treat as if, you know, it's your first and last. So even if you take just a few seconds to deepen your breath, I feel, I just feel instantly better. So I try and do like breathing exercises every day, and also with singing, even in the warm ups, there's a lot of breathing, and again, it puts you in like a peaceful mind frame, as well as being good for singing, it's great just to just to relax, and do breathing properly. I think sometimes you can go through a full day, shallow breathing without knowing, and you're wondering, why do I feel anxious? Why am I worried? And if you just slow down a little bit, it's yet as simple as just breathing a bit

deeper. And you know, before I learned anything about breathing techniques, because I've been learning quite a lot about transformational breath, which has been really game changing for me, but before I started looking into the world of breathing, I realized that a lot of the time when I'm nervous or anxious, I'm not even shallow breathing, I hold my breath, I don't even know how I survive it, I kind of will hold my breath for like a minute. And it wasn't until I started thinking about it, I was like, that's my bad habit that I go to, and I kind of cognitively worked out. When I'm holding my breath, what I think I'm doing is stopping any possible danger, like I'm pausing, I've pressed pause on life, like hold my breath and now nothing bad can happen. And it's funny when you start to look into your own bad habit, had you noticed that you were doing anything incorrectly or anything that was hindering your state of peace breath wise?

Yeah, I mean, absolutely, I did the same like holding your breath, and especially when you're getting a bit more like if I'm about to go on stage, you'll kind of realize your breath is either getting shallow or you're holding it. It's interesting you say that because I've been thinking a lot about the kind of illusion of what we think we have control over, even to a point of, you know, if time doesn't really exist and it's just kind of a marker for us of, you know, the sun, really our only marker of time and life is breath. So sometimes we, you know, slow it down so that hopefully we can, you know, live a bit longer or we speed it up so we can get through something faster. But really, if we just take time to make sure each breath is of quality, then what kind of living at the pace we should be in each step is the pace it should be. You know, you can't speed up breath. That's something I've realized, you just have to let it go. And I think relinquishing that control makes me relax as well. So it's hard to remember though, especially in the city when everything's so fast and obviously the air is more polluted.