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#350 - James Nestor - Change Your Breath, Change Your Life

Modern Wisdom

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Can We Really Control Our Breathing?

The autonomic nervous system is called autonomic as in automatic, beyond our control. And yet we can immediately affect it and influence it by impacting and controlling our breathing. If you don't believe me, take an inhail to account about three, and then a very long excil to account about eight. Do that a few times and feel how your heart rate lowers. Right? Your blood pressures can likely go down as well. This is magical voodo stuff. No one would believe that we would have the ability to control this. But when you breathe in certain ways, you can control and influence all these different functions and even our organs. You can actually influence how you're digest

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