Breathwork for entrepreneurs

“The breath is the steering wheel of the nervous system... it literally is grabbing your nervous system by the steering wheel and guiding it in the direction you want it to go in. So if I need more focus, there's a breath for that. If I need more strength, there's a breath for that.”

The Doctor of the Future Is You with Sachin Patel · 37:26· listen →

“You'll notice that your resting heart rate— it's measurable— your resting heart rate will drop by about 10 points after doing 2, 3 minutes of this breathing, which is like amazing if you think about it. It's faster than taking a Xanax.”

Dr. Mao Shing Ni on Energy, Qi, and Longevity Secrets · 33:53· listen →

“The reason we don't take breathwork seriously is because we call it breathwork when in fact it's respiratory physiology. And if we could just understand that it's respiratory physiology and this is real and not woo, people would get more out of it perhaps.”

Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 45:27· listen →

“My favorite regimen because it's very easy and simple, I have 2 of them that I use in my practice, is the 5-5-7 breathing. And, that's in for 5, hold for 5, out for 7, 3 times, 3 times a day is how I usually start people.”

From Survival to Strength: Breathwork & Resilience · 24:30· listen →

“So intermittent hypoxia is the magic of breathwork. When you hold your breath for 60 to 90 seconds, you invoke a positive state, a positive stress on the body, and it creates an adaptive change to having less oxygen in the body.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 9:45· listen →

“When you hold your breath, right, for a long enough time, we create intermittent hypoxia and you reduce the oxygen supply to that mitochondria. You will make that mitochondria wake up and go, oh my God, I'm running out of oxygen. I need to do a spring clean.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 13:00· listen →

“The idea of hormetic stress is consciously and intentionally inducing stressors in order to make adaptations. If you think about it in simple terms, it's what happens when you really strength train. When you lift weights, you're inducing a stressor to the muscles and to the fascia. There's a bit of inflammation because of that, and then you get stronger.”

Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 23:27· listen →

“3 minutes of deep breathing, strong, and you have to focus on it a bit, it can't be very passive, followed by a maximal voluntary breath hold increased circulating human growth hormone in the blood by up to 550% a half hour after that was done.”

Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 37:45· listen →

“Fight or flight is for we're in danger. Like, fight or flight is tiger chasing me and I'm gonna die. Like, that's what fight or flight is for. Fight or flight is not for everyday living. And that's why we're seeing the high amounts of anxiety.”

From Survival to Strength: Breathwork & Resilience · 16:46· listen →

“So somebody honks their horn at you in traffic, you have a test at school that you're stressing out about, you're fighting with your spouse, right? It takes nothing to make that fight-or-flight response go.”

From Survival to Strength: Breathwork & Resilience · 18:26· listen →

“We have nociceptors that are threat receptors. Touch a hot pan, threat receptors take the information, the threatening heat, danger. That sends the signal afferently to the brain, and really through the spinal cord and the brainstem. The brain then makes processes and makes a decision on the pain perception to come back out.”

Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 8:44· listen →

“The responses were as profound or more profound than the kind of psychedelic insights you get, um, like oneness, connection, feeling like you've been channeled by God and all that stuff, as you would from a big dose of psychedelics.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 15:31· listen →

“When you hold it to as long as I was saying, intermittent hypoxia, you produce ADOSE. ADOSE standing for anandamide, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins. So this makes you feel naturally high.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 30:37· listen →

“We need to be very agile how we navigate in those times. To be agile, we need to be in that growth mindset, in that abundant mindset. So the framework helping me to pause, observe, and decide, that framework, if I practice it, I enter quickly into the abundance mindset and get out of the fear of the survival mindset.”

Conscious Leadership: Deciding from Presence, Not Fear · 5:46· listen →

“The first practice is the morning routine. What do you do when you start the day? Okay? And if we start by starting the day, it starts with making sure that you have a moment of silence, 5 minutes of silence. You can pray, you can meditate, you can contemplate, whatever you want. But start the journey by doing something in silence.”

Conscious Leadership: Deciding from Presence, Not Fear · 31:15· listen →

“My recommendation for anyone that is experiencing those things is first shake out your body, like completely shake everything out. You can even go through some tapping, through some stretching, move your body, do like a little like 5-minute yoga flow.”

Burnout as a Mirror: Karenna Soto on Somatic Healing · 31:15· listen →

“It was in 2010 I got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called ulcerative colitis, and that's what left me housebound for almost a year, shitting blood like 40 times a day. It was hell.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 2:20

“I had shown up and fixed this exact problem I was having for so long here in Central New York, but I fixed it for everybody else. And I was very much building, the founder of a startup company, and I was not prioritizing building a support system for myself and making sure that my own social-emotional needs were being met by the people around me.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 5:46

“The beauty of events is that if your guests didn't plan the event, they don't know what's wrong. So, if something goes wrong, just cover it up with a smile and ask for forgiveness if you have to. At that point, there's nothing you can do.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 10:19

“If I don't move every day in one way or another, things get bad, so I always make that a huge priority.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 14:12

“I eat the same thing every day. For the most part, like down to a T. And that might sound like a little much, but honestly, it's made my life significantly easier and less stressful.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 19:55

“As a leader, as an entrepreneur, you're constantly having to make quick decisions all day long. You're having to solve everyone's problems. And it's just nice to have one less problem to solve.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 23:28

“There's just something so therapeutic about getting your thoughts out on paper and just leaving them there, you know, and not letting yourself ruminate on anything. It's been huge for me.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 30:07

“None of it matters if the relationships in our lives don't feel good. So that's something that I'm very proud of, that I can say that I've made that a priority.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 35:19

“It really is simply an invitation for us to see within ourselves where we're not honoring our unique capacity or where we have the opportunity to mature.”

Burnout as a Mirror: Karenna Soto on Somatic Healing · 1:34

“We are the life source of our business, right? We are the thing that gives it pulse. And if we're not taking care of ourselves, then that's, then what's the point, right? That this thing that we're creating, we won't be able to sustain it.”

Burnout as a Mirror: Karenna Soto on Somatic Healing · 5:30

“The lion chases the giraffe and the giraffe is running away and gets away. They immediately do this huge body shake and then they go back into rest and digest.”

Burnout as a Mirror: Karenna Soto on Somatic Healing · 25:16

“The challenging question that I ask a lot of entrepreneurs or people that are dabbling in their habits, I'm like, do you wanna waste 2, 3, 4 years down the line? I'm like, time is everything.”

Burnout as a Mirror: Karenna Soto on Somatic Healing · 29:34

“I was driving to work a couple of days ago and I saw a bald eagle and it was sitting at the very top of this very tall tree. And the wind was howling that day. It was just blowing and the snow was blowing and it was just this storm. And this eagle had its face up facing the wind on this, and it was just sitting there letting the storm beat it to death, just perfectly content.”

From Survival to Strength: Breathwork & Resilience · 13:09

“But I thought about that as these women were answering it. And I was like, you know, I am where I am right now. Like, I can't change it. Like, I can't change it. And so I'll say, no, I can't change it. I wouldn't change it.”

From Survival to Strength: Breathwork & Resilience · 39:57

“It said grief is like glitter. And if anybody's had kids or had glitter around, you know what it is, but it's like having glitter all over you and like you clean it up, but it's still in your hair and on your ears and on your skin.”

From Survival to Strength: Breathwork & Resilience · 41:15

“It's the same thing. You're already signaling to your brain in a very hardline way how you want to go forward as you get up.”

Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 43:04

“Okay, we want to achieve something, but who says we will achieve it? We decided. Okay, it's a game. So the moment I understand and come a little bit more relaxed about that, it's a game. So let's play the game the best we can. Then I become agile, then I see the waves, and then I can adjust whatever needs to be adjusted in the moment.”

Conscious Leadership: Deciding from Presence, Not Fear · 20:26

“In the evening, in the evening is journal. Journal things that were what you did well, and especially express gratitude towards yourself and towards the people that you had that show you did something or you received something. And by doing this act of gratitude, it increases our sense of self-worth, it increases our happiness.”

Conscious Leadership: Deciding from Presence, Not Fear · 35:30

“Big Joy is all about realizing that we're born for joy and not for deficits. Most of the leaders, most of the souls, most of the amazing people we work with have been taught somewhere in their journey that they're going to have to perform some version of perfection that I never figured out.”

Dr. Jax Black: Redefining Success Through Joy · 4:07

“There's no cliff in your soul. There's no high-performing athlete, right? If that's the example a lot of people understand as an athlete, there's no high-performing athlete who's running their fastest, jumping their highest, throwing their best right off of a cliff in their soul. No, no, no. There's no cliff. They have actually hit a zone of joy where they have whole body alignment.”

Dr. Jax Black: Redefining Success Through Joy · 18:58