Breathing

But I want to give you more than just thoughts or ideas.

I want to leave you with a practical physical practice that you can use in your everyday life so you can reclaim your rage.

Because we just learned that anger gets trapped in our physical bodies and that anger causes illness.

So then we need a physical way to get the anger out.

In ancient yogic traditions, there's a powerful practice called Simhasana or the lion's breath.

That's what we will do today.

Now, I'm not talking about the polite, sanitized practice you might see in Western love and light yoga studios, where everyone is wearing pastel matching outfits.

This is different.

No.

Breath play, yeah, it's...

Mayor, I'll have to show you someday.

With the Pashmina, it gives you such control and perfect placement.

God, I forgot where we were.

Yeah.

Breath play definitely goes on.

Okay.

It's like the normal...

Breath wasn't coming.

I had to consciously make myself inhale, make myself exhale.

And so I was leaving, and I'm getting ready to pay my check, whatever, $7.

OK? And you are here.

What now? What is here now? So the breath.

Breath is here.

Breath you can see.

Breath you are aware.

Something watches breath.

That which watches breath, which is aware of breath, is that breathing also? What is aware of breath? So I say, nearer than breath even, Breath is a prana, the animating force of life.

So even prana ...

Where do you even begin to start? I try to breathe.

Breath has become so important to me.

Just like three solid deep breaths, inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth is like so grounding.

It's an equalizer.

Let's say health and beauty.

Someone can speed up the rate at which they age by arresting their breathing.

Breath trapped in the chest speeds up people's aging process.

Mm-hmm.

This is an ancient philosophy, and it's backed up by modern scientific study.

And so a lot of the labeling around it has been use this to fall asleep within two minutes, right? That magic number of two minutes.

And when I look at the ingredients, Shelby, you know, I see a lot of good recommendations in some ways where it's like, Breathe deeply.

Okay.

Relax your face and body.

Why is it valuable? Because it helps us understand who we are, our place in this world, and how to behave in a sort of organized, cohesive fashion that facilitates, that is pro-life, that really is facilitating life and vitality within us.

So if something has survived thousands of years, and is seen across the world, it's a pretty good bet that it's good for you, right? I would say music, these plant medicines, sleeping, sex, right? Like it's these basic things, the sun, right? Breath works.

You know, you see this in various traditions.

You can count on those.