ANTI-STRESS BREATHWORK

I don’t know about you but I’m pretty fed up with all these stress-experts talking about the negative impact of stress on our health. Feeling stressed, anxious and worried is bad enough without an array of scientists telling me how dangerous it is 😅. It’s time to take effective action and to use stress to our advantage.

Trust me, I know what it’s like…

I was an anxious wreck for most of my life. I was first in therapy when I was 5 years old and in the following 30 years, I’ve struggled with fear, anxiety, and chronic stress. I was at some point even diagnosed with and medicated for a “panic disorder”. There were times when I could barely leave the house without having a panic attack.

Currently, however, my life is very intense with 3 small children (sleepless nights!), a fast-growing business to lead, and a large community to serve. My calendar is full months in advance with retreats and speaking engagements and my days are filled from morning to night with all my responsibilities and commitments. However, despite my hectic life, I don’t experience much stress anymore…apart from the kind of stress that I want.

Now you’re probably expecting me to say something like:

“ALL BECAUSE OF THIS ONE TRICK THAT FIXED IT ALL!”

Nope…that’s not how it works I’m afraid.

Let me be honest with you:

👉🏼 I don’t believe in quick fixes (/false promises).
👉🏼 I don’t think we should live boring lives just because “stress is bad”.
👉🏼 There is no 1 be-all-end-all solution for all of life’s struggles.

There are however a few core principles, that lead to some very powerful practices that can help you make a massive shift in the right direction.

During my times of anxiety and mental distress I was working as a science teacher in a school. I saw more and more kids get more and more stressed at a younger and younger age, and it pained me to see how universal this struggle was becoming.

From my perspective as a science teacher, I knew that there had to be some deeper laying principle and I was determined to find it. So I spent the past decade studying every relaxation technique, biohacking tool and esoteric discipline that I could find. I learned from and collaborated with some leading experts in the fields of meditation, breathwork, hypnosis, trauma and biohacking.

And here are 3 core principles that I learned:

1: what we experience as stress is our reaction to a set of (usually external) circumstances.

2: The quality of this reaction is determined by the state of our nervous system.

3: We can regulate the state of our nervous system with conscious interventions.

Are you beginning to see the formula here? 🧐

“but wait, shouldn’t I work to make life easier so that I have less stress?”

Absolutely not, that’s actually what I call…

that keeps the stress cycle alive

Society, (social) media, and commercials make us believe that if we improve our external factors, we will then live a happy, healthy and stress-free life. Which makes that most people chase these “better circumstances”, like a donkey chasing a carrot on a stick…

Stressing yourself with the illusion that you could finally relax if only…[fill in the blank]

Most people try to compensate this with unhelpful external fixes such as sugar, coffee, sleeping pills, binge-watching shows, endless scrolling on social media…

Or you could break through the negative pattern by changing your state of being from within.

BUT HOW DO YOU DO THAT?!🤨

(The answer is simpler than you think)

Now you may be thinking:

“I already am super good at breathing, I have been doing it my whole life!”

I obviously hear this joke every day 😅 and even though it is a good one, it is unfortunately being used as an argumentation to not do the work with your breath.
 

BUT IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, YOU’LL FIND 3 CONFRONTING TRUTHS IN THERE:

1: You have been doing it your whole life, so probably unconsciously

2: You are doing it unconsciously, therefore probably not optimally

3: If there is something that you have been doing your whole life, and you are literally dependent on it every single second…
isn’t it an idea to look into it consciously? 

Breathing is your most essential function, it provides you with life energy and it is intimately connected to how you feel every single moment throughout the day. 

CHANGE YOUR BREATH
CHANGE YOUR STATE OF BEING
CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Simple 😌

But unfortunately, as always, the simpler the principle, the harder it is to actually properly apply it. 

Especially because the field of breath is filled with misconceptions and hypes. 

Breathing exercises have been used for thousands of years for self-optimization…Sadly though, that ancient wisdom is often vailed in vague language, mystical principles and ultra spiritual baloney.

The past decades, a flux of scientific publications clearly shows how well it works. However, that science is unfortunately hidden underneath boring graphs, difficult words and scientific reductionism (the opposite of holism) which makes that the connection is hard to see.

This concise online program bridges the gap between ancient principles and scientific explanation.
Clear, simple and immediately applicable to your life.