Speaker 1: Hey, there are thanks for joining me on another solo
Speaker 1: episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians Today. Today, I want to
Speaker 1: talk to you about the power of the outbreath. You
Speaker 1: can say, the outbreath actually saved me, and it's a
Speaker 1: it's a powerful lesson for me, and I think I
Speaker 1: hope that someone out there might benefit from this as well.
Speaker 1: So I guess to start, I just want to ask
Speaker 1: you if you feel like, have you ever hit a
Speaker 1: point where you're you're so drained, like so completely worn
Speaker 1: out that even the act of brushing your teeth feels
Speaker 1: like running a marathon, pill like in flip flops while
Speaker 1: carrying emotional baggage. Well, that's that's been me lately the
Speaker 1: past few weeks. I honestly have been running on fumes.
Speaker 1: Every morning, I'm finding I'm having to drag myself out
Speaker 1: of bed. It's honestly, it's felt like a battle against
Speaker 1: gravity and my own resistance to the daily grind. Like
Speaker 1: I've been so burnt out, so burnt out, so tired,
Speaker 1: so exhausted that I just find it so challenging to
Speaker 1: even get up out of bed every morning. And I
Speaker 1: know what the cure is. I know that all I
Speaker 1: need to recharge, to get rid of the burnout is
Speaker 1: to go sit on a Caribbean beach somewhere, having drinks
Speaker 1: brought to me by a wonderful server while I have
Speaker 1: an amazing book in my hand, and I do nothing
Speaker 1: but just drink in the sun and the vitamin rich
Speaker 1: just power of the energies around that particular scenario. That's
Speaker 1: really what feeds my soul. I was born on an island,
Speaker 1: so it just that's what I need. And it's been
Speaker 1: a very very very long time since I have had that,
Speaker 1: so things I've been building up. Every vacation that I've
Speaker 1: taken has something has come up where I've just not
Speaker 1: been able to relax. Last vacation, those of you who
Speaker 1: have heard the show for a while remember that I
Speaker 1: broke my ankle when I went to Europe. So it's
Speaker 1: been it's been challenging not sharing this with you to
Speaker 1: give you a woe is Me story, but rather to
Speaker 1: kind of level set how I've been feeling so that
Speaker 1: this episode, this story hopefully resonates with you. All that
Speaker 1: being said, there was a point a couple of days
Speaker 1: ago where I reached my limit, my point of breaking
Speaker 1: something inside me actually cracked, not in a breakdown kind
Speaker 1: of way, more like a like a pressure valve finally
Speaker 1: giving out. And I found myself just letting out a sound.
Speaker 1: Actually it was more than a sound. It was a scream.
Speaker 1: It even surprised me. Actually it wasn't planned, it wasn't theatrical,
Speaker 1: it was it was just like this. I had reached
Speaker 1: my limit and I let out a raw, primal, just scream,
Speaker 1: loud enough to startle myself even Well, here's while a part.
Speaker 1: I felt a little better, not fixed, not healed, but better.
Speaker 1: So I did it again, and I found myself just
Speaker 1: letting out the primal scream at the top of my
Speaker 1: lung is just every energy inside me, just aha, going
Speaker 1: out into the atmosphere. And when I finished that, I
Speaker 1: felt even a little bit better. So I did it
Speaker 1: again and again and again until I was literally out
Speaker 1: of breath, when I couldn't scream anymore. Suddenly it hit me,
Speaker 1: that is the power of the outbreath. Now. I know
Speaker 1: it sounds like the kind of thing you'd find printed
Speaker 1: on a mug, got a yoga retreat or something like that.
Speaker 1: But stay with me, this this wasn't about deep, quiet,
Speaker 1: serene breaths. It was about expelling, releasing, letting God loudly, messily, cathartically,
Speaker 1: like I let everything go. Every little bit of my
Speaker 1: energy was involved. It was in that out breath, and
Speaker 1: I felt better. I felt better. Well. I did some
Speaker 1: research after that, and it turns out that even modern medicine,
Speaker 1: while it doesn't always buy into the whole healing power
Speaker 1: breath thing. Well, when you think, when they still tell
Speaker 1: us to take a deep breath before sticking us with
Speaker 1: something sharp or unpleasant, right now, why is that? I
Speaker 1: think it's because somewhere deep in our biology, breath equals comfort, control,
Speaker 1: maybe even hope. Instinctively, we inhale before the pain, and
Speaker 1: we exhale to release it. It's not just a distraction, though,
Speaker 1: That is how modern medicine is using the breath. It's okay,
Speaker 1: take a deep breath and then bam, right, it's a
Speaker 1: distraction of what's happening. But what happened is when we inhale,
Speaker 1: we tense up because we know pain's coming. But when
Speaker 1: we exhale, we're able to release a lot of that
Speaker 1: pent up anxiety and it helps us with the pain.
Speaker 1: Think about it in ancient Greek theater. There literally was
Speaker 1: a chorus built into every tragedy whose job was to wail, moan,
Speaker 1: and grieve for the audience. They were there to let
Speaker 1: the emotion out for you, so you didn't have to
Speaker 1: carry it alone. Today we have therapy. Back then they
Speaker 1: had primal group sighing, And honestly, I kind of get
Speaker 1: it now. When I hit my limit the other day,
Speaker 1: my breath became like the pressure valve, a stopgap, a
Speaker 1: sacred scream, not a cure, but a moment of release
Speaker 1: until I can get to that beach and truly unplug.
Speaker 1: So today, if you're carrying something heavy, why not trying.
Speaker 1: You don't have to scream in the middle of your
Speaker 1: office unless your coworkers are actually really chill. But try first, sighing, moan,
Speaker 1: whimper if you have to. But let that breath move
Speaker 1: through you like it's got somewhere to go. Because it
Speaker 1: does breath, It connects us to the present. It's the
Speaker 1: bridge between our frantic minds and our buried feelings. It's
Speaker 1: the quiet whisper that says you're still here. So let's
Speaker 1: try this. Go ahead and stand by a window and
Speaker 1: stare out into the distance like you're in a dramatic
Speaker 1: indie film. You're just looking out over the horizon. Now,
Speaker 1: notice your first few shallow breaths. Don't judge them, just
Speaker 1: notice them. Now. When you take your next fuel breaths,
Speaker 1: let them be a little deeper, more natural, almost like
Speaker 1: your body's sighing for you. I'll go ahead and let
Speaker 1: your mind wander, let it spill into the emptiness inside you.
Speaker 1: Don't expect fireworks, don't expect clarity. Just breathe, Just breathe.
Speaker 1: Allow that outbreath to come out in a heavy sigh.
Speaker 1: Allow the energy to be connected to that outbreath. Let
Speaker 1: all your tension, all your frustrations, connect to that outbreath,
Speaker 1: and exhale it out as if you were ejecting an
Speaker 1: old cassette tape. Bio. I just dated myself, I realized that.
Speaker 1: But you'll be amazed how powerful it is. In Sanskript,
Speaker 1: breath is called prana. In Greek it's pneuma. Both mean
Speaker 1: life force, and whether you're howling at the moon or
Speaker 1: you're simply sighing into your steering wheel, that breath might
Speaker 1: just be the soul's way of whispering you got this,
Speaker 1: and hey, if all else fails. If that soft sighing, breathing,
Speaker 1: whimpering doesn't work for you, then scream it. Scream it out,
Speaker 1: let it out. Go in the middle of a field
Speaker 1: somewhere and scream it out loud and proud, because hey,
Speaker 1: you are not broken, You are breathing, and you need
Speaker 1: to allow these tensions to come out of you. And
Speaker 1: I found that there is no better way to do
Speaker 1: that than to let it out with my breath. It's
Speaker 1: not just a breathe out. Remember, it's an attaching of
Speaker 1: the emotions into that outbreath. We have it for a reason, folks,
Speaker 1: Go ahead and use it. Don't be afraid. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and scream out and allow yourself to calm the luxury
Speaker 1: of accepting the tensions, accepting what you're going through, and
Speaker 1: accepting the fact that you need to let it out.
Speaker 1: So do it. Let it out. If this works for you,
Speaker 1: if you try it and all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: primal screams that you let out do help you in
Speaker 1: some way, I would really love it if you reach
Speaker 1: out and you let me know. I know, I know
Speaker 1: that I'm not the only one. There's so much going
Speaker 1: out on in the world right now that there's so
Speaker 1: much pressure building inside each and every one of us.
Speaker 1: We have to find a way to release it. And
Speaker 1: this is one way that I found that worked for me.
Speaker 1: So if you're out there and it works for you,
Speaker 1: please let me know. I'd love to know that I'm
Speaker 1: not the only crazy person out in the middle of
Speaker 1: a field screaming. All right, I really appreciate you sitting
Speaker 1: through my little escapade. I guess for lack of a
Speaker 1: better word, and I don't want you to worry. I
Speaker 1: am feeling better. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: aren't we all just humans going through spiritual awakenings. Well,
Speaker 1: let's help each other. If you have gone through this
Speaker 1: and you want to let me know, add it to
Speaker 1: the comments below, or send me a voicemail. Go to
Speaker 1: Skeptic midposition dot com. Leave me a voicemail there, let
Speaker 1: me know how this helped you, how this worked, and
Speaker 1: maybe we'll just do an entire episode of people just
Speaker 1: expressing the wonderfulness of the outbreath. All right, that's it
Speaker 1: for today. Thanks so much for listening, and see you
Speaker 1: on the next one. Remember to breathe out