WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:06.759 Weird things happened in the. 2 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:18.559 Weird, Weird Weird. 3 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:32.520 Welcome to a very very very special episode of Bledsoe said, So, 4 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:40.719 we are joined by my friend Dan breulea yeh, a 5 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:44.719 very luminous being. And I'll get into here in a 6 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:47.399 minute about how we met in that amazing experience. But Dan, 7 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:51.280 before I forget, could you let the listeners know your books, 8 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:53.520 your social media because I don't want to forget. I'd 9 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:55.679 like to kind of plant that seed in the beginning. 10 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:03.359 Uh yeah, Well, just Breathe Mastering breath Work for Success 11 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.799 and Lifelove, Business and Beyond by Simon and Schuster. It's 12 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.000 available on every good bookstores. We have an audible version 13 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:17.439 of it, and my website is Breathmastery dot com. So 14 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:20.519 it's hard to google Breathwork and not have my name 15 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:21.120 pop up. 16 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:26.799 Yeah, yeah, it's true. I'm so happy that you joined 17 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:29.439 our show. This is like really cool for me, and 18 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:31.040 I told you this in person, but just for the 19 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:34.159 sake of the listener, I'll run through this briefly. So 20 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:38.959 we met in Wisconsin at the Contact Modalities XPO, and 21 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:42.400 in full disclosure, my sister told me in advance that 22 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:44.560 you were going to be there and that you were 23 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:48.120 a really big deal in this space, and in my mind, 24 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:50.359 I was thinking, Okay, this guy Dan Brula is going 25 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:51.920 to be there. I have to meet this fella. 26 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:54.120 And it was the weirdest thing. 27 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:56.000 My dad did this pad and I didn't know what 28 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:57.959 you look like because I'm such a busy person. I 29 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:00.439 didn't look you up in advance. I was like, I'm 30 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:01.879 going to meet you there, you know what I mean. 31 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:05.799 My dad finished his panel, I walk out the door 32 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.000 and You're like right there speaking to us, and I 33 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:09.800 heard your name and you could probably attest to this. 34 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:13.199 I freaked out, Oh my god, it's you. I wanted 35 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:14.560 to meet you. Come with me right now. And I 36 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:16.319 grabbed you and I yanked you over and brought you 37 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:17.879 to my sister and I was like, this is Dan, 38 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:19.919 and I just feel like from there on out it 39 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:23.719 was chemistry, and you know, it was It was really 40 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:27.240 cool to meet you and to have the experience of 41 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:31.159 becoming your friend at this conference and having and I 42 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:33.840 will say, you know, for the listener's sake, that I 43 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:37.639 was very blessed to experience a private session with you, 44 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:41.159 which was very profound. So anyway, enough about me, and 45 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:43.120 enough of I just wanted them to know how we met, 46 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:44.919 and you know how it was organic and it was 47 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:45.800 this really cool thing. 48 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:48.080 But I want to talk. 49 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:53.000 More about your background in the breath work space, you know. 50 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:56.919 Yeah, yeah, I'm happy to do that. I actually i'd 51 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:00.159 like to say how I actually met you. I I 52 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:03.840 know your father was signing books and I had seen 53 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:07.960 him just sort of coming and going. But I recognize 54 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:13.479 an open heart from a football field away. So that 55 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:15.759 was the first thing that drew me to your father 56 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:19.039 and then to your family because I felt that heart 57 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:26.120 and that love from all of you. So I was 58 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:28.199 very pleased to me too. It was a nice surprise. 59 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:32.479 And I just actually finished your father's book. And one 60 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:35.159 of the news is actually, since I'm traveling and I'm 61 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.400 passing through, she's going to read it before I leave. 62 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:43.039 So she's actually in the other room reading it right now. 63 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:43.840 Wow. 64 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:47.759 And yeah. So, and I study breathing and I've been 65 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:53.759 a missionary for the breath and and I'm always looking 66 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:57.599 for you know, how can we apply breathwork to make 67 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:02.479 the world a better place, make ourselves healthier, wake people up, 68 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:10.560 you know, vent stress, deal with anxiety, manage emotions, you know, 69 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:15.039 use it to develop mindfulness and so I'm, uh yeah, 70 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:16.800 I'm a missionary for the breath. I have been my 71 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:20.480 whole life and it ain't about to stop anytime soon. 72 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:26.720 You're You're an amazing energy. Like being with you that 73 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.800 whole weekend was the highlight for me, and on the 74 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:32.199 episode of our show that just came out today at 75 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.360 the time of recording this, so this episode that we're 76 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.160 recording now will come out in a few weeks most likely. 77 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.759 But our episode that released today was about the contact modalities, 78 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.279 and you know, I know you're a busy guy, but 79 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:45.879 if you ever happen to hear it, you'll hear how 80 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:48.360 I was just gushing about, you know, getting to meet 81 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:50.199 you and have that experience with you. It was very 82 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:52.399 profound and just like you said about my dad and 83 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:55.240 my family, that you feel that heart from a football 84 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:57.480 field away, I've I did feel the very same thing, 85 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.560 just you know, becoming your friend. I just was like, 86 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.199 oh my god, I've never met anybody like this, and 87 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:05.879 I knew that I had to learn from you. And 88 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.319 the weird thing, Dan is, for a good year now, 89 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.800 I've been thinking to myself, I want to learn more 90 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:15.240 about the breath because I've been going through the journey 91 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:18.879 of sort of becoming a meditation instructor. I told you 92 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:21.480 a little bit about this, but it's through sound and 93 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.199 that's very cool. But in my mind, I was thinking, 94 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:26.959 but there's something a little more ancient. You know, maybe 95 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:29.000 there was a time when they didn't have instruments or 96 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:32.120 didn't have you know, records and vinyls and CDs. 97 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:34.040 What did they have? The breath? Right? 98 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:36.800 So I've this has been on my mind. I want 99 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:39.240 to get into this. And then you know, of course 100 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:43.759 with my crazy journey, I bump into you, probably the 101 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:47.199 very best person on planet Earth to learn from about 102 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:50.040 the breath. So it's just like, you know, no surprise there. 103 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:53.959 But yeah, well, you know, all the ancient Yogis and 104 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:59.000 the ancient Daoists and the Buddha and the early you know, 105 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:05.720 people were just stumbling along. It took years, decades, generations, 106 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:09.639 It took lifetimes to master some of this stuff. And 107 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:14.759 now these days, with wearable technology and you know, monitors 108 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:19.199 and stuff, you combine technology with spirituality and and you 109 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:22.800 can speed things up quite a bit. So that's been 110 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:25.240 happening in the breath work world. You know, I've been 111 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:27.720 i spent a lot of time in India, a lot 112 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:30.639 of time in China, tried to westernize a lot of 113 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:34.800 the Eastern approaches and you know, make it more palatable 114 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:37.160 for the Western mind. We don't really have in the 115 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:41.720 West any sort of spiritual tradition around the breathing, but 116 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:47.600 every ancient religion, every genuine spiritual tradition, makes use of 117 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:52.279 the breath, honors the breath, talks about the breath, recognizes 118 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:54.720 the power of the breath. And if you just look 119 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:59.279 at the word inspiration, expiration, respiration, the root of that 120 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:03.240 word is spirit. So it's not an accident. When you 121 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:09.439 begin to breathe, you unlock spiritual potential, You connect to 122 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:14.600 your source. Uh And in the process of practicing breath work, 123 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:20.240 you become more meditative, You develop meditative awareness, your intuition 124 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:24.800 gets better, you can connect more deeply, you know, just 125 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:28.720 on a very practical level. More of the world comes 126 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:32.120 in contact with you through the breath, and you can 127 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:34.839 possibly wrap your ounds around. I mean, if you were 128 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:38.560 to take the surface area of the lungs, including all 129 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:42.079 the alveoli, those little microscopic air sacks, it's half of 130 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:49.079 a tennis court, and wow, right, and and When you 131 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:55.560 breathe in you are filling yourself with the world. Literally, 132 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:59.959 I mean all of the universe is pouring into you. 133 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.879 And molecules of air that the Buddha breed, that Jesus breed, 134 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:09.360 that all the saints and great warriors and mystics and 135 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:14.360 Caesar and Moses and some of the literal molecules of 136 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:18.680 air that circulated in their bodies is circulating in our body. 137 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:24.439 And that's information. Energy is information, and so breathing kind 138 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.920 of it clears our antenna. So we can actually start 139 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:32.080 to pick up more subtle energies. We were more fine tuned, 140 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:37.759 we're less reactive, we're more sensitive because most people there's 141 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.919 a lot of trauma trapped in the cells of their body, 142 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:48.000 in their nervous system and accumulus like boiling a frog. 143 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:52.240 You know, we get less and less resilient, we get 144 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:58.559 less and less alive. But maybe if we can open 145 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:03.440 up the power of our breath, it affects longevity. And 146 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:07.559 it's unarguable. Now, you know the Framingham heart study, very 147 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:13.799 famous study back Framingham, Massachusetts. They followed several thousand guys 148 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:17.360 through life that's fifty years old now longer sixty seven 149 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.960 years old, and out of that study came a lot 150 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:25.600 of the lifestyle factors that affect heart disease. A lot 151 00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:30.960 of the medications and protocols were developed using data from 152 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:34.759 that study. But there was so much conflicting information. You know, 153 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:37.279 you had guys who lived to be one hundred who 154 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:40.440 they smoke and they drank and they were meat eaters, 155 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:43.639 and at one hundred and two they're still alive. And 156 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.039 then you got people who did everything right, you know, 157 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.759 there were vegan, vegetarians, they whatever, you know, and they 158 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:56.240 dropped when they were forty eight. But the only data 159 00:09:56.279 --> 00:10:01.679 point that had no exceptions across the board respiratory capacity 160 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:08.039 and linking respiratory capacity to longevity and overall health. And 161 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:11.639 if you look at the graph of respiratory capacity, the 162 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:16.919 average person reaches their peak respiratory capacity between twenty seven, 163 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:20.559 twenty five, twenty six years old, and then for every 164 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:24.240 decade of life they lose ten to fifteen percent of 165 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.240 their respiratory capacity. And so if you put that graph 166 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.320 of respiratory function and you put it on the same 167 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:37.559 graph of life expectancy, they follow each other, they're mirror 168 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:40.360 each other. And so very early on I realized, wow, 169 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:43.519 if I can keep up my respiratory capacity, I'm going 170 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:47.039 to bump up my longevity curve. And it's the only 171 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:50.600 data point out of that study that was true across 172 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:55.360 all people, across all all religions, ages, everything. If you 173 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:00.240 maintain your respiratory capacity, you know, let it, let it 174 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:04.600 grow to peak, and then maintain it, it's guaranteed your 175 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:08.879 odds for living longer and being healthier are increased. There's 176 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.960 just no argument about it. So it's just a matter 177 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:17.480 of practice and being motivated to actually do breathing practices 178 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:20.320 which aren't complicated, and a lot of them you get 179 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:24.399 really high off them, So eat a lot of discipline. 180 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:26.960 I've had a lot of people sit up from sessions 181 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.799 and go, wow, I've taken a lot of drugs to 182 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:34.039 feel like this. We got a pharmacy in our head 183 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:39.519 and it'll produce whatever chemicals and DMT and brain waves 184 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:45.600 are affected, chemistry is affected, cognitive abilities, intuition, emotions. So 185 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:49.039 you get your handle on your breath, and wow, you 186 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:51.320 can deal with just about everything else. 187 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:55.919 Yeah, can I give you a report? Yes? 188 00:11:56.240 --> 00:12:00.559 So when we were together last weekend, right, and then 189 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:03.080 I obviously spent quite a bit of time with you, 190 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:06.360 and you had what three workshops that weekend. Yeah, first 191 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:08.159 the first day I wasn't in town for it, the 192 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:09.919 second one I made, and then the third one I 193 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:11.720 wasn't able to make. And I regretted it because you 194 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:15.240 did a session. But then you were, you know, gracious 195 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:17.080 enough to come and do a private session with us. 196 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:20.159 So I want to report on my life since that. 197 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:23.840 You said some things that stuck with me that were 198 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:28.320 very profound that I had never heard before, and things 199 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:31.720 that some things I had heard before, but hearing them 200 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:33.480 from you, it was so much more simple and it 201 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:35.759 made more sense. So I'll just give you the report. 202 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.759 So last week after Wisconsin, when we all left and 203 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:41.919 went our separate ways, I went home for one day 204 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:43.960 and then I turned around and I had a six 205 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:46.039 hour drive back to them in Rome Institute. I was 206 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:48.879 there for like two days doing some things with them, 207 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:51.799 and I stayed up really late both nights in a row, 208 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:54.200 like two am, hanging out with people, getting up at 209 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:55.159 like seven the next day. 210 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:56.639 Both days. I was exhausted. 211 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:00.000 After being in Wisconsin all this travel for two weeks, 212 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:03.519 I was exhausted. So on the last day of being 213 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:07.240 at Monroe, I had a six hour drive home. Right 214 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:11.039 halfway through the drive, I was so tired. I literally 215 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:14.600 was fighting falling asleep. And I was like blasting heavy 216 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:16.639 metal music because I just like heavy metal music. That's 217 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:18.559 just naturally what I like, and it stimulates me when 218 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:20.840 I'm driving, and I was blasting. I'm just like fighting 219 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:22.639 to stay awake. I'm desperate to stay awake. I was 220 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:24.279 so tired and I had like three hours left. 221 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:28.600 I was miserable. And it came to me. Dan said, if. 222 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:32.440 You want energy, Yeah, I'm telling on you what you said. 223 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:35.440 Dan said, if you want energy, take a big inhale, 224 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:39.600 short exhale, big inhale, short exhal and vice versa. And 225 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:41.759 I started doing this, and I started doing this, and 226 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:44.799 I started doing the big inhale and forcing it out, 227 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:45.960 big inhal forcing it out. 228 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:47.480 And I'm not kidding you. 229 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:51.840 I was just like wide awake. For the rest of 230 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.679 the three hour drive. I felt alert. I felt like, 231 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:57.879 oh my god, this worked, This really worked, you know, 232 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:01.159 and it like it kind of shifted my thinking because 233 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.879 I'm a person who loves caffeine, who loves energy drinks, 234 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:06.159 who loves coffee, and I was at that point where 235 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:08.519 I was drinking so much and it wasn't working, and 236 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:10.960 I was at that point of no return to where 237 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:12.759 it's like, you know, I could have all the caffeine 238 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:15.279 in the world, it wouldn't work. Breathe for a minute, 239 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.840 and I was just energized, and that was profound for me. 240 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:23.399 Well, you know, it's it's why it's taught and practice 241 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:27.120 in the first responder world and special forces and military 242 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:31.080 and Navy seals. I mean, and there's a great principle 243 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:34.200 in the in the Navy Seal community, special forces community 244 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:36.600 that says, when you'd think you have no more juice 245 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.879 left in your battery, you still have forty percent. You 246 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:43.200 just haven't learned how to tap that. And most people, 247 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:46.639 unless they're forced to push to, they never discover that 248 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:49.440 what they think is empty isn't empty at all. There's 249 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:51.279 still a lot of bad a lot of juice in 250 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:53.639 your battery. You just got to learn how to access it. 251 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:56.759 And then it comes down to generating energy, which is 252 00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:59.960 what breathing is all about. That's we're getting energy from 253 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.279 the breath all the time. The problem is, most people's 254 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.480 breathing is like the pilot light in an oven. It'll 255 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:10.000 keep you alive, but you can't cook anything with it, 256 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:13.720 and so got to you gotta sort of take over 257 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:18.080 from the autopilot and then do some breathing to ramp 258 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:22.240 up or calm down or whatever's required. 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And I train that so often now 300 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:37.839 that if I start the if tension builds up in 301 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.200 my body, I don't even notice it, but my breath 302 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:47.119 gets triggered automatically, and I notice this breath and it 303 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:50.599 just vented that tension that was building up. I wasn't 304 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:53.279 even aware of it yet. But the breathing is like 305 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:56.359 the canary in the coal mine. Your breath is the 306 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:59.079 first thing to go out of balance when anything else 307 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:02.279 in your system goes out of balance. So the more 308 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:05.559 intimate connection you have with your breath, you can stay 309 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:07.920 ahead of a lot of things. 310 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:09.640 Yeah. 311 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:13.720 Dan, you're obviously so knowledgeable, and it's really fascinating to 312 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:17.799 hear everything that you've picked up. I'm curious, when did 313 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:21.799 you realize that breathing was such a profound and powerful thing, 314 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:24.200 Because a lot of people may not think about it. 315 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:25.359 But I'm curious. 316 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:28.559 You know, I've had so many moments through my life 317 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:31.279 that just were meant to reinforce that, to make it 318 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:35.000 clear what my mission is. I mean, I started in 319 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:40.480 Catholic school in kindergarten and on Fridays, the priest, the 320 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:44.440 monsignor would visit all the classrooms, and the first day 321 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:49.720 he came, he talked about the Book of Genesis and 322 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:54.279 how God formed the body of man, took the dust 323 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:58.519 of the earth, and then breathed into man the nostrils, 324 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:02.359 the breath of life. I mean, that just lit something 325 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:05.079 up in me. I have vague memories of it, but 326 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:08.680 I knew it was like, why isn't everybody excited? Think 327 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:12.960 about that when we breathed, God is breathing into us. 328 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:15.920 Why isn't everybody jumping up and down right now? And 329 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:18.880 I think I got a little too animated. I have 330 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:23.000 vague memories, but I remember the priest pushing my shoulders down, 331 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:25.400 trying to sit me in my chair, and the nun 332 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.920 was tapping me on my head trying to calm me down. 333 00:19:28.359 --> 00:19:32.599 I guess I got too animated, but it lit. It 334 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:35.799 was a spark. And then I became the kid who was, 335 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:41.039 you know, organizing breath holding competitions in the schoolyard and 336 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:45.079 you know, hyperventilating and squeezing each other until we passed us. 337 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:48.920 I was just obsessed with the breathing and I had 338 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:51.279 I can't tell you how many times I got the 339 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:54.119 wind knocked out of me, and sports and fights and 340 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:57.519 falling off a bicycle, climbing a fence, whatever I mean, 341 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:02.119 and near drowning experiences. I've had a number of near 342 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:07.119 drowning experiences and the last one I had to be resuscitated. 343 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:12.759 And my first job was as an X ray technician, 344 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:16.920 and a very easy One of the easiest X rays 345 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:19.799 is the chest X ray. So I was getting all 346 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:22.920 the chest X rays as the newbie. And when you 347 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:25.000 take a chest X ray, you tell the person taking 348 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:28.279 a deep breath hold it, and then you click their picture. 349 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:31.079 And so I had to watch people carefully because if 350 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:33.400 they were breathing, the X ray would come out blurry. 351 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:37.359 So as I gave everyone those same instructions, and a 352 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:40.960 couple of thousand people over two years, I watched them 353 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:44.799 take a breath and hold it, and everybody did something different, 354 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:48.920 the muscles, they used, the expression on their face, how 355 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:52.960 they coordinated their breathing. And I started to see that 356 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:58.480 everyone's personality is reflected in their breathing pattern, and their 357 00:20:58.519 --> 00:21:02.119 relationship to life and their relationship to their body is 358 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:07.240 being expressed in their relationship to the breath. And then 359 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:10.160 I learned CPR as an X ray technician. I took 360 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:15.640 a weekend CPR course cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. I was so surprised 361 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:17.240 to show up and there was no one else from 362 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:20.160 the X ray department taking this course, and I thought, 363 00:21:20.599 --> 00:21:23.960 doesn't everybody want to learn this? And two weeks later 364 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:26.519 I was with a portable X ray machine up in 365 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:29.759 the intensive care ward and the guy I came to 366 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:32.559 do a chest X ray on he died while I 367 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:36.039 was in the room. His heart snupped, he flatlined, that 368 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:41.359 beat beat went deep, and so there I was the 369 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:45.920 only one in the room, so my training kicked in. 370 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:48.400 I remember from the class a couple of weeks earlier. 371 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:52.200 I pumped his chest. At the time it was five compressions, 372 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.599 one breath, five compressions, and then I blew into him 373 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:01.240 and he blinked and woke up. I mean, a freaking miracle. 374 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:05.319 The guy was clinically dead, fixed, dilated pupils, no pulse, 375 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:11.000 no breathing, look dead ashen gray. And I blow into 376 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:13.960 him and he wakes up and blinks. I mean, I 377 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:18.960 was vibrating for days. It was I mean, being part 378 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:22.640 of a miracle, the miracle of breath, the miracle of life, 379 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:27.240 and then when I went into the military, I got 380 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:31.920 into deep sea diving and underwater rescue and special operations. 381 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:35.759 So I was practicing breath control. I was practicing breath holding, 382 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:40.039 and I learned that in order to manage your arousal, 383 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:43.759 manage your mental state, your emotional state, you need to 384 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:48.799 manage your breathing. When you get pushed and when the 385 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:53.039 poop hits the fan, what can you do? You know, 386 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:56.039 you don't grab your weapon, you don't grab the radio, 387 00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:59.359 you can't call your mother. You get a handle on 388 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:02.839 your breath. And as soon as that happens, everything else 389 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:06.640 comes into focus. Everything else lines up. And so I 390 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:09.599 realized that, wow, you know, it's easier to keep up 391 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:12.839 than it is to catch up. And so I just 392 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:16.640 became a lot more conscious of my breathing. And because 393 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:21.680 I was then training emergency rescue people, I was training 394 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:26.720 special operations and submarine escape people and underwater salvage and 395 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:30.240 everything that, and I was very often I would be 396 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:33.240 attached to a team and I didn't know these guys. 397 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:36.720 I was like the pro from Dover that they just 398 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:40.319 flew in to take part in the mission. I had 399 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:44.119 demolition skills and I had surgery skills so I could 400 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:46.920 blow people up and then I could sew them together again. 401 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:50.079