Breathing

Patrick McKeown is one of the world’s leading experts on optimal breathing.

What do you think is the most important, underappreciated muscle in your body?

The other day I had a coaching call with a Hero. It’s always super fun to have a chat with someone who’s ALL IN.

Your 10th cranial nerve starts at the base of your brain and then cruises down to your heart and thru your lungs and down into your gut.

In our last +1, we talked about the new sexy: vagal tone.

In our last couple +1s, we’ve talked about your breathing. If you haven’t checked out the full Optimal Breathing 101 master class yet, you might dig it.

Continuing our Optimal Breathing theme, here’s a little gem from Kelly McGonigal’s The Willpower Instinct.

Concluding this edition of our breathing series, let’s talk about the fact that BREATH CONTROL = SELF-CONTROL.

Continuing our exploration of how to Conquer Fear, how about a simple yet profound piece of wisdom from Fritz Perls, founder of Gestalt Therapy?

In our last +1, we practiced some virtue mastery via our new (and always-evolving) Virtuegong practice.

In our last +1, we blew up some belly balloons with our kids.

I recently read a book called Breath by James Nestor. It’s all about “The New Science of a Lost Art.” (Thanks for the rec, Zac!)

In our last +1, we spent some time breathing with James Nestor.

Continuing our brief foray through James Nestor’s brilliant brain and book, let’s take another moment to focus on the power of our breath.

In our last +1, we Optimized our oral posture.

By this stage, I hope we’ve established the fact that breathing is important.

Last night I got to hang out with 23 Heroes in their virtual Heroic Local Zoom hangout.

In our last +1, we spent some time hanging out with a couple dozen amazing Heroic Coaches in their virtual Heroic Local Zoom meetup.

As you know, every morning I start my day with the usual routine.

In our last couple +1s, I invited you to play a couple fun games: The 100,000 Game and The Heart Rate Game.

Elizabeth Blackburn won a Nobel Prize for her research on telomerase — the enzyme that nourishes our telomeres. She wrote a book called The Telomere Effect with another world-class researcher named Elissa Epel in which they tell us just how powerful our telomeres are.

Yesterday I led a session with our Coaches on our fifth Fundamental: Be Present. (Preceded by Eat + Move + Sleep + Breathe and to be followed by Prosper.)

On June 8th, 2001, I was on the back patio of my apartment a block from the beach in La Jolla, California reading Michael Gelb’s How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci.

In our last +1, we talked about our inaugural Heroic Coach program (there’s still a little more time to sign up and join hundreds of other passionate Heroes in making this the greatest year of our lives while helping others in our lives do the same, btw).

In our last +1, we talked about the science of courage and did some quick napkin math on our Courage Quotients.

In our last +1, we got an inspiring (Hoosiers-inspired) pep talk from Admiral McRaven right before engaging in our next most important mission.

In our +1 on the Top 10 Sleep Kryptonites, we briefly discussed the fact that “Anxiety” is one of the top reasons people give for Why We DON’T Sleep.