#323: Improve Your Breathing, Improve Your Health

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Take a breath right now. Did your chest go up and down? Congratulations, you just failed at breathing. Don’t worry, my guest today on the show will set you straight. Her name is Belisa Vranich. She’s a clinical psychologist who has made a career re-training people on how to breathe correctly and in her latest book, "Breathe," she provides a step-by-step program to help people breathe better. Today on the show, Belisa explains all the ill health and psychological effects of poor breathing, like increased stress, poor sleep, poor mental function, and even poor digestion, as well as why so many people mess up this seemingly simple and automatic bodily process. She then walks listeners through how to take a proper breath and even shares some exercises you can do to train yourself to breathe better and improve your all-around health. This is an extremely practical podcast, and you’re going to feel great after you do the breathing exercises Belisa lays out.

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0:00.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:13.9	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:17.9	So stop what you're doing right now and take a deep breath.
0:21.1	Okay.
0:22.6	Did your chest go up and down when you did that?
0:24.7	If so, congratulations, you just failed at breathing.
0:28.0	But don't worry, my guest today on the show will set you straight.
0:30.5	Her name is Belisa Vrannich.
0:31.8	She's a clinical psychologist who has made a career retraining people on how to breathe correctly.
0:36.2	And in her latest book, Breathe, she provides a step-by-step program to help people breathe better.
0:41.2	Today on the show, Belisa explains all the ill-health and psychological effects of poor breathing,
0:45.3	like increased stress, poor sleep, poor mental function, and even poor digestion,
0:50.0	as well as why so many people mess up the seemingly simple and automatic bodily process.
0:55.5	She then walks, lists her through how to take a proper breath and even share some exercises
0:59.7	you can do to train yourself to breathe better and improve your all-around health.
1:03.4	This is an extremely practical pod to cast and trust me, you're going to feel great
1:06.5	after you do the breathing exercise, Belisa lays out, and you're going to feel really great
1:09.5	to take your first proper breath, probably since you were a baby.
1:12.4	After the show's over, check out the show notes at a-wim.is slash breathe,
1:16.0	where you find links to resources, where you can help deeper into this topic.
1:18.5	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
1:22.1	Belisa Vrannich, welcome to the show.
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