492: You’re Breathing Wrong. Here’s How to Fix It | James Nestor

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

At times, self-improvement can seem like a never-ending hallway filled with limitless shame and insufficiency. So when something as simple as the breath falls into this category, it seems only natural to meet that news with some resistance. Our guest today, James Nestor argues that many of us, of all things, are breathing incorrectly but that by fixing our breathing, it can help with both physical and psychological ailments.

Nestor is a science journalist who wrote a book called, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, which spent 18 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was translated into more than 35 languages.

In this episode we talk about:

How Nestor got interested in breathing in the first place
Why we are the worst breathers in the animal kingdom
The importance of posture
The deleterious effects of mouth breathing
Why we need to chew more
The relationship between breathing and anxiety
The relationship between breathing and sleep
And we dive into a variety of breathing exercises

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast.
0:06.3	I'm Dan Harris.
0:08.0	Hey gang, I know.
0:12.1	I know.
0:13.9	Trust me.
0:14.9	I know that at times the whole self improvement game can seem like a never ending
0:19.8	hallway filled with limitless shame and insufficiency.
0:24.6	So I fully sympathize with anybody who might greet the following news with some measure
0:29.4	of resistance.
0:31.5	And here's the news.
0:32.9	Turns out many of us are of all things breathing incorrectly.
0:37.7	Again, I understand there may be some resistance here, but my advice is to approach this news
0:42.4	as an opportunity.
0:44.1	My guest today argues that fixing your breathing can help you with all sorts of ailments, both
0:49.0	physical and psychological.
0:51.4	What's more, the history of how our breathing got screwed up in the first place is downright
0:55.6	fascinating.
0:56.9	James Nester, as somebody I've wanted to have on this show for a long time.
0:59.9	He's a science journalist who wrote a book called Breath, the new Science of a Lost Art,
1:05.3	which spent 18 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was translated into 35
1:10.0	languages.
1:11.1	In this conversation, we talk about how he got interested in breathing in the first place,
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