497. Breathwork for Brain Healing: The Breath's Role in Healing and Mental Focus

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Mark Divine

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🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Unbeatable Mind, Catherine Divine provides her riveting account of how she breathed her way through adversity after a surfing accident left her with a concussion and fractured occipital bone.

Though breathing for most is simply an automatic function of life, mastering breath control can have profound impacts on both mental and emotional states. Mark and Catherine share their valuable knowledge on techniques like box breathing, and alternate nostril breathing. Such techniques hold the power to manage stress and improve overall well-being. Together, they unpack the art of breathing and discuss its largely unrealized potential as a “free medicine” that can absolutely transform your life!

Key Takeaways:

Health Benefits of Breathwork: Discover how consistent breathwork practice can bring about positive health benefits such as weight loss, and balancing the body’s energy systems.
Observations and Adjustments in Breathing: Learn how to identify and correct breathing imbalances and identify changes in nostril predominance over time and seasonal influences.
Nose Vs. Mouth Breathing: Identify the benefits of nostril breathing over mouth breathing, and the relevance of the body’s chakras and energy systems.
Breath Control: Hear Catherine’s personal account of using breath control to manage her recovery after a surfing accident.

Catherine Divine is a leadership coach, author, and yoga instructor with over 20 years of experience helping leaders unlock their full potential. Coauthor of Kokoro Yoga with her stepfather, Mark Divine, and author of Sacred Silence, Catherine holds a Master’s in Transformative Leadership from CIIS and is pursuing a PhD in East-West Psychology. As a Master Unbeatable Mind Coach, she has trained C-suite executives, Special Ops candidates, and high-performance leaders, guiding them to integrate mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and resilience. Catherine combines intuitive healing with strategic insight to help leaders overcome challenges, heal from trauma, and strengthen their mind-body-soul connection.

Catherine’s Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinec1/

Kokoro Yoga: https://unbeatablemind.com/kokoro-yoga/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatherineDivineYoga/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mark Devine Show. This is Mark Devine, your host. Super stoked to have you
0:12.8	here today. I'm joined with Catherine Devine. We're going to have a great conversation about
0:18.0	part two, talking about breathing and breath work. Appreciate you joining us here on
0:23.6	the Mark Devine show where we dare to be uncommon and dare to live a life filled with purpose,
0:29.9	passion, and courage. So we're going to get right into it. We had a conversation a while back,
0:36.6	Catherine, just talking about the power of breathwork.
0:40.4	And at the end of that conversation, I said, you know, we need to continue this conversation because we're just getting warmed up.
0:48.0	We'll try to keep this to 20 minutes or so. So I thought today we would get into more nuances around different practices.
0:56.1	Okay.
0:56.8	And also talk about the power of the retention, right?
1:03.0	And how to use our mind and train our mind using the breath.
1:08.4	That's ultimately what we're all about here's like taking control of the mind and training it
1:12.2	and how the breath can be a really, is the master tool for doing that.
1:19.0	So how are you today?
1:20.5	I'm doing well.
1:21.2	Thank you.
1:21.7	You're well?
1:22.3	Yeah, I'm breathing.
1:23.2	Recovering from your little surfboard hedging tree.
1:26.9	Yes, yes. But Catherine got smacked in the head with her surfboard hedging. Yes, yes.
1:27.9	But Catherine got smacked in the head with her surfboard.
1:30.8	I did.
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