My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield live podcast they've taken people who were incapable of feeling fear because there was a portion of their brain that was shut down for that like Alex Arnold and the free climber and the soloist and when they inject them with carbon dioxide they actually felt fear for the first time because it puts the system into such a fight or flight mechanism that it throws them over the top faith

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Well folks it's of course no secret that I am a fan of breathwork and have been a fan of breathwork for many years even unknowingly so since my triathlon and swimming days when I would work on rhythmic breathwork

and breath holds and breath locks and eventually extended that after reading a book by Bud Coats about rhythmic running to running and that would include nasal breathing you know exhales on the foot strike to avoid the inevitable side stitch that plagues many runners to again working on efficiency and long breath holds in the pool

and of course cold water swimming which I thought at the time just allowed me to swim in a thinner wetsuit but it turns out there's some benefits of that as well which of course Wim Hof and other folks who are also breathwork practitioners have made pretty popular.

So anyways I've been on the breathwork bandwagon for quite some time I'm going to brag before it got hyper trendy so I dodge that bullet.

But you know one thing that that I've talked about before on the podcast is that I also like to meditate I like to pray I like to read scripture and other encouraging religious texts and I for the longest time felt as though I could be pairing my breathwork with those type of activities to allow me to enhance my spiritual practice become closer to God you memorize scriptures pray things of that nature.

But I really was a little bit disillusioned with many of what appeared to be kind of like secular breathwork apps and there's still with a great message but you know affirmations I'm good I'm great wonderful and gosh darn it people like me which is wonderful for picking you up in the morning or you know dwelling upon something you're grateful about which is fantastic as well.

But there's also you know for for me and you know my background as a as a Protestant Christian right there was there was a lot of like you know third eye chakra stuff and you know connect with your higher self and and you really are purely good inside and you know you are consciousness and some of this stuff that that for me at least resulted in a little bit of a he be GB effect combined with a desire to be able to connect with God more deeply via some kind of like a breathwork app that has a lot of things to do.

So in my searching for all this I came across one app called the breath source and and upon using it I was actually pretty impressed it has you know videos downloadable breathwork sessions and think of it as though you're walking into a gym and lined up in front of you are like 20 personal trainers and one specializes in functional fitness and one specializes in cardio and one's the spin instructor et cetera and you just get to kind of true.

The instructor that is your your flavor for the day depending on the type of workout that you want to do and that's kind of like what the breath source app is you go in and you kind of select which instructor you want to work with and you go through one of their sessions or you pick another on a different day and go through one of their sessions and I actually reached out to the company and asked them if maybe I could do some Christian sessions for for my own section of the app that has things like breath prayer and praying on the armor of God and dwelling upon the fruits of the Holy Spirit et cetera.

And the gentleman who I who I dialogue with at the company about this was named Travis Stephens and it turns out that Travis was not only a seasoned breathwork practitioner himself but was also graciously open to the idea of me partnering with breath source to lay down some of these tracks to accompany many of the other breathwork sessions that they have within this app which is fresh I mean it launched in the past four five months or so so it's been incredible getting to know Travis and his team.

And also learning a little bit more about Travis's intriguing story as an entrepreneur as a conscious capitalist and as a breathwork practitioner and instructor himself so I thought what the heck I've got all these sessions breathwork Travis has a in the breath source app Travis has a fantastic story I should get this guy on the podcast and learn more about his journey with breathwork and teach you a lot more about how you can use some of these some of these sessions within the breath source

and elsewhere to enhance your own life so Travis agreed and here we are and all the show notes you guys including links to that app the sessions that I talked about everything you can find at Ben Greenfield life calm slash breath source podcast Ben Greenfield life calm slash breath source podcast.

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I got your answer drumroll please 2 million 2 million people do you believe 2 million people had to die before we figure that out well here's where it gets crazier there's a little known deficiency right now killing millions of people around the world in the disease it's causing insomnia according to a study published by academic press magnesium deficiency is a leading cause in sleep disruption in both children and adults the problem is not any old magnesium will do the trick.

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