Freediving for Inner Peace with BJ Griffin

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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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BJ Griffin is a musician and freediver from Virginia Beach. Freediving is where you hold your breath and dive deep underwater to explore the ocean. For BJ, freediving has drastically impacted his life. It's improved his health and lung capacity. It's helped him develop a meditation practice, and it's even influenced his life as an artist.

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0:00.0	Here at Wild Ideas worth living, we love hearing about your wild ideas.
0:07.0	Have you tried any new adventures lately?
0:09.0	Are you hang gliding on every continent or trying to walk every trail within 10 miles
0:13.9	of your house?
0:15.5	Later a viewer every listen to the show and tell us about it.
0:19.0	Who knows, maybe you'll be our next guest.
0:22.5	Diving changed the way I write music.
0:35.4	Diving helped me connect better to my deeper self, my highest self.
0:41.3	That enlightenment helped me go deeper into my music.
1:04.0	That beautiful voice belongs to BJ Griffin, a musician and freediver from Virginia Beach.
1:11.0	A few years ago BJ's life completely changed when his friend introduced him to freediving.
1:17.5	If you're unfamiliar with this sport, freediving is where you hold your breath and dive deep
1:22.2	underwater to explore the ocean.
1:24.9	For BJ, freediving has drastically impacted his life.
1:28.7	It's improved his health and lung capacity, it's helped him develop a meditation practice,
1:33.9	and it's even influenced his life as an artist.
1:38.5	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI co-op studios production.
1:49.0	BJ Griffin works as a professional cellist and singer, and a few years ago he also became
1:54.2	a video artist.
1:55.8	He and his friend Andrew started using a GoPro to film stunning clips of BJ freediving.
2:01.6	In the videos, sunlight gleams through serrillion blue waters as BJ dances near coral reefs
2:07.9	and rock formations.
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