Hermetic Principle 5 Rhythm, Breathwork, High Tide Low Tide Plan, Depression Ego

2 Be Better

Chris Burkett

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this video, you’ll learn the Hermetic Principle of Rhythm and how it explains the cycles you keep living through, the highs where you feel unstoppable, and the lows where you question everything. Chris breaks rhythm down as the “breath of life,” expansion and contraction, push and pull, growth and rest, and shows why your mood, motivation, money, creativity, confidence, and even your sense of purpose naturally rise and fall. You can expect practical clarity on why you suffer when you demand permanent momentum, or panic during an “exhale,” and how to stop letting temporary swings make permanent decisions.

You’ll also get tools you can use immediately, including a one minute breath reset, a two-plan method that builds a high tide plan and a low tide plan, and a no major decision rule for those moments when you’re at the top or bottom of the wave. The episode applies rhythm to relationships, discipline, and relapse patterns, and finishes with a hard, direct segment on depression as an ego loop, identity fusion, and self-focused narration, plus how to interrupt that loop with usefulness, service, behavior, and small wins that rebuild confidence. If you’ve been stuck in cycles of intensity and collapse, this will give you language, structure, and a steady way forward.

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0:00.0	All right, guys, welcome back to the Hermetic Principles. This is number five, rhythm.
0:18.8	Hopefully you guys have been enjoying this little thing so far. There
0:21.1	will be two left after this one. And I am trying to get through all of these in a way that I'm
0:25.8	able to relate these to what's going on in your life in a way that makes it easy to understand
0:29.4	and tying it into previous principles and just trying to really learn some shit. And I am,
0:36.7	in fact, learning some shit by doing all this with you guys.
0:39.7	So the fifth hermetic principle is rhythm. The classic line, everything flows out and in.
0:44.7	Everything has tides. All things rise and fall. The universe, nature, life moves and cycles.
0:49.7	I believe that this is the breath of life. It has to inhale and exhale. Expansion and contraction,
0:56.3	push and pull, growth and rest, noise and silence. Nothing stays expanded forever, right? Nothing
1:02.0	stays contracted forever. Life moves. Life breathes. There will always be an ebb and flow, right?
1:09.1	mood, energy, money, creativity, relationships, motivation, confidence, grief,
1:14.1	even your sense of purpose comes and goes.
1:16.5	You have seasons where you feel like you're fucking on it.
1:19.8	And then you have seasons where you're like, what the hell happened, right?
1:22.5	And it almost feels like depression.
1:23.7	We'll get into that too.
1:25.2	Rhythm is the principle that says stop acting surprised by the flow.
1:28.9	Learn it, ride it, and don't let the things, the swings, make decisions for you.
1:34.1	So breath is the most obvious proof of rhythm in your life, in your own body.
1:39.2	You don't inhale and hold it forever and you don't exhale and stay empty forever.
1:42.6	If you try, you suffer.
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