Josh Trent on Wellness and Breathwork Practices
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Josh Trent is the Founder of Wellness Force Media, host of the Wellness Force Podcast and the creator of the BREATHE: Breath & Wellness Program Josh has spent the past 19+ years as a trainer, researcher, and facilitator discovering the physical and emotional intelligence for humans to thrive in our modern world. The Wellness Force Mission is to help humans heal mental, emotional and physical health through podcasts, programs, and a global community that believe in optimizing our potential to live life well.
In this episode, Eric and Josh Trent discuss how to implement his powerful wellness and breathwork practices.
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Josh Trent and I Discuss Wellness and Breathwork Practices and...
- His personal story that led to creating Wellness Force podcast and business.
- The important scientific and spiritual aspects of breathwork
- Box breathing and circular breathing
- How breath is the autonomic lever that we can pull for modulating stress
- Understanding the default mode network and how it can be deemed good or bad
- The 3 phases of breathwork
- Acute breathing practice is when you're stressed or reactive
- Proactive or meditative breathing is what allows long term changes over time (neuroplasticity)
- Catharsis breathing is a deeper level that requires training
- The importance of breathing horizontally (expanding your diaphragm) and not vertically
- Beginning a breathwork practice requires you to start where you are without judging yourself
- The difference between breathwork and meditation
- How breathwork primes your nervous system and is your best ally for meditation
- Investigating the inner critic by becoming curious rather than judging it
- The balancing of our awareness and lack of awareness
- Learning to bridge the gap between knowing and doing
- His emotional inventory practice
Josh Trent Links:
Josh's Website and Breathwork Program
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| 0:00.0 | Do you ever feel like life is just one problem after another? |
| 0:03.9 | You finally feel like maybe there's a break in the BAM another problem. |
| 0:08.4 | This is how it is for many of us, but there is a better way to respond. |
| 0:13.1 | A way of responding that brings greater ease into your life and returns some of the energy |
| 0:17.9 | that the problems drain from you. We are hosting a free live masterclass on Sunday, |
| 0:22.9 | February 27th called Learn the Spiritual Habit to Unlock Energy and Ease in your Life. |
| 0:29.0 | Even if each day seems to bring a fresh pile of problems. |
| 0:32.9 | In it, I will teach you how to tap into the resources that are already within you |
| 0:37.3 | so that life feels less like a never-ending fight and more like an ever-evolving dance. |
| 0:43.2 | You will learn the number one source of unhappiness that drains your energy |
| 0:47.2 | and keeps you feeling stuck and a simple mindset shift. You can make right away |
| 0:53.0 | so that life doesn't feel like such a constant struggle. This will be a live event and you'll |
| 0:57.9 | have a chance to interact with me and with each other. I've really grown to love these community |
| 1:03.6 | events where we get to meet each other and deepen our connections. I hope that you can become |
| 1:08.4 | part of that. Go to 1Ufeed.net slash live to learn more and register for this free event. |
| 1:14.3 | Again, that's 1Ufeed.net slash live and I really would love the chance to meet you and see you there. |
| 1:20.9 | It's one thing to react to your life. It's another thing to train yourself to respond. |
| 1:33.5 | Welcome to the 1Ufeed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. |
| 1:40.0 | Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think. Ring true. |
| 1:45.6 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, |
| 1:51.6 | self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that |
| 1:58.4 | hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes |
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