Mastering the skill of breathing for resilience and wellbeing: David Jackson - PART 2
A New Way of Being
Simon Mundie
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🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Improving how you breath is probably the best way to get more energy, sleep better and enjoy a calm and resilient nervous system. I'm talking to David Jackson, Oxygen advantage Master Trainer and Breathwork coach extraordinaire. We’ve split this conversation in 2 as there’s quite a lot to take in, but it’s powerful stuff. In part 2 we explore the:
- Powerful connection between breathing and the vagus nerve
- Techniques like humming to stimulate the vagus nerve and promote relaxation
- Critical role of the diaphragm in breathing
- Importance of carbon dioxide in optimizing breathing and overall health
- Practical ways to improve carbon dioxide sensitivity and breathing efficiency
- Building on insights from Part 1 to provide a comprehensive understanding of conscious breathing
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the show. This is part two of my conversation with David Jackson, and we are doing a deep dive into breathing, which, as I said, last time is one of my favourite subjects, not least because I am very aware of the power of improving aspects of your breathing to get more |
| 0:23.6 | energy to sleep better and to enjoy a calm and settled nervous system. We'll be discussing the |
| 0:30.3 | connection between breathing and the vagus nerve. We'll talk about techniques like humming, which |
| 0:35.3 | can stimulate the vagus nerve and create a sense of relaxation. |
| 0:38.6 | We'll also discuss the critical role of the diaphragm and carbon dioxide in optimizing our |
| 0:44.1 | breathing and overall health. Plus, we're going to explore practical ways to improve your carbon |
| 0:50.0 | dioxide sensitivity and breathing efficiency. Enjoy. Let's get on to the diaphragm then. |
| 0:59.4 | One of the biggest, correct me if I'm wrong, where it ranks exactly, one of the biggest |
| 1:05.4 | muscles in the body, and one of the only two, I think, that's always moving, always activated along with the heart. |
| 1:12.6 | Again, correct me if I'm wrong. But a lot of people talk about diaphragmatic breathing. |
| 1:17.8 | And obviously it's this really important muscle. But I remember talking to you about this. |
| 1:22.3 | Like, I know where it is. And it's only really since perhaps doing some breathing stuff, I've become a lot more |
| 1:30.1 | conscious of it. But I think prior to that, I knew where it was, but I never really was sure that |
| 1:36.9 | I was feeling it because it is one of those muscles. We can't see it. And so we've struggled to feel |
| 1:42.3 | connected to it. Totally. |
| 1:44.6 | And I was exactly the same. |
| 1:47.6 | I remember coming across Patrick's work, Patrick McKeown at the Oxfam's coming across his work |
| 1:52.5 | and starting to understand, okay, the importance of the diaphragm. |
| 1:56.3 | And for me, breathing was really important for oxygen supply and blood supply to the brain to help |
| 2:01.6 | with my recovery from my brain injury. So for brain health was how it started for me. |
| 2:07.5 | I remember going to see my friend who's a performance physiotherapist working with |
| 2:13.2 | British athletics. And I went to, I sort of like pointed at my body and breathed in front of her. |
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