Practice Controlled Breathing To Experience Stress Safely with Chuck McGee III
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
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🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
How do you breathe during stressful times?
That might seem like a strange question. After all, breathing is something we do automatically. But how you breathe can change the physiological response you have to a situation. Practicing breathwork can help you experience stress safely so that you can learn to modulate your breath during any scenario life throws at you.
To talk more about this important topic, I’m happy to have Chuck McGee III on our show today. Chuck is a breathwork instructor who has dedicated his life to helping people discover the power conscious breathwork can have on their lives and health.
Your physiology affects your psychology. Controlled breathing can help alleviate chronic pain, reduce stress, manage depression, and lower anxiety. Listen in, as Chuck walks you through several exercises and gives you practical tips on how to make conscious breathwork a habit.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Quick Brain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:09.0 | Free. You're mine. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:16.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:21.0 | I know Kung Fu. Show me. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome back, quick brain. Your question for today is, how do you breathe during stressful time? |
| 0:36.8 | I mean in real time, we've all heard that breathing helps with things like |
| 0:41.9 | reducing chronic pain and stress and anxiety and |
| 0:45.6 | different forms of depression but how you do it in real life scenarios and so I |
| 0:49.9 | want to introduce you to our guest today. This is Chuck McGee, the third. And hello Chuck. |
| 0:56.7 | Hello. Let's go into this. Chuck is a, he's an instructor, he's a breath work instructor and he's also since helped our team. |
| 1:06.2 | We have our monthly all-hands meetings and he came to one of our meetings and guided all our team through some breathing exercises. |
| 1:16.3 | They were absolutely profound to help us with our productivity, our performance, and even |
| 1:22.1 | our peace of mind. |
| 1:23.2 | And so that's the discussion we're gonna have today. |
| 1:26.5 | And Chuck, what is happening right now with people and their breathing? |
| 1:30.7 | And how is that affecting our cognitive ability? |
| 1:33.2 | Well, when we're under stress, we lose about one third of our mental acuity. |
| 1:37.4 | And like you, I've had a head injury and I just can't afford to give that away in a stressful |
| 1:42.4 | situation. I need to be all there and ready to make the best decision even in the most stressful times. |
| 1:49.5 | So doing something like practicing active breath work or you know sitting in a cold |
| 1:53.8 | plunge for a couple minutes a day can help you practice with stress safely and learn |
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