Your Breath Is Your Medicine with Niraj Naik
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5.0 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Niraj Naik is a former U.K. pharmacist who left the pill-for-every-ill treadmill after a debilitating autoimmune illness forced him to rethink healing from the ground up. He restored his health through breathwork, meditation, music, and nutrition—and founded SOMA Breath, a method that fuses ancient pranayama with modern science and rhythm-based music to reduce anxiety, boost resilience, and reconnect people with purpose. With protocols now under study at Cambridge University, his mission is to awaken the body's "inner pharmacy," one breath at a time. Note: This episode includes a brief instance of explicit language.
Conversation Highlights include:
-After years as a pharmacist, Niraj kept seeing patients take more prescriptions yet feel worse—so he stepped away to find a better way.
-A personal health crash was the turning point; when surgery and heavy meds were the only options, Niraj looked for a "third path" rooted in breath, meditation, and lifestyle.
-The first structured sessions—slow nasal breathing and longer, calmer exhales—gave immediate relief, revealing the body's "inner pharmacy."
-Why Niraj chose the name SOMA: rather than reach for substances, create bliss from within by syncing breath, awareness, and the nervous system.
-What sets SOMA apart: a sequence of protocols (focus, sleep, pain, emotional balance) that pair rhythm, breath-holds, and intention in a safe, step-by-step way.
-Music isn't just a soundtrack—it's the metronome guiding rhythmic breathing and gentle, timed hypoxic holds to build resilience and CO2 tolerance.
-In the quiet after an exhale, the mind goes still; Niraj calls this window "scientific prayer," a moment to plant intentions and rewire patterns.
-Early data—and ongoing studies at Cambridge—point to rapid, measurable shifts that can be replicated, not just one-off miracles.
-A simple try-along: nose-only breathing, a four-count rhythm, and a soft hum to raise nitric oxide and calm the system within minutes.
Next, Michael leads a soothing guided practice—grounding listeners in love, gratitude, and an embodied sense of peace.
🪷 Connect with Niraj and SOMA Breath here: https://nirajnaik.com/ and
https://www.somabreath.com/, and across social media.
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| 0:00.0 | But then also our thoughts are the product of our feelings, how we feel, a state. |
| 0:05.5 | So if you have a really bad day or if you wake up feeling like you hate the world, |
| 0:10.3 | hey, go into your job, you don't want to be kind and compassionate to others because you hate people. |
| 0:15.4 | If that's your default state, then think about the quality of your decisions. |
| 0:20.0 | Because I know when I was miserable as a pharmacist |
| 0:22.7 | I made the worst decisions for my life right so I would not manifest many good things in my life |
| 0:29.4 | and I would not be a very attractive person definitely not magnetic in fact I used to propel people |
| 0:35.0 | so when I learn to change my state using a breath, my ability to make quality decisions |
| 0:42.9 | went to another level. |
| 0:44.6 | And then you start to manifest all the good things because now you become attractive |
| 0:49.5 | to opportunities, to ideas, to insight, to experiences that lead you towards bliss |
| 0:56.7 | and away from all the nicest stuff that we don't really want. |
| 1:01.3 | Peace and Riches blessings. |
| 1:02.5 | I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back Your Mind. Feel it, deal it, deal it, deal it, deal it. |
| 1:11.6 | As we're lifted up into the spiritual domain, |
| 1:14.6 | listen, listen, everyone. I'm Michael Bebe, founder of the Agapa International Spiritual |
| 1:45.5 | Center. And I am your host on this podcast titled, Take Back Your Mind. We're seeking to |
| 1:53.0 | pull our attention away from the noise of the world and to begin to be captured by our own |
| 2:00.0 | inner destiny, captured by infinite potential that lies within us. |
| 2:03.6 | And guess what? I had the opportunity to speak to individuals on a regular basis who in their own unique way are making a mighty difference on this planet. |
| 2:14.6 | And today, I have another Oznik with me this morning. Look at that bright smile. |
| 2:20.5 | And welcome, welcome to take back your mind. Pleasure to be here, my friend. Absolutely. |
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