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Lesson 3: How to Breathe to Control Anxiety

Most of us were taught algebra in school. We were taught history, literature, and science - but never the science of ourselves.

In fact, I was talking with Emily one of our incredible students who you’ll find helping to instruct many of these lessons about how insane it is that students in biology class will often dissect a frog or some other member of the animal kingdom without ever learning about their own, diaphragm their lungs with their heart.

When we say learning, we don't mean for memorizing information from a textbook or listening to a podcast.

The only way to learn about our physiology is through experience.

In the exercise above, you will learn to feel CO2 levels rising in your body.

You will learn to decouple the physiology of anxiety from the psychology of worry.

If you followed our previous lessons, you'll be taking a full expensive breath that stretches your ribs from the inside.

You'll feel alive as you learn, and you learn to better live.

If you don't have time for the nine minute video, he was a quick breakdown.

Breathing and Anxiety 101:

• We don't breathe because we're running out of oxygen.

• We breathe because we're experiencing rising carbon dioxide levels in the body.

• As carbon dioxide level levels increase, it can feel uncomfortable and anxiety provoking.

• Many of us have a very low tolerance to carbon dioxide from years or decades of mouth breathing.

• When we get stressed carbon dioxide levels rise naturally - triggering a cascade of responses related to the cycle of rising carbon dioxide and low carbon dioxide tolerance.

• We breathe ourselves into an anxious state by mistaking heighten arousal and readiness for a threat.

By familiarizing ourselves with our own physiology and learning to feel the sensation of rising carbon dioxide - decoupled from life stress - in a fun training environment we can recognize the sensation in when it appears in everyday life.

This helps us understand that our body is preparing us for action - not punishing us by nudging us gently out of the numbness in which we've normalized and forcing us to feel at all.

Trained alongside Emily and feel the anxiety response uncoupled from psychological stress.

Push the limits of your CO2 tolerance and realize that you're safe while feeling the physiology of anxiety.

And when this feeling occurs in life, know that you've been here before - and that you've trained by learned about your Physiology First.

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Lesson 3 and Raffle🥳