Skeptic Turned Believer_ The Power of Breath Work! | The Breathwork Routine That Helped Break My

Breathwork is one of those things that 10 years ago, I kind of poo pooed, like, yeah, whatever. Breathing. Me too. We all do it. We all do it. Like, so what, you know, and. And you hear these stories like, oh, yeah, these monks that, like, you know, under these waterfalls that are like 32 degrees cold and they're there for hours. Like, yeah, whatever. They're not there for hours. And they're actually through breathwork, heating their body up. And then all the. The iceman, Wim Hof. Yeah, Wim Hof kind of like brought the. Brought that to, I guess, Western consciousness. But him, you're doing his breath work, where people literally will sit in snow and the snow melts around them. It's one of those things like, wow, maybe you can change your physiology to a significant degree with breath work. This is kind of interesting, and that's kind of got me into thinking other things about it, but how does it work? Like, I know I want to go first talk about ancient thinking and then modern thinking, but from your understanding, which is this is more your expertise than mine, how did the ancients think breath worked? Was it a life force? Was it energy? How did they conceptualize the concept and then through controlling it, what was the point? What was the outcome of that?