Managing Stress | A Bit of Optimism #Podcast

The big lesson that I'm learning here that is pretty profound. I always thought freediving was about holding your breath, maximize oxygen in your lungs. It's actually less about breathing, not to pass out. It's really a stress management. If you suffer stress and freak out when you're at depth, you're probably going to die.

Yeah, exactly. You can't really inhale more oxygen. It's all about exhaling the carbon dioxide. And if you apply that in life, you don't usually have to take on more things. You have to deload. You have to let go of things to feel the stress relief. Because if you don't do that, you're probably fighting unnecessary battles inside, creating stress, choosing stress instead of choosing freedom and controlling what you can control.

And obviously, if you can do that in an environment where you physically couldn't breathe, the same lessons above the water have the same impact.