A short Heroic Wisdom Daily podcast episode (Brian Johnson) summarizing the book Breathe In, Breathe Out: Inhale Energy, Exhale Stress (authors named in the episode). The episode argues intentional breathing restores energy and reduces stress, highlights practical breathing techniques (nose, slow, diaphragmatic/microbreaths), and promotes the app’s Breathing101 and book notes as resources.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to Heroic Wisdom Daily. Today's book Breathe In, Breathe Out Inhale Energy, Exhale Stress by James Warren Jeffrey Migdow A grounded practical guide to harnessing the power of intentional breathing to improve health, focus and emotional balance. I'm a big fan of breathing. Check out Breathing101 in the app and a collection of the best books on breathing. Getting your breathing right matters more than you may think if you aren't training it. You you're missing out again. Check out the app for breathing 101 and the notes on this book and a ton of others. Here's your one minute summary. You want to breathe smarter, not harder. Shallow, habitual breathing steals energy. Deep, controlled breaths restore. Breathing is your built in tool for stress. It can be used to reduce tension, ease pain, manage cravings and calm anxiety. All peak performers from Navy Seals to professional athletes focus on their breath oxygen. Your achievement. Increasing the efficiency of your breathing supports peak performance in sport, work and life. You want to try new breathing techniques? These are different practices in the book. You can check out Breathe in through your nose, slowly and lowly. As Patrick McGowan says down in your diaphragm, microbreathing equals macro impact. Small breath resets throughout the day can broadly improve your energy, calm and clarity. I can't overstate the benefits I have personally experienced from training my breath. Few things have had as big of an effect on my own ability to create calm, confidence and equanimity than training my breath. Check out again the notes on this book and all the other notes on the great books on the science of breathing and breathing 101. I think you'll love it.
