A short first-person YouTube reflection by Hinesh Chauhan about coping with stress, anxiety, and cognitive overload. He recounts attending a plant-medicine (ayahuasca) retreat in Ecuador where a shaman told him to "breathe and surrender," a phrase that became his personal motto and a simple breathing-based practice to return to the present moment.
What do you say to yourself? Or what do you think when it's. It's just not working? When everything inside of your head is just chaos? Call it stress, anxiety, being overwhelmed, cognitive. Cognitive overload. What do you do? And I remember in. In all. All my. My struggles or the work that I've pursued to be able to overcome my challenges, one of them was pursuing plant medicine and went on this retreat in, In South America, in Ecuador. And I remember doing a. My first round of ayahuasca and it just wasn't working. And I remember going to the shaman saying, what the F, dude, What the F. And he just calmly. First he laughed at me and then he looked me in the eye eyes and said, breathe and surrender. So that's the. That's actually become my motto. So every time things are a bit crazy in here, which is really damn often I close my eyes, take a couple breaths and just surrender. Surrender to the moment. Just wipe out everything. Focus on that breath and it provides for a reset. So breathe and surrender. Surrender to what is. And it brings you in the present moment.
