Will Humphreys spent 20 years managing chronic heart palpitations before meditation and breathing work finally stopped them. He credits four things: meditation, better breathing, improving his work environment, and becoming a better leader by recruiting well and removing poor fits.
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But the main thing I learned it was meditation. You probably heard a ton about meditation. We'll do a different podcast if you want, but I am heavy into it and it took me a long time to get into it because it always felt really weird to me. I'm a western medicine kind of guy, giving my pills. Get out of my way. I want to get back to work. But there was something about taking time just to learn how to breathe, just to learn how to let my mind go where it needed to go and let it do what it needed to do that dramatically helped. Now listen, I don't want to negate all the work I did to help improve my work environment around learning how to recruit better, how to get rid of people that weren't good fits for the team, how to be a better leader. Like all those things were huge. But in the short term, in the very near and now learning to handle those four legs of a table completely stopped my palpitations. I.