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Podcast Episode Notes: The Daily Motivation - Episode 443: MASTER YOUR BREATHING To Transform Your Body and Mind | Laird Hamilton
Overview In this episode of The Daily Motivation, host Lewis Howes interviews Laird Hamilton, a renowned waterman and fitness expert, who discusses the transformative power of breath control in improving both physical and mental well-being. The episode emphasizes how mastering breathing techniques can lead to enhanced performance, reduced stress, and an overall empowered state of being.
Key Themes
- Importance of Breath Control
- Mastering breathing is highlighted as a critical tool for self-transformation.
- Breath control can lead to both physical and mental benefits.
- Breath as a Tool for Adaptation
- Hamilton discusses how stress on the body, when managed through breathing, leads to adaptation and evolution.
- Proper breathing techniques can enhance the body's efficiency and energy management.
- Reframing Workout Perspectives
- The episode challenges traditional views of workouts, suggesting that intensity can be achieved through controlled breathing rather than solely through physical exertion.
- Highlights the concept that less can be more when it comes to training.
Key Takeaways
- Mindful Breathing Techniques
- Breath-work can be used to achieve a range of states: calmness, energy elevation, and aggressive output.
- Controlled breathing is portrayed as a practical method for meditation, making the concept accessible even to those who find traditional meditation abstract.
- Discipline in Breathing vs. Physical Activity
- It requires more discipline to engage in mindful breathing than to perform traditional exercises.
- Breath control can mimic the effects of physical workouts without the need for movement, challenging the listener's understanding of fitness.
- Scientific Basis for Breathing Practices
- Hamilton emphasizes a scientific approach to breathing, breaking it down into practical steps that yield tangible results for athletes and non-athletes alike.
Quotes
- "When you start stressing the body through the breathing, then it adapts and becomes more efficient."
- "It almost takes more discipline to do nothing than it does to do something."
Additional Resources
- Lewis Howes’ New Book: *The Greatness Mindset*
- A resource aimed at helping individuals unlock their potential through mindset shifts and practical exercises. [Order here](https://www.amazon.com/Greatness-Mindset-Unlock-Power-Today/dp/1401971903?&linkCode=sl1&tag=lewhow07-20&linkId=f014396d56e7ce64bdeac8bbd75a4f24&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl).
- Listening Options:
- For more insights, listeners are encouraged to check the full episode on *The School of Greatness* and subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Conclusion This episode of *The Daily Motivation* offers a profound insight into the power of breathing as a means of transformation. Laird Hamilton's expertise provides listeners with practical techniques that can enhance their daily lives, challenge existing fitness paradigms, and promote a greater understanding of personal discipline.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation show.
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0:51What's opened up for you? What's been available for your body, your mind, your relationships, your health, your businesses when mastering this new way of breathing? It definitely brings a certain amount of control over your system that you didn't have. You have a sensitivity. You have more control now in these last two years than you did for 40 prior years studying this. For sure. Wow. Just because of the sequencing of breathing, the way the body reacts to it. When you put stress on the system, then the system adapts. That's how it works. I mean, evolution is because there's stress on the situation.
1:26There's an adaptation, and then we evolve. And when you start stressing the body through the breathing, then it adapts and becomes more efficient. And you start to get control of you. You find, you know, you can breathe yourself into real calmness. Yeah. You can find you can use the energy to bring your energy up and make you more aggressive or more powerful. You can control your lactic acid, you know, threshold. I mean, it just it seems somewhat boundless. Yeah. You can just be not moving and put the system through an intensity that is more intense than moving all the parts. And I think that's, again, part of the mastery of it.
2:03Like, you know, we're so trained to believe that working out is something that, you know, you bang iron and you run and you bang and you and it's all this is hammering. And then we have to feel sore and feel like someone punched you to feel like that was a good workout. Oh, yeah, me too. You know, can you walk? I can't walk. I can't walk either. When you can go into a situation where you're almost sedentary, you're laying there, then maybe we make you do a couple of pushups and then you just go to a whole nother place. It kind of shines a light on really what is training and what is working out and what is being in shape and what is all of that.
2:37We try to box up. We try to package and say, well, this is it. And we have a pretty good mindset about what we think it is. If you can implement strict breathing, it doesn't know the difference between that and you running and forcing your body to breathe hard. at the end your body's like okay well i need oxygen for whatever reason it is either because i don't have it or because i'm burning it off at the end it needs it it needs it doesn't need to know why and so then you have to get it how do i get it i got to do it through the breathing this is a mechanical meditation system you can actually implement a process to meditate not an ethereal process yeah not something where you get to a swami and he tells you go to this thing and And from my scientific, practical mindset, where I come from, it doesn't work.
3:23I can't get there. It's like, well, you know, transcendental and I'm like, okay, yeah, that's great. But when you tell me, breathe this many times, exhale, hold, breathe again, exhale, hold, you're going to see this. You're going to feel this. Athlete. I'm coming from math. I'm coming from practical, like, you know, this does that, that does this. So what's the purpose of oxygenating your body? What's that purpose? What's that do for the body? once it's complete. Well, I mean, ultimately, it definitely will allow you to work harder. It's easier just to go, I'm going to get on my bike and I'm going to ride for, you know, two hours straight.
3:57Yeah, yeah. Or I'm going to go in here and we've got this weight and I'm just going to bang this weight or I'm going to sprint back and forth across this field. It almost takes more discipline to do nothing than it does to do something. But that's kind of the irony of the story.
4:22Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of The Daily Motivation, and I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to click the link in the description. That will take you to the full episode of our main podcast on The School of Greatness. And if you are loving The Daily Motivation, please follow us over on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review over on Apple podcast right now. And if you want more exclusive content and ad free listening experience, make sure to subscribe to our greatness plus channel on Apple podcast right now. And if you want to get even more inspiration from our world-class guests and learn how to improve your life and take it to the next level, then make sure to sign up for the greatness newsletter and get it delivered right to your inbox over at greatness.com slash newsletter.
5:12Again, have an amazing day and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.
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Laird Hamilton delves into the art of mastering one's breathing to bring about transformation in both the body and mind. He discusses the profound impact of proper breathing techniques on physical and mental well-being, emphasizing the importance of breath control and mindfulness. Hamilton shares insights on how breath-work can enhance performance, reduce stress, and improve overall health. His discussion provides practical guidance for listeners looking to harness the power of conscious breathing as a tool for achieving a more balanced and empowered state of being.
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