BREATHWORK

We go beyond our sensory reality – beyond the conscious mind, allowing for the somatic release of the repressed & suppressed emotions bottled and trapped inside the body

Deactivate the default mode network (DMN) – cells found in the prefrontal cortex that connect parts of the brain’s thinking, decision-making making, and interpretive functions, which include the capacity for self-reflection, mental projection, past & future thought, and the ability to interpret others with more objectivity. This program that runs our DMN is from childhood, and is a critical part of the brain & how we run on auto-pilot. **We want to deactivate & reprogram this to create monumental shifts in our lives. (We are up to 95% directed by our unconscious content. It's like driving somewhere and don’t remember the journey. We have 60-70k thoughts/day. 70-80% are negative disempowering & limiting. 95% of those are repetitive and run on a loop)

Transient hypofrontality – temporary reduced activity to the pre-frontal cortex (animals have very underdeveloped – we have analysis but animals are always living in the present moment)

When activity slows, the ego temporarily vanishes & the usual boundaries we experience between ourselves and the world around us melt away.

When we do these deep breathing techniques, we constrict 70k miles of blood vessels which decreases blood flow and electrical activity to the brain by as much as 40%. Wecut off the fuel temporarily to the monkey mind which is where the magic happens. Our ego takes a back seat and the usual boundaries we experience between ourselves & the world around us – the veil begins to thin.

If your brain were a bank, this is like access to a locked vault. The subconscious holds all of the suppressed memories & traumas. We have an opportunity to access and process all of the buried shit. Somatically, we process and release it out of the body without having to talk about it

We enter the theta brainwave state = state of hypnosis in which we are more easily suggestible to change