Science-Based Breathwork to Reduce Stress (+guided breathing)

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Timestamps (to save you some time):
00:00 Stress
00:50 Cyclic Sighing (Physiological Sigh) and its benefits
04:12 Guided Cyclic Sighing breathing
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[@user-lh9to1ju6y]

Thank you, I'm grateful I found this. It works , it improves my mood, .. and keeps the dark clouds away. Your guidance is enormously calming. THANK YOU. Michael from down under.

[@paramsratanpal6551]

Best guided breathwork, your aura,the sounds, excellent work man

[@KitaroWaga]

Thank you!

[@user-lh9to1ju6y]

Thanks

[@mrberryman]

Thank you so much for sharing all this information, I'm really grateful.

[@KitaroWaga]

It's my pleasure! Glad it was helpful to you.

[@BrainDamagedAutist]

You're the best, Kitaro. Thank you.

[@adventurebound2923]

love you kitaro! wish you the best!!

[@pyrobasplas]

I always finish off my last 5 rounds before i go into retention, of every Wim Hof breathing session with cyclical sighing, and i usually do 4x40(+) rounds every morning to keep myself sane... My endurance to everyday stress has definitely gone up quite noticeably, for me at least.

[@kylelondon8718]

Thanks!

[@suuujuuus]

Thanks, Mr Waga!

[@Lakoda26]

wonderful video! I enjoyed having the knowledge drop before the guiding.

[@MeltyMelvin]

Hey Kitaro, you so much for all your guidance on the various breathing techniques. This is a great addition. I’m using a combination in my daily practices, Wim Hoff, box breathing and cyclic breathing; all have a slightly different focus and benefit. Thanks for your enriching videos. Adam 🙏 Ps Huberman Lab is fab - there is a great one on fasting techniques.

[@Sahlofolin542]

Yes I am so grateful people have access to these overly beneficial techniques. Everyone should know of this and practice it their whole lives.

[@jasonmayfieldsr]

Hey Thank you so much... you have been my daily practice... blessings and love

[@davidcooke2804]

Thanks again 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@MauzyrockRC]

Hey thanks! Along with morning WH and then freezing showers (or ice baths) this session makes for a nice alternative or supplement. Thank you!

[@fev0r]

Cyclic sighs before shooting at darts improved my game a lot. My friends are joking about it and yet they started losing more constatly since i do it ❤

[@snelbops]

Always great content, and love your editing styles. ❤

[@sacredechos]

Wonderful 😊thank you !

[@doppelganger7369]

You’re a saint. I learn about all these great techniques and am venturing into a spiritual journey. However 90% of the time, I’m not practicing what I’m preaching. It’s so hard to break behavioural patterns. Do you have any advice on how to consistently bring yourself to apply these methods ?

[@Thareldis]

Not sure if he'd like being called a "saint" considering, where he learned probably most of his meditative breathing techniques and what those circles were like to their members or tather in their eyes followers or students.

[@florinho1994]

So is the cyclic sighing outperforming the wim hof method of hyperventilation breathing?

[@brownfrenchfrog6353]

Hi Kitaro, what are your thoughts on the advance Wim Hof breathing class where at the end, instead of exhaling one inhales and pushed all air in the head. Is that good? Or would you stick to the basics? My WH instructor told me that was breathing exercise on steroids. Do you agree?

[@shantanumundhada360]

hey can you please make one to do before sleep

[@shenlong2po3]

0:07 It's a good way to learn to focus

[@user-xx3wh9dd2l]

if youre talking about the tennis ball drill, i believe he has a video about learning that

[@shenlong2po3]

@@user-xx3wh9dd2l im gonna check this

[@hundekacke]

I prefer the way you transport information over huberman. I can't listen to him haha I just get distracted by his voice.

[@myrkur479]

Can you exhale through your nose?

[@suuujuuus]

I can. I could since I was a child. My sister can do it too.

[@tachyon6376]

I can do it too.

[@user-kz5cw2gj3w]

Excellent! Why learn to breathe properly? The average person breathes 16X a minute. If a person lives to 80, then that means on average they will take 672,768,000 breaths in a lifetime!

[@tachyon6376]

Hi there is just a lack of studies on the practice of intentionally forcing a physiological sigh. The sole reason it got popular is because of Andrew hubberman going on podcasts, otherwise the technique would have had to grow in popularity organically which would definitely have resulting it not seeing the light of day until more research was done. Box breathing has been done for centuries, the technique has been researched extensively meanwhile this technique is less than a year old. I see potential problems like abusing and forcing a response in the body that is designed to only happen when you cry. As well as fast inhales followed by slow exhales and Vice versa doesn’t actually make the diaphragm be in an upper position for more period of time than in a lower position and Vice versa if you actually think about how it moves in a 3D animation. Furthermore, it doesn’t work for me, it probably works when you cry due to the psychological effects of the crying as well as you breathing fast and intensely prior to crying. Furthermore a respectable professor wouldn’t go on podcasts to promote his technique, he would gain popularity the proper way, no shortcuts. Also he sleeps with multiple women apparently. Honestly there are too many holes in him and his research overall and it’s not trusting him.