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Today’s guest is David Jackson!

David Jackson is a Master Instructor with the Oxygen Advantage working now as a breathwork coach. He is a former professional rugby player, accredited UKSCA Strength & Conditioning coach, NASM performance enhancement & corrective exercise specialist on a mission to make breathwork a normal part of our everyday lives.

Having retrained his own breathing after a brain injury in 2013 forced him to retire from professional rugby, he's passionate about helping others change the way they breathe to improve the way they feel, move and perform. He believes that in breathwork there is something for everyone, having worked with professionals seeking better stress management or those suffering with anxiety to professional athletes looking to improve performance and everything in between. David knows how your breath can impact all areas of our body and mind, which is why he is so passionate about helping people use breathwork to fulfil their true potential. Having felt the benefits personally, he wants to share it with others.

Please note there is a short part of a couple of minutes or so that the sound quality isn't great.

In this interview, we discuss:  

• How your breathing affects your health as a whole.
• Why breath-work can be a secret sauce to win more, think better and live healthier.
• How to level up your breathing right now.
• And so much more.

 

Here are some key points that I would advise you to concentrate on

• Always remember your current point need not always be your end point - you can change at any time.
• When one door closes, another opens and you can continue on a path you maybe hadn't considered.
• Always be chasing that next level in your life, to keep that handbrake off in your life.
• You can train your breathing like any other skill.
• An improvement in your breathing can enhance your living systems and cognitive behavior with some work.
• Your breathing is a key system that keeps you alive, it can be dealt with by the body on auto-pilot but if you train your breathe more automatically you can become more efficient and skilled.
• At the moment, there are a lot of athletes who are not working on improving their breathing system, so take advantage of their short-comings and upgrade the key performance area now before it becomes part of the mainstream training methodologies in all sports.
• Shallow breathing or panting is never a good thing, normally a sign of distress and panic.
• Better breathing can help you take in more oxygen each breath to help fuel you brain and movement.
• Better breathing can allow you to deal more efficiently with CO2.
• Better breathing can create better cognitive function.
• Better breathing can help you relax and reduce the level of stress you are feeling.
• Better breathing can be learnt at any age and will benefit everyone.
• By breathing quietly, it tends to make you breath slowly.
• Close your mouth, put the tongue to the top of the mouth and breath quietly the nose will change your life!
• Your brain will always go the path of least resistance.
• Just because something is automatic doesn't mean its optimal.
• Breathing can be affected by the size of breath, the time held, the speed of inhaling and exhaling, how it is expelled etc.
• You need to breathe into your belly, not your chest.
• Learning to breathe better shouldn't be complicated.
• Shallow breathing will not help you catch your breath better than long slow breaths.
•  Being seated or stressed can have a big impact on your body and in turn the quality of your breathing.
• Your posture and how you sit will affect the quality of your breathing and that in turn will affect how your health and body responds to the quality of breathing and quality of air you take in.
• Stress causes will always be there, so we need to build a skill to deal with them, and better breath control and quality of breathing is the key.
• Exercise is a great method to check the quality of your breathing. You shouldn't be out of breath going up stairs!

Join hosts Tim Ray and Shannon McVey as they discuss men that never grow up. They will be delving into immaturity, and the reasons why some people never seem to mature. They will be speaking with Clinical Psychologist, Speaker and Author, Dr. Tony Ortega, as well as Professor, Author, and Inventor, Dr. David Martin.

Dr. Tony Ortega is a first generation Cuban American. He is a licensed clinical psychologist, speaker, and author who has been in practice since 1992, currently serving the LGBTQ population in his private practice located in Brooklyn, New York. Tony is the author of #IsHeHereYet: Being the Person You Want to Be With (Ortega Psychology, PLLC 2017) and as well as the #AreYouHereYet:
How to STFU and Show Up for Yourself, from Ortus Press in 2020. He is also created his first spiritual/LGBTQ comic book, The Accords (TheAccordsComicBook.com).
Tony combines cognitive behavioral techniques along with active coaching and metaphysical principles in his work with clients. He works with his clients within these three principles: Rewrite Your Story, Find Your Voice, and
Live Authentically. Tony can be found online at drtonyortega.com and on social media as @drtonyortega.

Dr. David E. Martin is the Founder and Chairman of M·CAM Inc., the international leader in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance. He is the developer of the first innovation-based quantitative index of public equities and is the Managing Partner of the Purple Bridge Funds. He is the creator of the world’s first quantitative public equity index – the CNBC IQ100 powered by M·CAM. Actively engaged in global ethical economic development, Dr. Martin’s work includes financial engineering and investment, public speaking, writing and providing financial advisory services to the majority of countries in the world. Dr. Martin is the architect and founder of the Global Innovation Commons and is the author of the international legal framework for the Heritable Knowledge Trust and Heritable Innovation Trust programs. He has pioneered global programs to bring corporate and stock market transparency to multi-national extractive industries and has been instrumental in repatriating value to countries which have been subject to corporate and financial abuses. His work on ethical engagement and stewardship of community and commons-based value interests is at the forefront of global financial innovation. Dr. Martin is a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He served as Chair of Economic Innovation for the UN-affiliated Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization and has served as an advisor to numerous Central Banks, global economic forums, the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, and national governments.

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