The Lost Art and Science of Breath - James Nestor | Float Conference 2018
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- čas přidán 25. 03. 2019
- James Nestor is an author, science journalist, and avid floater. In this talk he shares his research and findings from the newest book he is working on all about the science of breath and the impact it has on the human body.
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I started nasal breathing about 5 years ago, I read about it on line and did further research and came across 24/7 nasal breathing, I was having trouble breathing, at my regular weekly gig, I'm a musician going back to my car up a small hill was getting difficult having to rest 2 or 3 times to get my breath, that moring I went into town and kept my mouth shut this is what made me take it seriously within 24 hours my nose was completly clear then I noticed when getting in and out of my car my neck and shoulders had no pain, within a few days my posture had improved dramatically, my lung function improved over the next few weeks and I walk to my car with ease, I still breath through my nose and I now sleep with my mouth shut and get a good nights sleep and when I wake up in the morning I'm in the same position I went to sleep in and go to sleep very quickly.
✨🖖🏾 wonderful! Thank you for sharing!✨
That's amazing!
his book on breath is amazing, I highly recommend. I had been forming questions and this book literally answered them. A gift from God. Peace.
I watched several videos on nasal breathing and taped my mouth shut last night. I woke up this morning, not coughing from nasal drip, no chronic sinus congestion. Pretty amazing. Thank you❤️🙏❤️
Incredible. Pranic energy, and the breath is life. The true healer is the breath
Man, he just sold me his book. Clever guy!
Basically. 🤦♂️
How was it? Im thinking about it
@@TheOneAndOnlyJinglebi one of those books you should read once a year
Yeah! Absolutly... You should read it. I Never read a Book That fast
His book Breath changed my life. Thank you James.
Breathing is indeed a Science as James Nestor shows us. My lungs thank him.
Amazing research ... Gratitude to you ... ignored all these years 🌹🌹🌹
I learned to Breathe from my Music Teacher,Ellen Clement,(grades 7-12)in Marquette Michigan.My next teacher was Jean(foxy) Gywnn in Bedford NY. Who said"Debra,Breathe in the Good
Breathe out the bad",demonstrating, in through the nose out thru mouth.All my life lessons, taught to me by friends, not
Drs.or professors. So please remember, We are all teachers to one another, simply by our Behavior.
Awesome, Well deserved applause for his Research and Time!!
Thank you!!!
Please try the wim hof breathing method he is talked about in this book
I watched one video of this guy from years ago now he’s all over my home page and I’m not complaining 👏🏽
yeah because of the algorithm lol
Sudarshan kriya mentioned here is very beneficial taught by SriSri Ravi Shankar ji.
I love his book Breath.
I am 80 years old and had most of the things you mentioned in your film. One thing that you did not mention was incontinence and frequency of restroom trips.
My incontinence disappeared in two days and frequency of trips to the restroom were cut in half so far.
Are you doing reasurch on this?
He mentions this in the book yes
Your body produces a hormone when you’re in deep sleep that suppresses your need to pee
I am sold! Agree
Amazing talk
amazing?! He is talking about the ancient Indian breathing system. he says yogis but no other mention.
Hi James,
I am about to buy your Book.
Was wondering if doing nasal breathing, throughout the day, and mouth taping for the sleep, will help me with my Hot flushes (Menopausal symptoms).
During hot flushes my body temperature get messed up, to hot, my face become sweaty!!
So, that's the reason why I want to implement nasal breathing in my daily life.
Thanks again
Incredible information 👍🏻
I have ordered this book :)
Can't wait to explore it.
PS. I practice Pranayama everyday.
Me too.
WHY. this is cultural appropriation! why dont order an Indian book?!!
he is talking about Sudarshan kriya. !!!
1000! Love breathing don’t you?
ok so how do we work on this then?
“Jaws” by Kahn & Ehrlich. Breathing changes your jaws. 🙏
as a Biologist my view is, we ignore in our daily autopilot ignorance all the permanent damages we do to ourselves - being ignorant what toxic stuff we encounter all the time. Latent Stress reduces the Frontal Cortex to promote fast reactions. Which further enhances the Autopilot to do conditioned routines. Which usually make everything worse! It takes a sharp interference of the Frontal Cortex to start deliberate analytic reactions. Which may allow for pauses and activating deliberate breathing patterns. In my view, this is a Master Manipulation technique to dominate another person by suppressing their breath response. Needs careful study!!
not a biologist, are you essentially saying that this causes us to stay in an inefficient (resource wise and toxic accumulation) state which keeps us in an alert state of mind and constantly evaluating solutions? as an engineer i notice that if im somewhat sleep deprived or have a sense of urgency I can define and evaluate solutions much faster then if im well slept and at peace?
the only way to be analytical, open, to reflect - requires the frontal cortex of the brain to be fully functional. To be FAST - requires this Frontal Cortex function to be shut down. This is a paradox of nature. The Autopilot is based on conditioned reflexes, that can act the fastest. It takes long training to deliberately shut off the Autopilot. STOP!
A complex situation and Pressure does not allow this - So you depend on the reflexes that are fast. This biological riddle creates the actual world situation we are in. Those who are able to Think and analyze and propose solutions to act on - are overruled by the impulsive autopilots, who act only in the realm of conditioned reflexes in Autopilot. And the Sheeple follow... Hard to train, to never be in the herd...
@@raginald7mars408 reflexes behold all the reactions private from any intelligence source
@@frederiquebertin119 Dwelling in a beautiful Mind Prison- where all the Mind Opiates are...
Super-cool! Thoughts on why is evolution making them shrink tho? Since I started doing yoga and pranayama, I've noticed my sinuses weren't proportional and that my nose was too sunk in to breath properly. Focusing on lifting my tongue to the roof of my mouth makes me have to widen my nose (thereby pulling it forward) to get the same amount of air into my lungs. I have seen that I've changed my face shape this way. I used to look like my dad but now I'm starting to look more like my mom.
I feel I'm counteracting my computer-based life, "text-neck", etc. If you tilt the adjusted photo of the girl upward, like she was greeting someone rather than looking at her phone, the front of her face would be perpendicular to the ground. Is this the "evolution" we're in for? I'm doing my best to opt out... More face to face social interaction!
He was interviewed by Joe Rogan and He mentioned on the Rogan show that it is due to our change in diet.
@@garbagekid09 due to Western diet
MEWING 😀
Hola quiero saber sí hay versión en español del libro breathe, gracias
Todavia no. Pero próximamente.
⛳️⛳️You can buy the book in English and try to translate the book in Spanish on Google translation using your camera. Technology is Amazing and so powerful if we use in right way. Enjoy! I have used this trick during my trips to the countries where I don’t understand the language. 🙏🏻
yesss 💥💥. gave me floating meditations💥💥💥💥🌀🌀🌀👁️
He told us that we are breathing suboptimally but he didn't tell us how we should acctually breathe instead?
I'm guessing there are a lot of variables involved. I know that there are several different practices that focus on breathing techniques, like yoga! Perhaps his book has the information you are looking for: mrjamesnestor.com/breath
Order his book. I’m reading it right now and it gives you insight
The perfect breath should be SLOW, DEEP (Diaphragmatic) and GENTLE
Ossian Wahlstedt read oxygen advantage
Nasal breathing!
In through the nose and out through the nose. Ideally, five/six seconds on both the inhalation and the exhalation. Calm, gentle, into the belly.
Other techniques like Wim Hoff, Holotropic, Kriya are all good but are not designed for minute to minute, hour to hour everyday breathing.
Get Nestor’s book - you won’t be disappointed
Its a truth. Truth is my breath.
I love it.
I have a Yogi Ramacharaka Science Of breath itis 100+ years old but it's gone walkabout and hopefully be back home A.S.A.P.
questions...I ride my bike almost everyday, I commute to work on it, do you have any hints as to how to breath thru your nose when you are exerted?, thanks for entertaining my question
I recently read Mr. Nestor's new book, Breath. In the book, he alludes to getting used to breathing through the nose while exercising. I think its a matter of will power and practice. I hope this helps!
I am reading Breath now and the Chapter Six: LESS describes how he learned to breathe while running.
In the book he discusses taping the mouth shut while sleeping to stop snoring. I've found myself mouth breathing at work while having to wear a mask and a little tape over the center of the mouth stops the mouth breathing and I am still able to talk or breath through the corners of my mouth if I have to. He recommends Nexcare Medical Tape Durapore Cloth. If you have a mask on your face you won't look totally crazy with tape over your mouth 😂
So no ones gonna talk about how he looks exactly like Jason Sudeikis ?
THANK YOU! I was trying to put my finger on it!
It was going well till the point he said aside from a few bulldogs humans are the only ones that snore. I've heard multiple cats snore and various breeds of dogs so that can't be true... which for me discredited the rest of what he said. Quite a bold statement to be so general when trying to make a scientific point. Still interesting points presented although the facts here may be debatable.
It doesnt discredit everything he said. All his mistake did was tell us that there is problems with other animals breathing maybe because of environment.
I agree, good point, but don’t throw the baby out with the bath!
It would be excellent if western civilization would take good breathing techniques seriously.
It sure would! Let's start by normalizing it!
Unless there is money in it.
The facial growth thing is due to domestication, happens in other animals, for instance, dogs. We domesticated ourselves after the agricultural revolution.
Alot because of the food we eat huh
@@justbreathe8835 going from chewing meat several hours a day to drinking smoothies will definitely make your face weak as piss.
Eat will fed animal foods in early child development
The V shot might help out!
so what is the correct way to breathe? he explains the benefits and thats it
His new book, Breath, really goes into it. But slower breath through the nose is the gist.
Do pranayam, you can learn from youtube, I have been doing it for one year now.
He did not say it would cure cancer, but that it might help minimize some of the effects. I have cancer and that makes as much sense as anything else does to me. Why not try it. I have breathed through headaches and it helped a lot. Take it or leave it, but how can breathing be dangerous?
We wish you all the best
I’ve heard other animals snore , not just dogs and humans
Name them?
My cat snores lol. I think James' talk is just focused on humans specifically.
@@Floatconference name non domesticated animals
that humans have domesticated. these animals couldnt survive in the wild without our protection. its sort of the whole point. evolution doesnt favor the inefficient.
@@abdullaiamir9642 I don't know much about animals snoring, especially not non-domesticated ones. As I said before, this talk is about human breath, not all animals.
The Sudarshan Kriya breathing that James Nestor talks at 2:40 is taught at www.artofliving.org programs
He said that crooked teeth aren't a genetic problem, (5:55) but then that humans' airways have shrunk (9:33). I feel like crooked teeth are a genetic problem if we've evolved that way.
It sounds like he is differentiating between genetics and evolution. Thanks for your comment!
SUDARSHAN KRIYA he talks about originated in ancient India several 10000 years back. Science of breath was already decoded by yogis in ancient india
None of his videos tell you how to do it. You have to buy the book.
Don’t buy the book. Heaps of CZcams videos available
prana yam
But how do I fix it?
James has several suggestions in his book, Breath!
James is so handsome. All that correct breathing is paying off 😉
Not sure he was different when young.
You need to get out more
The lady at 4:35 looks like she's from the same era as those skulls.
How in the world is this his only video?!
James Nestor also spoke at the Float Conference in 2015 (czcams.com/video/VfTAgP_8tqo/video.html) and 2014 (czcams.com/video/PjfjNNGii8w/video.html). Plus! If you search his name, you will find lots of videos from other pages.
@@Floatconference Thanks, I did look those all up, and pre-ordered the book. I hope to hear a lot more once it is released.
Check jre
Dude looks like Jason Sudeikis
Karl Ove Knausgaard?
Does he teach sun breathing?
I don't think James teaches any breathing - he just studies it!
8:08 facial morph
Oh my God so we are all pugs! Lol!
I love the talk but in the end he did not teach us how to breathe properly
Some animals do have cooked teeth though. Some. Dogs and cats snore too. These facts can be researched.
Too much selective breeding in domesticated animals. No natural selection.
Patrick Mckeown is that you?
Our brain shrank too. That's why we need transhumanism. Read "The Promethean Right"
How do I breath?
Breathe in and then out. Keep practicing and you’ll get it.
basically through your nose. and less.
I’ve always believed that if you starve a body of oxygen then how can you truly absorb the UV rays or even the nutrient from healthy food some people eat? Skin also has to breath and younger and younger women are caking there faces full of make up, so the long term effects of that aren’t brilliant?
Nasal breathing is very good for your skin, I'm now 80 when I began nasal breathing a few years ago one of the benefits was I had brown old age spots on my hands like little warts you could feel them now almost gone now just faded brown marks and some have vanished.
I don’t look my age of 33 at all and it’s to staying hydrated with drinking plenty of water and also breathing properly.
And, they also weren't injected with tetanus toxin 🤔
So, inhale and exhale through the nose only?
Yeah, the concept is that our bodies are supposed to breath using our noses, and not our mouths. Definitely check out James' book or do some research on nasal breathing. Good luck!
@@Floatconference Thank you so much. Many blessings.
its cuz we dont need big ass mouths we already got twitter
How about the fact there is less oxygen in the atmosphere now than 100000 yrs ago... We take in less oxygen and evolved to adapt our bodies to use less oxygen.
Basically, hyperventilation.
Hm. That's an interesting interpretation. I can definitely understand how some breathwork techniques can feel that way.
James is suggesting breathing through your nose. He's not suggesting increasing the rate at which you are already breathing.
@@Floatconference The yogic breathing amounts to hyperventilation. As well as the free diving stuff.
I recall reading a story of a young fellow who was making quite a name for himself as a big wave surfer out at Mavericks. A dominant male. Apparently he used to do free diving in order to increase his ability to survive long holdowns. So he went to the Maldives during the off season and would practice hyperventilating and sitting on the bottom for as long as he could. He went out alone on one occasion which is not something you're supposed to do because you can enter an ecstatic trance state and lose your instinct for survival. I guess they set the beeper on their watch in order to remind them to head for the surface. When he didn't return his buddies went looking for him. They found him on the bottom just sitting there, dead. His watch was going off and apparently he had a huge grin on his face. He didn't want to come back. That's what mahasamadhi amounts to. I believe his name was Jay Moriarity, or something very close.
the word "perfect," repeated so many times by Nestor, is disorienting & confusing. because it is now so associated with certain facial & body features & our idea of beauty.. i wonder if healthy or functional would be better state the idea.. the skull changes over time & flattens & the mouth shrinks & cannot accommodate the teeth.. thus it is disfunctional & unhealthy..
I think by perfect he means perfectly straight teeth. I see what you mean though
Connected to amphibious... what the fuck?
Waste of time, thought he was gonna talk about how to breathe not talk about teeth and skulls.
Hm. Sorry you feel that way. He explained why we need to breath differently. You can check out his book, Breath, to learn what techniques can help reverse the issues in this talk. There's only so much time at a conference!
Ditto!!! Thanks to "positive energy" no one is pointing out the emperor.
this man is a supervillain
Lol why
He may have good breathing exercises but it feels like an infomercial with a lot of guru fluff.
This is the problem with us today. We don't realize our bad habits, we don't like to be criticized and when someone spends a huge amount of effort and time and gets us the truth, we call it fluff and woowoo.
We also ate much more meat zero grains a million years ago.
I'm sorry, but no way that there is a study possible that would link good or bed breathing to cancer. Correlation is NOT relation.
A rehash of yoga . Hope this guys not taking
Credit for something from the vedas
Hi M. Singh - James credits and mentions breathwork including the vedas throughout his book, Breath. He's not taking credit, but rather pulling together practices and thoughts from many cultures and practices.
@@Floatconference ok thanks for clarifying . It’s comforting that in this instance plagiarism hasn’t manifested itself
I am all about breathing to treat our illnesses but all this propaganda for the theory of evolution is pretty annoying
Lots of claims with zero citation of actual evidence
As someone with ADHD, this is straight-up dangerous pseudoscience. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is hereditary and incurable, so no breathing method would be able to treat ADHD in the way Nestor implied. Claiming cancer can be treated through breathing is absurd at best, incredibly dangerous at worst. No one should be taking this seriously.
There are a significant number of disciplines that use breathwork to calm the body and ease anxiety. ADHD is not curable, but people with ADHD can benefit from breathing exercises. People can use their breath to change the way their body and mind reacts to their surroundings.
I am living proof that meditation and deep breathing every morning and through the day can significantly improve concentration, focus and anxiety, ADD.
That's how it used to be seen a few decades ago. Now, scientists are starting to think it's more likely to be a sleep disorder than "lazy brain not producing enough dopamine for some unknown reason". Besides neuro-imaging data suggesting a strong link between ADHD and sleep issues, the prevalence of sleep issues in those with ADHD is _FAR_ too great to just be coincidence. Eg: In ADHD, one common symptom is procrastinate sleeping, but this is due to the fact you subconsciously know you can't breathe properly while asleep; those with ADHD are significantly more likely to start day dreaming or lose focus, know what else that's a symptom of? Sleep depravation, I mean, ADHD = guaranteed "day _dreaming_ "; it's also almost impossible to feel refreshed after waking up.
If you have ADD, bet you've _never_ breathed properly in your whole life. It took me like 2 years to really understand the muscles I have to engage. It's REALLY fucking hard, it's like snoring, but slightly different. It's a whole body function.
Also, I have to say, it would take a crazy level of ignorance and stupidity to believe a 10-200% increase in airflow would have no effect on ability to concentrate and feel alert.
dunno about ADHD or Cancer, but I was asthmatic for over 30 years & since discovering nasal breathing a year ago I literally haven't had a single attack .. it didn't change overnight, but I'd say within a month or so my life had been changed
I highly recomend for you to research the DSMV and see how the check list for your ADHD comes from.
You are only making the big PHARMA richer.
Cut the video games, meditate, eat healthy and workout.
Metta Karuna sharing breath.research.mysticlotus.org