Breath for Planetary Ease and Longevity

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But what if I told you that breathing is so much more than just keeping us alive? Ed Harold blends the fields of neuroscience and the wisdom of contemplative traditions into effective strategies to improve health, performance and overall well-being. Ed's fluency and mindfulness-based strategies, combined with a belief in the human potential, gives him the depth and understanding to meet individuals and group needs across industries and platforms. Ed joins us to talk about breathe for planetary ease and longevity. Welcome Ed.

Speaker 2: It's great to be with you Richard, thank you.

Speaker 1: Would you start us out by taking us by a short practice of bring us here and now? Certainly. So a lot of what

Speaker 2: is going on in the body is out of alignment. We've lost the symmetry that we've had in the body in our youth. Compensating measures have taken place from the genius of our DNA and RNA unconsciously and this affects how the brain works.

So let's look for child-like symmetry for the next couple minutes of our life. Alignment with something greater than ourselves, that magical presence that's inside each of us serving us. So feet on the ground. There are neurons in your feet and as you press your feet down they're communicating to your brain that you are safe, that you are grounded, that it's okay to be in your body right now with no need to escape, fight or flight or freeze. As the feet anchor down onto our home planet begin to engage and contract the larger muscles of your legs, your buttock muscles, your hip muscles and you'll begin to feel pulsing energy that moves north and south in the hamstrings and the quadriceps and moves in a circular fashion through your hips and moves like an ancient quilt through your buttock muscles and this begins to awaken the pelvic core and the deeper grounding rods of the human heart as it connects through your beautiful legs. The next spot where we can awaken and bring awareness to and self-awareness to is to draw up on the reproductive organ, to draw up on the pelvic floor and to draw up on the buttock muscles and just pulse up on those three points like you were doing reps in a gym set. Now allow the inhale to travel bringing your awareness to your spine and lengthening your spine as much as you possibly can north and south starting with your coccyx bone adjusting your hips, balancing the pelvic bone through the sacrum so it is completely neutral.

Life is about foundational principles. Now moving through your lumbar spine the larger bones in the low back begin to get length. Moving through your thoracic spine the slightly rounded part of the mid-back begin to get length. Drop your shoulders and close your back and begin to get length through the cervical spine all the way up to the occipital ridge where the spine and the back of the skull meet shifting your awareness to the features of your face and begin to turn off your eyes that you use to scan the external environment. Turn your eyes off.

Relax your cheekbones and the muscles you use to move your eyes completely and just let your eyes float freely in your sockets and notice how that affects your pituitary gland which is three milliliters behind your eyes and your hormonal secretions. Is there a sense of ease and we haven't even gotten to the breath yet. Now the low jaw. If we could just relax our low jaw and trust that this moment is safe. I am welcomed in this moment just as I am. There is nothing to fear. There's nothing to say.

There's nothing to defend or attack. And allow your tongue the rest on the upper palate and separate your teeth. Now shift your awareness to the pace of your breathing and notice the bottom of your brain gives you the ability to control the pace of your breathing and as you begin to slow it down and you plug in to your true self not your separated self. Something begins to emerge. Something in your consciousness that will be very attractive to you. Breathing even slower now and noticing the details of inhale and the expansion that comes from that.

Noticing the details of exhale and notice the contraction that comes from that. Simply observing sunrise and sunset. High tide and low tide.

Winter and summer. It is all taking place as you breathe. If you feel the mind wander away from the meditations simply go back to step one press the feet down. Step two squeeze the thighs. Step three lengthen the spine.

Step four relax the eyes and jaw. Now you're in alignment. Perfect alignment for you. Now breathe slower. And as you do this you'll notice there's a gap after your inhale and there's a gap after your exhale.

Now use your brain and create a larger gap. In other words after the inhale is complete stop breathing for a couple seconds. After the exhale is complete stop breathing for a second or two. The foundation of mindfulness is to first empty the mind of what no longer serves us productively.

Notice how this occurs organically without willpower by being in alignment by slowing the breath and creating a brief retention period without strain. Notice what falls away. Notice what emerges.

You are connected to something bigger than yourself that remains silent most of our life. So just take the next minute and try to improve inside yourself in what we just taught. Feet on the ground straight spine soft face super slow in and out breath with just a brief pause and that pause switch is huge.

And when you feel ready begin to deepen your breath and simply acknowledge that you can breathe a lot deeper right now than you could five minutes ago without strain and notice what this brings to your mind your body your soul. Thank you very much Richard.

Speaker 1: I'm too blank. No I'm not but I have a question that comes up that was wonderful and we can incorporate it into let's say that we sit at the desk and work eight hours a day. We can do this a minute at a time. We could take one minute out of every hour. Is that true and just do this for one minute a mere 60 seconds every hour.

Speaker 1: Yeah I've been teaching this for 25 30 years now in businesses and you know only the ego tells us you know a one minute break isn't enough and it's not going to help. And we can see that the efficiency that we can create by using the breath control and these little brain breaks every minute allows us more energy in the afternoon more clarity in how we string our thoughts together and analyze the opportunity in the moment.

Then there's less to cool down in the evening hours before we go to sleep so that we can get that seamless transition from conscious to unconscious or from light to dark.

Speaker 1: Well it also seems like an opportunity to give up those moments of Bob borrowed my stapler and didn't ask me and the amount of I'll use I have a bad word but I wanted to use there for a minute how much stuff can be built up around that moment. And when we bump into it in one of those minutes I bet we're going to find ourselves chuckling and give it it's just gonna like poof like a cloud.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah so when that happens just notice this temporary moment of insanity that's come and has emerged in our mind. It is an illusion nothing can hurt you outside of you without your permission.

Every person placing every person place and thing that you see outside of you is a mirror for people places and things inside you and how you perceive yourself in the world and how you allow the world to see you. Nothing can hurt you without your permission.

Speaker 2: Right. I know we have to allow that thing to hurt us.

Speaker 2: Yes and people I would just offer that when we're when we've been triggered and we sense that we've been violated. I get it it hurts there's pain there but what if we could just pause for a moment and say to ourselves why is this moment occurring what is its purpose it's not designed to cause me pain it's designed for neuroplasticity of my self-awareness and it's designed to wake me up to where I might be asleep.

Speaker 1: Hmm and and for me from having done multiple shows with you and worked with you it seems also like a learning opportunity but that's how my brain kind of operates my brain is always looking to learn and it seems like an opportunity of learning when something does cause it to either trigger. I'm not talking about life-threatening situations I'm talking about just every day we do get in our grill and grind on us for a minute and we go what is that I'm grinding what what you must be kidding me what a joke that I'm having you know what you what you called in one of your great videos on Instagram you called it a faulty brain message and that made me chuckle because oh man I have a rolodex of faulty brain messages I am going to get rid of that entire drawer now because they're they're not serving me really that's that's where I try to get it to is it's not it's not making my immune system better it's not making world peace it's not it's nothing it's just a drawer full of ridiculousness.

Speaker 2: You know we live at a time where things are things are happening quickly and when I was a kid I was taught that my mind controlled my heart and my heart worked for my mind and now I'm beginning to see that my heart is actually the CEO of my mind and my level of emotional self-awareness as I go through moment by moment second by second of my life is a valuable tool in regards to the opportunity to continue to learn and evolve and become a better human while at the same time not placing attention on old thought forms old habits and desires that have become outdated and we're actually calling causing myself pain and illness.

Speaker 1: And what is the this is slightly sidestep but it's in it's still in the same realm doing this minute today has anybody studied this I'm there are several questions here in bullet points has anybody studied this if you did the did a one minute meditation or just breath work every hour of your work day just eight hours a day wouldn't that seem to benefit our immune system in the long haul without a doubt

Speaker 2: so we have this technology in front of us and it emulates or radiates out a blue light which causes all sorts of issues in the brain it causes hypoxia in the eyes straining of the eyes so there's a disturbance to our breath this fires off the lower autonomic part of the brain the old mammalian brain and everything begins to shut down and you have to work so much harder moment by moment and you get weaker so much faster in the micro and the macro of what's going on in your life so this sarkadian biology that we hear so much about these days it's really important to do what our ancestors were doing and get outside get out in that early light that early light triggers your pineal gland to store melatonin you don't have to stare at the sun but just get the ambient light and that is the first thing that you can do to assure that you're going to have enough melatonin because there's clocks in your eye and when the sun is high it's storing melatonin when the sun goes down the clock in your eye tells your immune system to secrete melatonin relaxation has become a lost art form in our culture everything is high edge how much can i get done i'm always right you're always wrong the bottom line is is do you want to be right or do you want to be happy so what are some tools that we can do so that we can stay in rhythm with nature like our ancestors did who had a perfect 24-hour rhythm when you think about the onset of false light it's having a debilitary effect on our immune system our thymus our digestion our patterns of movement in the brain but the big thing it throws off is our

Speaker 1: breathing and i'm stepping sideways here for a moment because i i can't remember if we've talked about this i've heard you say somewhere that we're the only species that really can control our breath can do the kind of practice that you just walked us through or just you know coming in contact with our our breath our breath and controlling our breath to alter our state and my question is you mean dogs don't even do this we've talked a bit about dogs backstage and i think dogs are much smarter than humans in many ways they don't do this either they don't control their breath i used to hang out with a labrador and she sure looked like when she got through running she's seeing maybe it just is automatic but they don't they don't control their breath like we can

Speaker 2: that's a question they don't they don't have a dual autonomic switch in their brain that can override what's taking place so a dog lives seven to ten years why is that happening because every time the dog exercises it doesn't have the switch to close its mouth and breathe through its nose it hyperventilates through its mouth and when it does that its blood pressure goes up its immunity shuts down it has a sympathetic overload the heart rate goes sky high if we could teach our dogs to nasal breathe when they were out hiking and running they would live 70 80 years just like a human but

Speaker 1: they are smart enough that when they get scared or something traumatic happens or they get in a fight then they shake and people think it's because they are scared or having a trauma and what they're doing is that they're show they're dumping off the excess cortisol from the dump of the adrenaline rush that they had while they were in a fight or scared or some incident occurred so they have that built in but i hadn't thought about the breath work well i think you just like the idea of a dog living as long as i did go ahead

Speaker 2: yeah all we got to do is teach them how to close their mouth and breathe through their nose uh yeah you segue into something here uh you see where we were talking about mouth breathing i lost it but oh yeah so when you're triggered at the workplace or where you can't move you're pushing back against an ancient system which is only designed for movement when you're triggered to release the cortisol and the sympathetic response so if we go back into our history an event occurs you're trying to get food or not becomes another animal's food you move you're releasing this through movement now the same thing basically biologically is happening now in the brain every time someone has a different opinion than me or there's a pushback or there's some sort of criticism so we end up we sit in this chair and then we try to mediate the stress response when for thousands of years we moved vigorously when this biological system was activated inside our body this fight or flight freeze so it's important to know number one you're doing really really well with your stressors because you're handling a lot of this seated and it might not seem like you're making progress but you're handling it a lot better than what you were doing five years ago when you are triggered in a seated position if you do have the ability to go for a walk you know just take 10 15 20 steps if you do have the ability to control your breathing and you know some of the different breathing techniques that you can bring up for 10 seconds 20 seconds 30 seconds you can really push back on those ancient mammalian sympathetic switches so that you don't get all worked up or if you did get worked up you can land the plane and get back inside your body and kind of settle down so humans the container of the human being is going through a massive change of trying to hold more energy with a higher heart rate in unusual ways to the species so what is going on you see people leaking so in other words when we first started breathing I did the best of my ability not being in the room with people or not being on a zoom to give you tools for physical alignment starting with connecting to the earth grounding engaging your legs and your pelvis getting centered straightening your spine so you can transport as much oxygen and carbon dioxide refreshingly through your brain and your central nervous system and your organs and this gives us tools this alignment because most folks are leaking energy if you look at their posture you can see energies leaking out of their back their shoulders around it they can't hold a charge then the head comes forward and the head comes forward then we get locked into the old subconscious patterning you see folks leaking energy out through the belly through leaky gut and not being able to absorb their nutrients and have strong elimination so there's all sorts of ways we see energy leaking out of folks so you know on some level we're doing really really well as a species we're making huge transitions in the last 10 years but there's still a lot of work to do

Speaker 1: and in doing breathing is there a there is a point but I have to ask the question is there a point where the body can remind us or craves it enough to poke at us or I don't quite know how to express I want to say addicted to but that's not really the phrase I want is there a point at which the body will go hey you need to do some breathing or get we get hooked enough on doing it I know people that have been meditating for decades and they really have a practice that they do on a regular basis I'm talking more about the workplace breathing or the is there a point at which we get hooked for lack of a better phrase

Speaker 2: that's a great question so it's a habit we are all habit driven creatures if you're breathing through your nose you're probably going to have about 60 000 independent thoughts every 24 hours problem is 99 of those thoughts are going to be the same thoughts as yesterday so you have to consciously start to reprogram your subconscious if you're shallow breathing and chest breathing and mouth breathing you're probably going to have about 90 000 thoughts every 24 hours because the brain sees the mouth breathing as a threat the amygdala will be looking around through your sense organs all day long for the impending doom and the air raid sirens will be on and you'll be in a bunker all day long and you're going to fry your brain in your neural circuits it's going to be very very difficult to change habit so when you think about your brain you can use an ancient model or you can use a modern model but for the just for today's show we'll just simplify it there's basically five television sets in your brain that your mind has access to and your right prefrontal lobe is a television set that plays the future It is a space where there aren't any words, there's not any mathematical formulas, it's simply intuitive. There's a felt sense of curiosity that my notice, my consciousness, is outside of my normal comfort zone. Your left prefrontal cortex is a television set that you've used your entire life to analyze situations, create situational awareness in a strategy through words and numbers and percentages of how you're going to interact with the opportunity in the present moment. If you go to the top of your head, the higher brain, there's a television set there where all new conscious awarenesses around old programming initiate.

In other words, you had this aha moment where there's a new show being played around an old person, place or thing and you find interest in it. It has allowed your body to embrace this new thought form and there's a felt sense to it. The lower part of your brain is your autonomic part of your brain. It has been around for millions of years, it's in the andrithal brain, it balances your hormones, time sequences, hunger and thirst, procreation, everything that's taking place underneath your conscious awareness, thousands and thousands of things, countless things. Now right in front of that is your medulla ablagata and this is closely linked to how you're breathing, the length, depth and pace of your inhale and exhale will trigger respiratory glands in the television show of the subconscious old mammalian brain.

The last television set in the head is the hindbrain and this is all reruns. This is all things that have occurred in the past and it is predominantly how you're showing up in the present moment, 55 seconds out of every 60 seconds. So that tells you basically every minute of your life, 95% of it you're basically asleep in your subconscious and you're not conscious to the opportunity of growth that's available to you because you're locked into the old subconscious brain. The conscious brain is amazing. It can do 40 things in a second, it can balance 40 files in that higher television set show. Now the hindbrain is unbelievable.

It has 40,000 television screens of stored events and it's kind of in control of us. So when you're looking to change a habit, it's really easy to do that when your feet are on the ground, your outside, your spine is straight, you breathe slower, you notice the information, how does it move through your two prefrontal cortexes? Well new information comes in the right lobe and then moves into the left and you make sense of it. Then it's transported back to your executive learning center at the top of your brain and you go, aha, that's outside of my normal thought form.

That person might not be a jerk or that person who I thought was nice is a jerk, whatever it may be, but there'll be a new awareness there and as far as you know in that moment, time will stop, time space will stop and that new conscious awareness will begin to wedge itself into your hindbrain, the reruns and it'll start to update your files in the back of your head and this takes time. The fastest way to create a new habit is to slow your breath down, tone down the amygdala, quiet the subconscious and become fully present in the top of your head or some folks would call it the top of your brainstem. The top of your brainstem is closely connected to the voice in your heart. So if you focused your mind on the top of your brainstem and you focused your mind in the core of your heart, you would hear the same voice.

Speaker 1: I think the thing that amazes me the most is that how much quieter my brain is when I practice my brain is quieter and my brain tends to be kind of like a bowling alley because there's a lot of stuff going on in there, it's thinking and it's really nice to just be here engaged in the conversation. That's it. It's an amazing feeling. I don't know why we don't want more of it organically.

Speaker 2: Well, I speak about breathing. Oh, ego is the problem. The ego is never wrong and it loves when it takes you on its journeys where you beat the snot out of yourself or somebody else and you're just totally separate from your purpose of being here on earth. Richard, I teach breathing, therapeutic breathing that can be applied athletically, corporately, any relationship, medically. What I'm teaching is very hard.

It is not easy. It basically you're asleep. You're not awake.

My job is to awaken you. There is so much nuance and detail to every single inhale and every single exhale. It escapes our awareness. We don't find value in it and we just kind of like to be all windy in the head and monkey mind or whatever it might be.

But when you actually take a good look under the hood and you begin to see that you have the ability to control your breath and you look at the details and nuances, just not in the forebrain but in the background of your mind, then you begin to see that you are connected to an immense source of human power that can never be taken away from you from any external events.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 2: Yeah. The metaphor for me came up with is the idea of like when you get a new car or in key and zoom off because it's another car. It's a different car than you've ever had. And you get in and you do that and you don't think about anything because you just assume, like we do about our bodies, we're breathing as you say, we're all breathing right now.

What do we need to know about breath? We're doing it. It's happening. It came with the pack.

It came with the equipment. I'm breathing. Look, I'm breathing.

And one of the things that you talk about, we're jumping direction ever so slightly here, but it's really important for people to understand this part, I think, is that I've heard you say or read or by now it's a blur. Breathe deeper, live longer. I think people think that breath is all about head space and meditation and clearing your head and blah, blah, blah.

That's what a lot of people think about this kind of work. Whereas what you're at the other side that you're talking about is that we actually live longer with a better lung capacity. Could you talk about that and the other benefits heart and everything? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: So all chronic disease can be traced back to a respiratory disorder initially. We began to breathe differently for a myriad of different reasons from the ego. Then we were breathing the first seven years of our lives. And this began to put stress on the nervous systems of the body, stress on our blood pressure, stress on our heart, and then it began to fry our brain. As this dysfunctional breathing is moving through the world, we can begin to see that all the medicine in the world is not going to fix it.

It's actually getting worse. When you think about chronic disease and shallow breathing and respiratory disorders, this really dry, fast wind that moves through our throat disturbs our thyroid. And the thyroid, which is the master gland of the body underneath the pituitary gland, then becomes hyper or hypo. And all of this is going to affect the quality of your blood, your ability to create suction and pressure for circulation. And when this becomes disturbed and the blood becomes acidic, you are going to create inflammation. And when inflammation starts, it's okay.

Inflammation is a beautiful transmitter of electricity. But when it becomes more than what circulation can move through, your genitive disease begins to form in first your heart, heart disease, and number one killer, number two, then it's going to begin to form in your organs, cancer. Now, it's really important to know that you can avoid cancer and heart disease simply by breathing through your nose and breathing into the lower lobes of your lungs, low and slow. So if you just took your hands and you brought them onto the ribs on the lower side of your body, below your chest, and you let your hands rest there with a straight spine, the lower lobes of your lungs are where you want to take your inhale. The physiology of lower lobes of the lungs, there's no adrenaline, there's no cortisol, there's no sympathetic nerve endings, and you're not going to be out of breath. So if you can start to strengthen your thoracic diaphragm, which is the primary muscle of inhale, which is right where your hands are, it moves down on the inhale and sucks air like a vacuum into the lower lobes of your lungs, where there is oxygen rich, there is parasympathetic nerve endings of serotonin and dopamine that create a relaxation response in your digestive system and in your blood pressure, heart rate, neurological system, and it has the largest supply of hemoglobin absent of our bone marrow.

And hemoglobin is the molecule that oxygen binds to to move through your blood vessels, your capillaries and arteries. So if you can just get the air into your lower lobes of your lungs right there, everything in your life is going to change in a matter, I'd say two weeks. If you could take a minute, every couple hours at work, place your hands on your lower ribs, close your eyes, turn off your left prefrontal cortex, straighten your spine and breathe as slowly as you can, only into the lower and the midpoint to your lung, and then exhale completely through your nose. Your entire physiological and psychological makeup is going to change almost overnight.

Speaker 1: And is I'm signing up for that now, that sounds wonderful. And is this part of the taking advantage of the HPA access? And would you explain what I'm saying when I'm asking that? Yes. It sounds like it.

Speaker 3: So I lectured a few years ago about the future of the brain at the Aspen Brain Lab. And I'm not a neuroscientist, I'm a researcher, I'm an educator, I'm a breath experiencer. So it was an honor to be asked, you know, to be around all these famous neuroscientists and speak about the future of the brain.

It was quite an event. So when you think about the hard drive of the human system, at the bottom of the brain, there is an amazing system that we've used so well to survive as a species called the HPA access. And this is your hypothalamus, your pituitary gland, and your adrenal gland.

Now in ancient times, when you needed to get food and you were hungry, or you needed to get away from something to not become another animal's food, this HPA access would fire off. Your hypothalamus would kick up your respiration. It would stimulate the pituitary gland to organize the various departments of the body to attack or defend.

And it would go down the central nervous system of the spine to the adrenal gland to suction up a ton of cortisol and adrenaline and bring yourself in to hyper-focus, to either get food or not become food. Now this system is extremely, extremely wired in to our mind and body and is the predominant role of self-preservation. And self-preservation is going on all the time underneath all of our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and habits, whether we're aware of it or not.

The primary role of the species is to survive. So my version of this was that in modern times, we're being triggered by thought, we're being triggered by memory, we're being triggered by uncomfortable emotions, but the body is responding to it as if we need food or we're going to be eaten and the HPA access fires off and all sorts of debilitating things take place that cause early aging. Digestion will stop. All the energy leaves the gut and goes out into the arms and legs to attack, fight, or flight. The body is flooded with cortisol for every thought and feeling that you're uncomfortable with as if you're going into war.

So you're draining your reserves and your immunity goes way, way down because you shut off your gut where 80% of your immunity function and hormone comes from. So my offering to the neuroscience community was to live in the modern world. Number one, notice I've been triggered. Slow your breath down. Don't allow your breath to speed up. So push back against the hypothalamus where you normally would breathe fast in danger because it's just a thought. You've made this thought real.

This person plays your thing in this moment. Slow your breath down and rather than trigger your hypothalamus, trigger your hippocampus, your executive, the CEO of your brain that runs the whole underlink underneath it. Slow your breath down and create safety in your brain rather than threat. Then notice what happens to the trigger. Now, when you do this, the hippocampus is not going to trigger the pituitary gland. It's going to trigger the pineal gland and what's there, serotonin and melatonin. I don't need to go to war for the cap being off the toothpaste or I can't find my car keys.

I don't need to go to war for this. So moving into the hippocampus and moving in to serot... the pituitary gland and then into the serotonin. PS access for the modern human overriding the neanderthal human access of the HPA access. So HPS, hippocampus, penal, serotonin and we could change almost overnight if we can rewire and update, create new software in our brain every time we're triggered.

Speaker 1: There was a famous sordidzman, Dr. Ricci, cinematically and in real life and it was amazing to watch him in film. He was portrayed as somebody who could take on a hundred sordidzman himself.

But in reality, he could take on a hundred sordidzman by himself and I would watch the film back when I was studying film and I saw a lot of films that he was in and even though he was an actor, I also saw documentaries about him and he was a serious practicing samurai and you would see him and this was like Bruce Lee as well. They stop, they breathe and they become the person that is about to go into battle and it's really quite a transformation and I think that's what you're talking about where they're going from an HPA. Well, I'm not sure which way they're kicking and they're not kicking in serotonin, that's for sure. Maybe they're doing the reverse where they're going into an HPA mode becoming adrenalineized but they become absolutely at peace and completely centered before the moment of action.

Speaker 2: Yeah, so these folks were in the quantum space. They weren't fighting the environment. They were using the environment at a quantum level to push away danger and the intruder, remembering that smaller molecules control the behavior of larger molecules. So the more you become more aware of your subtle self, the more you become more aware of the little nuances of your emotional self-awareness, you begin to merge with your environment and the inherent energy of the earth. So if you have control of the quantum space and you get comfortable in that, you're going to have complete command over anyone who's in the old physical space using the HPA access.

Speaker 1: Okay, that's a whole separate show talking about the quantum field. That's a great, that's great. That explains so much about also watching gunmen. Go ahead.

Speaker 2: Now this is what's happening. What's happening in medicine? What is happening right now? So it's been about 80 years but what we're beginning to see is that quantum physics is the foundation of biology. And when you can start to work with light and you're working with light particles, as there's many more atoms in you than the 50 trillion cells that are in you. The 50 trillion cells that are in your body, science has proven that 99% of these cells is pure space.

And what's in this space? Quadrillions of atoms, subatomic particles, electrons. So what we're seeing in medicine now through computers and technology and we're using physicists and quantum principles to take a look a little deeper at the molecular level of these particles and how that light interplays with what we can typically see through our 600 muscles, 200 bones, 300 joints, five nervous systems, 12 organs and how that all works because that's all working based on the quantum principles of this universe.

And physicists are in the process of untangling this. And as we're doing this, as we're speaking right now in 2024, as we start to take on these principles, I would say to you that if you can start to practice some of these principles, you're going to live at least another 20 or 30 years longer than your ancestors did. And that comes with responsibility and accountability, with a moral responsibility to be unselfish, to give all you have to others, to let go of our small self, because we're all going to be on the planet a lot longer. And we've figured out a way to come together and hold hands because every of the eight billion people on the earth, every single person is important.

Speaker 1: I've been in groups at retreat, not so much at retreats at conferences, where there's been 2000 people in a circle, a large field, and all took a moment and breathed together.

And it was quite extraordinary to have that kind of energy and mass. And that leads me to a question of, how can we use breath to get more kindness into the world? We seem to have lost kindness, or at least that's my view.

It's still available, it's still out there, but it doesn't seem that people don't lean that direction now. They lean toward something other than kindness. Can we use breath to get more kindness into the world?

Speaker 2: It's important for folks to understand that you are choosing your reality every single moment of your life. There's no one choosing it for you. You have complete command over how you're showing up in the present moment. Fear is an energy and it's become a huge business. It's time is coming to an end. I really believe that we're going to start to move beyond fear, and we're going to live more in a very personal sense of truth without ego. Knowing that the truth, when you experience it inside you, is never complicated. If you speak English, it speaks English.

At whatever level math you know, it gives you math that you can comprehend. And it begins with aligning yourself with yourself, not somebody else's version of you. We don't need any more intelligent people. We need folks with emotional self-awareness. And when you have a relationship with your emotional sense of self, kindness is not even a choice. It comes up because it sees the unity of all of us.

It doesn't separate. So if kindness is something that feels uncomfortable, the first thing we need to do is forgive ourselves because it came from the separated self, the limited self, the ego self. And when we forgive ourselves, something happens in the heart-brain connection, which is different than, I'm sorry, I wasn't kind.

I'm asking forgiveness because I wasn't kind. And immediately there's a different vibration. There's a different frequency that moves through the brain that allows us to give deep understanding, deeper compassion, and have gratitude for the learning-growing process that is going to come to each of us on our own time. But at the end of the day, if you want to wake up from the nightmare of yourself, it's never been easier and faster to do it than today.

Speaker 1: This leads me to, this could take us over when I ask you this question. I've heard you say love has forgotten about no one. Would you speak to that?

Speaker 2: Well, since we're low on time, the only thing you're good at, ladies and gentlemen, the only thing you're good at is love. You suck at hate. You've never been good at it. Your ego continues to bring it to you, and it continually leaves you violated when you energize it.

The only thing you've ever, ever, ever been good at is love, and that it will never change as long as you're in a human body with a human heart and a human brainstem.

Speaker 2: I have nothing else. It's so simple when you express it that way. It's so straightforward. It is really a truth. Our bodies are not wired to hate. Even if you were out, even if you were

Speaker 2: out, out killing to get food, if you were going to get an elk or a deer, you wouldn't hate the animal. You would love that the animal has allowed it to sacrifice its life to feed you and your family for another few days. Hate is an empty, empty, empty road. And there are no winners.

Speaker 2: You know, I've been around the block a few times. I've spent my years in the dungeon, and hate has never served me once in a positive, productive way.

Speaker 2: It's an amazing energy suck. That's my view from other people that I know that can get into that state of frenzy of hate. And it's just like, it's just like if we could convert that into nuclear energy, we could power the world because it is just a stunning energy suck to grind away at somebody in hate. Like, what is that?

Speaker 2: Well, it's a cheap dopamine. There's arousal to it. Yeah. You know, folks love being aroused, but how are you getting aroused? Is that really helping you and your family and humanity? You know, get aroused in healthy ways that serve your house, that serve your community, that serve people around you.

It's just, it's, we've got to just raise the bar a fraction of an inch in how we talk to ourselves and how we talk with others and have the courage just to walk away from something or not watch something that your nervous system doesn't need any more imprints on. You are the CEO of your life.

Speaker 1: That's your next book. I look forward to that. Ed, as always, it's an adventure. That was great. Thank you so much. Where can people find out more about you, your work, and perhaps scheduling some time for you for a one-on-one session?

Speaker 2: I have a website, www.edharoldharold .com. You can go there and there's a whole host of ways that we can work together individually, we can get trainings to you, and you know, we can really enjoy this transition to the best of our ability that we're all going through. Wonderful. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2: Dependence as always. I appreciate you. Thank you. You're in the mood well. Everybody have a great rest of the weekend and we'll see you next week. Bye-bye.