"You have to rewire your own innate intelligence. You have to reprogram the operating system of the unconscious mind, which deals with the immune system... With breath itself, you can switch off the underlying fear response."
Niraj Naik
May 13, 2021
EFR 475: Take Control of Your Breath, Take Control of Your Life with Niraj Naik
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EFR 475: Take Control of Your Breath, Take Control of Your Life with Niraj Naik
Niraj Naik is a certified pharmacist turned holistic health and breathwork expert, professional musician, serial entrepreneur, and one of the world’s most sought-after spiritual ceremony facilitators.
He is the CEO of SOMA Breath, which offers a series of workshops featuring a complete holistic system of Pranayama Breathing techniques with training centers in Europe, the USA, and Asia.
Known as “The Renegade Pharmacist”, Niraj educates people about the alternatives to pharmaceutical drugs that are available like breathwork, brainwave entrainment, Ayurveda, and natural supplements and medicines.
Niraj shares how he got into breathwork “by accident” after being diagnosed with a chronic illness in 2010 called ulcerative colitis that left him unable to leave his own home for almost a year. Determined to heal, he discovered Pranayama (breath) and the simple, basic breathing techniques that led to instant physiological changes in his own body.
Listen in as Niraj explains how breathwork can “repattern the consciousness of the cells in your body” to distinguish stress and create a “thrive environment” within, bringing that reptilian part of your brain under your control.
Key Highlights
Breathwork is much more than meets the eye. Niraj explains why he has dedicated his life to it and the power that breathwork holds for all of us.
What exactly is going on when we shift from unconscious to conscious inhalation and exhalation? Niraj shows us the seemingly impossible by increasing his heart rate using breathwork alone.
How does alternating your breathing through each nostril create harmony in your nervous system?
Powerful Quotes by Niraj Naik
Something like an autoimmune condition is the result of your own immune cells attacking your healthy cells. You have to rewire your own innate intelligence. You have to reprogram the operating system of the unconscious mind, which deals with the immune system. There are different ways of doing that—through meditation and through breathing techniques to get into altered states. With breath itself, you can switch off the underlying fear response.
When you get back into balance and you change your mindset, you actually promote the growth of good bacteria and that improves your immune system and everything else.
Life is like a competition between two parts of the brain: the reptilian side and the conscious side.
If you don’t take conscious control over your breath, the reptilian wins and you’re going to breathe in a more stressed-out way or a more erratic way depending on your level of stress. Unless we find a way to consciously control that, you’re always going to be subjected to overbreathing, hyperventilation, and erratic breathing.
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