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The Amazing Breathing Feats of Swami Rama(M4A_128K) · Drawn of History

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  Speaker 1: Who are some known figures throughout history that it's documented
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  Speaker 1: that they've practiced breathwork and it was a big part
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  Speaker 1: of their lives? Do you know any?
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  Speaker 2: There's so many. And if you look at ancient literature,
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  Speaker 2: there were all these Swamis, there were all these Buddhist monks,
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  Speaker 2: there were all these Rinpoches that were supposedly doing things
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  Speaker 2: that were impossible according to our understanding of biology and
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  Speaker 2: medicine right now until you bring them into a lab.
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  Speaker 2: And so in the 70s, they started doing this. One
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  Speaker 2: guy was Swami Rama. This guy grew up in the
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  Speaker 2: mountains of the Himalayas, been meditating.
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  Speaker 1: Swami Rama, bring him up. Sorry, I interrupted you.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's cool.
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  Speaker 1: The mountains of the Himalayas go on? Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Since he was four years old, he was trained to
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  Speaker 2: be a monk. And they brought him into this place
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  Speaker 2: called the Manager Clinic. And a Navy physicist tested to
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  Speaker 2: see what he could do, things that are supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be impossible. And he was able to flutter his heart
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  Speaker 2: rate on command at 300 beats per minute on command.
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  Speaker 2: And then- What's our regular heart rate? If you're healthy, 50.
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  Speaker 2: And he did 300? 50 beats per minute. Mine's probably 70, 60, 70.
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  Speaker 2: 300 beats, it's supposed to be impossible. Shit, he's a
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  Speaker 2: damn Valentine's Day at that point. So he was able
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  Speaker 2: to change the temperature on the palm of his hand
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  Speaker 2: 11 degrees from one side to the other. One side
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  Speaker 2: was all flush and red and the other was like
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  Speaker 2: gray and purple. And in another test, and this was
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  Speaker 2: reported in the New York Times, he was able to
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  Speaker 2: enter states of deep sleep while still being conscious and
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  Speaker 2: repeating everything that happened in the room around him. All
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  Speaker 2: of this is supposed to be impossible. He proved it,
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  Speaker 2: and it also establishes credence to all these other stories
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  Speaker 2: of these ancient monks doing this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And he said the foundation of all of this was breathing.
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  Speaker 2: You have to start with that. Then you have to
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  Speaker 2: learn to meditate and then you can do all this
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  Speaker 2: other stuff. But it starts with that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How would you even be able to do something like that?
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  Speaker 2: You focus on your breath, you meditate. And I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you, I've seen people do things that are much
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  Speaker 2: crazier than that.
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: I've seen people do a lot of things that I
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  Speaker 2: don't feel at liberty to discuss because people are going
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  Speaker 2: to think i'm insane until i get these guys into
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  Speaker 2: a lab and that's what i'm working on right now
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  Speaker 2: but that that looks like child's play compared to the
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  Speaker 2: things that i've seen people do when you focus on
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  Speaker 2: your breathing when you use your natural body to do
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  Speaker 2: these things that we've been doing for thousands of years
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  Speaker 2: that in the last couple hundred years we've completely forgotten about.
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  Speaker 1: Wow you gotta come back then you have to come
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  Speaker 1: back after that for sure how do some of your
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  Speaker 1: breathwork ideas compare to a guy like Wim Hof? Because
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  Speaker 1: he's a very popular figure in the breathing space, right?
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  Speaker 1: And he just is such a captivating figure too. And
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he's in the cold and he's battling
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  Speaker 1: something that, you know, we all want to battle something.
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  Speaker 1: So we all feel invigorated by his journey. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: how did some of your practices compare to some of
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  Speaker 1: Wim Hof's practices?
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  Speaker 2: Well, most of what I studied and researched and write
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  Speaker 2: about is this normal breathing. It's so unsexy, right? Just
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  Speaker 2: breathe normal. I want to be a super breather. But
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  Speaker 2: what you realize is the vast majority of people are
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  Speaker 2: breathing dysfunctionally. And so what I'm trying to bring awareness
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  Speaker 2: to and to have people do first before they go
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  Speaker 2: and do crazy breathwork stuff is to learn normal breathing
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  Speaker 2: because you're never going to be able to get a
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  Speaker 2: ton out of breathwork practices unless your foundation is solid.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you want to run a marathon. Would you
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  Speaker 2: just stand up and run a marathon or would you
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  Speaker 2: try to train a little bit? and get a proper foundation,
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  Speaker 2: get the right biomechanics. So that's what most of the
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  Speaker 2: book is about is because so many people are breathing
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  Speaker 2: dysfunctionally that they have all of these underlying issues that
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  Speaker 2: are tied to it and they don't realize it. Why
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  Speaker 2: are they getting migraines all the time? Why is their
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  Speaker 2: blood pressure so high? Why are they getting all these cavities?
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  Speaker 2: Why does their kid have symptoms of ADHD? All of
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  Speaker 2: this stuff is tied to your breathing. So once you
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  Speaker 2: get that solid foundation, you become a nasal breather, you're
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  Speaker 2: able to do what you were doing You're able to
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  Speaker 2: become comfortable enough with your own waist that you can
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  Speaker 2: relax your gut as you take a breath in. And
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  Speaker 2: as you exhale, it comes back, right? You can breathe
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  Speaker 2: these slow, low, deep breaths. You are not mouth breathing
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  Speaker 2: at night. You are not snoring. After all those boxes
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  Speaker 2: are checked, then let's bring it on. Let's go up
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  Speaker 2: that next rung of potential. This is what yoga was
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  Speaker 2: designed to do. It was never intended for sick people.
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  Speaker 2: It was intended for people that were normal, that were healthy,
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  Speaker 2: to bump you up that next rung of the ladder.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's what Wim does, right? Wim's an amazing dude.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine a better spokesperson for Breathwork. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if there was ever a cult leader, he should start as,
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  Speaker 2: it kind of is a cult almost.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's definitely something about him that's super exciting.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's done more to bring Breathwork to more
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  Speaker 2: people on the planet than anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: He brought awareness.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you need that advertising. And you need someone that
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  Speaker 2: is that inspired and genuine, not someone that's trying to
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  Speaker 2: always sell you stuff. Wim wants to help people. Wim
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  Speaker 2: wants to see what the limits of the human body are. Wim,
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  Speaker 2: when you meet him, he's real. And so many other
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  Speaker 2: people in Breathwork have hopped on the train to try to...
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  Speaker 2: You haven't met him. No. Okay. No, the guy is magnetic.
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  Speaker 2: Is he really? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's cool. I mean, you can feel it through
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  Speaker 1: the screen. You know, you feel it when you watch him.
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  Speaker 1: And you need an advertising piece for things like that. Like,
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  Speaker 1: you need something like a shiny figure that's out there
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  Speaker 1: so that people can also then come and absorb your information.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at this, dude. Because, dude, you know
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  Speaker 1: how many thick white dudes are just hiding in their
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  Speaker 1: freezers in the garage right now all because of Wim Hof,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and forgetting to close the lid and the
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  Speaker 1: meat's going bad?
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  Speaker 2: But people were not doing this until... So we knew
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  Speaker 2: all about these benefits, but the people training you how
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  Speaker 2: to breathe properly was a respiratory therapist in a hospital.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of dudes don't gravitate towards that. Wim
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  Speaker 2: is hiking up Everest barefoot with his shirt off and
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  Speaker 2: hanging out in ice for an hour at a time.
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  Speaker 2: People are like, that guy's cool. I wanna be like him. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's exciting. And he's also... The other side of this
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  Speaker 2: is not only Is he able to bring people from
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  Speaker 2: a state where they're normal to become better than normal?
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  Speaker 2: Is some research is going on right now about people
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  Speaker 2: with autoimmune diseases with that ice combined with breath work
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  Speaker 2: can help lower all of those stress hormones and help
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  Speaker 2: people who are caught in these vicious cycles of chronic inflammation.
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  Speaker 2: And some people with multiple sclerosis, people with eczema and more.
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  Speaker 2: And this is something that's free. You got to buy
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  Speaker 2: a freezer, right? Put some ice in it. But beyond that,
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  Speaker 2: it's a pretty low amount of cash you need to
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  Speaker 2: spend up front in order to do these things. If
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  Speaker 2: you can't afford an ice bath, take a cold shower, right?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the same benefits.