Matt and Chris discuss the importance of healthy breathing for addiction recovery and mental/emotional/physical health optimization… and they do this by listing off several different breathing benefits, exercises, as well yoga, qigong, deep tissue massage, and other natural therapies that combat acute and chronic stress.
Here are the main topics discussed in this episode:
- Matt’s epic day working in the morning and then doing an outdoor workout at the park, followed by a cold shower, post-workout shake, and then a hit off a low-temperature cannabis oil vaporizer with 1:1 ratio CBD:THC medicine
- Why Chris is doing a Paleo Reset Diet and how he’s doing it
- Dram Apothecary CBD Drink with natural flavors and no sugar
- Why Matt has been drinking a specific brand of spring water that he buys from Sprouts grocery store
- The “Box Breathing” exercise created by ex-Navy Seal Mark Divine; how to do it, benefits, and more
- Different breathing exercises that Chris has used and recommends
- Benefits of correct breathing and specific exercises for preventing or treating stress, anxiety, worry, and overwhelm
- Chronic stress, over SNS activation, and activating your PSNS to engage your body’s natural rest and repair mode for rejuvenation
- Matt’s natural high experience doing the 45-minute “Breath Empowerment” at the Qi Revolution seminar
- The Breath Empowerment audio to do from home
- Supreme Science Qigong products and services
- The “9th Breath Method” audio to do from home
- Raising standards for permanent positive change
- Choosing Pro-Recovery adaptive actions and habits more than maladaptive actions and habits
- Slowly accumulating a consistent raising of your standards over the long-term
- Taking please in gathering and assessing new knowledge
- Benefits of reading books more and watching TV and Netflix less
- Why it’s important to wind down at night so you get more and better sleep
- How the COVID lockdown disrupted positive habits and replaced them with more TV and social media/internet habits in a certain percentage of people
- Benefits of taking a 24-hour digital detox and how to work up to it
- Using technology instead of letting it use you
- How people are more overwhelmed than ever before due to an overabundance of choices
- How social media and smartphones were designed to be as addictive as possible
- The book on Audible.com called Essentialism that Matt is listening to and loving
- Progressive muscle relaxation benefits and how to do it from home
- Benefits of deep tissue massage and Rolfing (aka Structural Integration) as forms of bodywork for addiction recovery and stress
- Improving your routines over time
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Box Breathing created by ex-Navy Seal Mark Divine
- Dram Apothecary CBD drink
- Breath Empowerment audio
- 9-Breath Method audio
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- Ultimate Opiate Recovery Coaching
- Ultimate Opiate Detox 4.0
- Total Alcohol Recovery 2.0
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I have tried to detox myself and have gone all the way to signing up for Matt’s counseling and plan. Obviously I was not knowledgeable enough. I went to an 8 day detox and was sent home. Several days later PAWS kicked my butt and the “doctors “put me back on Tramadol. Now several years later I’m trying again. I just happened upon this podcast and I’m encouraged again.
So glad that you’re encouraged again, Roger. PAWS is hard for sure.