The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett - Moment 60 - Jay Shetty: You’re Breathing Wrong, Here’s Why

Starting point is 00:00:00 Quick one, just wanted to say a big thank you to three people very quickly. First people I want to say thank you to is all of you that listen to the show. Never in my wildest dreams is all I can say. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd start a podcast in my kitchen and that it would expand all over the world as it has done. And we've now opened our first studio in America, thanks to my very helpful team led by Jack on the production side of things. So thank you to Jack and the team for building out the new American studio.

Starting point is 00:00:24 And thirdly to Amazon Music who, when they heard that we were expanding to the United States, and I'd be recording a lot more over in the States, they put a massive billboard in Times Square for the show. So thank you so much, Amazon Music. Thank you to our team. And thank you to all of you that listened to this show. Let's continue. So if I was to be someone who's listening to this now driving in my van on my way to work this morning and i see a lot of people in their vans driving listening to the podcast um what would you say is a really good just a first step to to investigate for themselves subjectively if um meditation can can add value to their life where would they start yeah i would say that the first

Starting point is 00:01:03 thing you want to do is put something in your schedule, in your calendar, which is time for you. If you look at your schedule, you would never cancel an important meeting with someone else, but we don't even schedule one with ourself. There is nothing in the calendar that's time with myself, time for me, time for you, time for just this, this whole thing that's going on right now. Literally put it in for five minutes a day. If you can't do five minutes, do it for two minutes a day. Just put it in there because if you start putting that in there, you might then tomorrow go, okay, well, what am I going to do with this time? I've got five minutes. Wow. Okay. What am I going to do with it? So start putting it in there. That's the first step. The second step I would say is definitely focus on

Starting point is 00:01:42 your breath. I think the breath is just something we can all relate to. It's tangible. By the way, athletes have to learn how to control their breath. Musicians have to learn how to control their breath. Whether you're Adele or whether you're a football player, you have to learn how to breathe in order to perform. Me, you and everyone, we're all athletes in different ways. We all use our bodies.

Starting point is 00:02:03 We all use our minds, whether you're a business person or whether you're an actual athlete playing on a court or a pitch. But are you saying that I don't know how to breathe? I am saying you don't know how to breathe. Yeah. And not you specifically. I'm saying that most people don't know how to breathe. And I didn't know how to breathe until I was taught how to breathe. And I know that sounds ridiculous, but how many times a day do you get out of breath? I know there's times a day that I get out of breath. How many times a day do you get out of breath? I know there's times a day that I get out of breath. How many times a day do you feel that when you're experiencing an emotion,

Starting point is 00:02:29 your breath changes? Like when you're crying or you're sad or you're upset, your breath changes. When you're happy and elated, your breath changes. So our breath is connected to every single emotion. So if we want to navigate our emotions and our life, we have to train our breath. So I would just say to everyone, take out two to three minutes and just take a moment to breathe in and out and breathe in for four and out for four. Just try it as simply as that. Now,

Starting point is 00:02:56 if you're someone who struggles to get to sleep, which can often be something that I think everyone struggles with, that's when you want to breathe out for longer than you breathe in. So if you're breathing in for four, breathe out for more than four to relax and rest your body. And if you're one of these people that goes, Jay, I've got, you know, I've got, like you said, I've got to do a delivery today. I've got to run to this meeting. I've got to get to this. And you need more energy. Breathe out for less time than you breathe in. So you may breathe in for a second and breathe out for a millisecond. It's a really sharp breath out. And and if you do that you'll feel this pumping energy in your body and so to me it's these are really practical tools that i think we all need to sleep so everyone knows their meditation for sleep we

Starting point is 00:03:33 all need to get energized so that's a simple meditation for energized and we all need to just feel like we're not rushing yeah so i think those are hopefully quick things that feel practical to anyone and everyone yeah i mean i'm i think my natural position on things is to be a little bit of a skeptic. And I, when I was in Indonesia the last time I, my girlfriend brought me to see a breathwork coach. And before we did the breathwork, he explained it to me. And so this is, this is as a logical guy, like I am, the explanation matters a lot. And he was talking to me about how we pretty much live most of our lives these days because of the overstimulation because of the stress because of the screens

Starting point is 00:04:09 in this kind of like permanent state of fight or flight and when you look at what happens in fight or flight and i studied biology i know what happens to the body um anatomically and physically your what happens to your digestive tract and i mean this is what a lot of people say when they say i'm nervous and they've lost their appetite that's your body preparing and keeping the minerals and nutrients it needs to expend energy to help you in a situation on the serengeti when a line is running at you that's a very prehistoric innate part of our conditioning and we do live on edge our notifications run our lives and all of these things so when we think about why people might be getting a little bit more anxious day to day it's probably because we're living in like a heightened

Starting point is 00:04:49 state of fight or flight and one of the things that happens in fight or flight as well is your breathing changes so yeah and then I think about the moments where I'm feeling a little bit stressed and one thing I've done I might find it so funny my head went straight to New York City as I'll go I'll stop and i'll just go and whenever i do that someone turns to me and goes are you okay yeah okay i'm fine i'm just look at him now yeah yeah but no i completely agree and um i think it's one of those things that i think everybody listening regardless of who you are or how much of a tough guy you are you should um definitely you're a tough guy steven so you know well not really, no. I'm a bit soft,

Starting point is 00:05:25 you know, around the edges.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett - Moment 60 - Jay Shetty: You’re Breathing Wrong, Here’s Why

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