Frank Herbert's Dune, Bene Gesserit Training, The Calming Breath

Another practice inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune, this is the "calming breath", a method to reset your mind and nervous system. I use this whenever I'm facing a situation that invokes stress for me, and with practice it can bring you back to calm almost instantly.

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[unitedtaps]

Very cool idea. The constraint idea is very clever. I may try this. Thank you for bring your light into the world.

[traceuse]

It's amazing how we can shape and train our minds and bodies to change in the direction we want as long as we stick with it. I love the principle of gradually building skills by stretching the boundaries of where we already are just a little bit, and over time the changes can be incredible!
Unrelated but I have a video request for you if you're looking for ideas. Lately I have been struggling with the loneliness of my rewilding journey. It feels like the changes I have been making are so good for my health and wellbeing (cutting sugar, going to bed earlier, cutting media consumption, seeking out silence, paying attention to nature). I want to continue in this trajectory but these things are so outside of the mainstream these days and it feels difficult having to explain why I don't want to go out clubbing, why I don't want to go to the movies or that party, why I find silence to be so wonderful, and why I think spiders are a really cool animal that we needn't be so afraid of.
Anyway, how do you deal with the fear of being "weird" and reconcile that with your need for a tribe? How do you have the confidence to be that "boring" person who goes to bed early and gets up early? How do you own who you are when you feel like you are treading this path alone in the midst of all your friends?
Thank you.
Edit: by the way, I just remembered your Transforming Peer Pressure video and watched it again. It helped a lot. So maybe this video request wasn't really necessary. But if you have any more wisdom on this subject, I would still love to hear it!

[doublegdog]

Love the good vibes in all of your videos! I have to give a presentation in front of 200 people at my job today and this will hopefully help me.

[danielhill]

Wonderful practice! This works for me as long as I don't go to "boiling" but one I use when I feel myself becoming agitated or angry is triangle breath. Very similar to box breathing but inhale for 4 sec, exhale for 4 sec and then hold for 4 sec. When I know certain things (like heavy traffic) can potentially be irritating and set me off I'll start the breathwork to get me into the calm meditative state. Can't wait to see the yurt again! Love to you and your family my friend 💚💚

[MrHullRockers]

I get that feeling when I'm fishing. When I focus on my float and nothing else I literally feel like a weight is lifted off my shoulders I can feel the stress drain away. These days, I don't go fishing as much as I ought to.

[FelipeKana]

As quick meditation, on some moments of my life I used mantras. Sometimes mantras focused on birds and trees. And another though "experiment" that can help me calm my mind is to, being in front of any tree on the street, visualize it as a full being, imaging its roots and feeling its "perception" over me somehow, reminding me that we're not alone when we're around a tree (or any plant really). This often calms me a lot

[Myles_C_]

This is similar to how I view wim hoff breathing. Trying to relax your system in times of stress. It seems he uses cold to stress the body and has trained himself to remain calm. Anyone who has jumped into cold water knows how it takes your breath from you and can knock all thought from your head. However if you can remain calm during this time of stress you are able to deal with the situation in a better way. Stresses can be physical or emotional, but if you can train yourself to remain calm under one type of stress it can be used to cross over to deal with other types of stresses.

[EconaelGaming]

Try to combine this with a mantra. I find that makes it even easier to get into the parasympathicus.
I believe the actual words are not important, as long as you infuse them with your personal meaning, it would probably even work with made up gibberish words.
My personal example is the heart sutra (parasamgate), which I defined for myself as letting go of anxiety, without bothering about what other people think the words mean.

[McLarenIT]

Kenton, I have been experimenting with one-breath meditation for a while now. My 'cue' happens when I feel an urge to smile, then I get into a state of comfort and relaxation. Another thing I've been doing for a quick relaxation that strangely works is imagining my body releasing some relaxation chemicals. Both techniques work best with mild to moderate stress. I am yet to try this when in high stress because, well, my mind has the tendency to forget about these techniques under intense stress. On a different subject, have you ever experimented with sleep meditation? I'm talking about a type of mindfulness meditation that is done right before falling asleep when you try to be mindful of the process of falling asleep. Just curious.

[jeffbarnesyout]

Ummm. How is this related to Dune and the chant against fear?