Name: Rickson Gracie on The Importance of Learning to Breathe
Uploaded: 2021-08-10T17:56:30.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rickson Gracie on The Importance of Learning to Breathe' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-10. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience
The big change in my life was when I learned how to breathe.
I started to bring in more spiritual possibilities,
more mental possibilities.
Because what is interesting about the breathing aspect is
the brain and the heart are the only organs
who can give and receive information.
The other organs, liver, kidney, they cannot do that.
But when you get upset with something mentally,
you bring information to yourself immediately.
Your brain is responding.
Your heart too, when you get depressed,
immediately you feel in your heart.
And your heart shows you, you said, show you,
it's immediately connection.
And what is amazing about that is the lung
is the practical aspect within you
who are able to control or help your brain
and also help your heart.
So, through the proper breathing, you can control your heartbeats.
Through the proper breathing, you can control your mindset
and get calmer, control your panic, control your courage,
control everything you need in the mental aspect
and also spiritual, hope, faith, visualizations.
So, all the elements in your brain, all the elements in your heart
can be much better guided, much better helped through the lungs.
If you don't know how to involve your lungs in your brain, in your breathing,
you're not able to favor your brain and your heart the way it's supposed to be.
It's kind of amazing that everybody breathes, but a relatively small percentage
of people know how to breathe correctly.
Yes.
You're born, you get slapped on your butt.
And you think you live and well and you breathe for life.
It's not like that.
The first learning you learn about breathing is to move the upper body, the
upper part of your lung.
If you don't learn, if you don't practice, you're never going to use the
diaphragmatic breathing,
which involves the full capacity of your lungs.
So, the diaphragm, when you learn how to move your diaphragm efficiently,
you fill up your lungs in a different way.
So, if I breathe right, or wrong,
either more or less oxygen, up to me the way I use the diaphragm or not.
So, when I learn how to use that, I'm able to help my body in whatever needs,
mental, spiritual, or physical.
When you, that famous scene in Choke, when you're moving your stomach around,
or the drums beating, it's really crazy.
I love people, people love that scene.
Yeah.
Because you're using that control of your diaphragm.
How did you learn how to do that?
The Orlando Cani.
He taught you how to do that?
He taught me, yes.
And how long did it take before you could move your stomach like that?
It's not as difficult.
I know Crohn can do that too, right?
Yeah.
It's not as difficult.
You can learn this in no time.
You just need the right instruction because it's all about, it's a quick
learning.
You know, it's just, you have to put some attention.
Because when you learn how to breathe, you start adding oxygen to your life.
You can stay five, seven days without food, five days without water,
but five minutes without the air, you're dead.
You're dead.
So when you know how to hyperventilate, it's like double your life, triple your
lifetime
because you not get tired as you want.
When you say hyperventilate, what do you mean by hyperventilate?
I'm here calm.
Right.
If I do this, I breathe.
If I want to go dive, I need to hyperventilate.
So I need to, because I increase the circulation of oxygen in my body and I
increase the blood,
the oxygen on the cells.
So I do hyperventilation for a little while and I triple the amount of time I'm
going to be under the water.
Hmm.
Another important thing for people to learn about breathing is the idea of
inhale.
The inhale is not the cause, it's the solution.
So what I, what if I need a full lung, a full breath, I don't want to just do .
If I want a full breath, I first need to .
Now, I have a full breath.
Because if I just start from here, I already have 30% of air inside, which is
not empty enough.
So in order for me to put it all in, 100% of good air inside, my liveness, my
attention has to be on the exhale.
Now I'm ready to get the air.
The effort, the strength on the muscle.
If I need to be, get a big biceps, I need to curl.
If I need to have a strong breathing system, I need to exhale.
The inhale is natural.
Some people, they feel tired, I need air.
They go against the, and against the flow.
Because they try to bring in, which is already claustrophobic.
The more I need air, the more I...
Oh my God.
So my liveness, my focus is to take the bad gas out of me.
The good gas comes naturally.
Some people say, I need air.
They need air, but they're already full of bad gas.
So that makes a big confusion on the right way, should the gas come in or out.
So my organization and my brain is to put the bad gas out of me.
So when I train consistently, I...
If I'm not effective on the exhale, I'm not going to be effective on the inhale.
And the liveness of my muscle system is the contraction.
The contraction is the diaphragmatic breathing.
This is a contraction.
When I do a curl for getting strong biceps, that's the contraction.
When I do this, I relax, contract.
So contract, relax.
So that's giving me a different edge to understand clearly everything around me.
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