Thread by @ErwanLeCorre

I'm progressively getting back to the 6 minutes no warmup (and no hyperventilation) breath holds I used to do in the late morning on a fasted state.
Currently at "only" 5 minutes 10 seconds. I could do 6.
But willpower is only one element of the game.

FORCING the nervous system with pure will is not the best route, the same way TRICKING the nervous system by using hyperventilation is not the best route.

An essential aspect of this no warmup, no hyperventilation approach is physiological and neurological readiness.
Such neurophysiological readiness is neither obtained by brutalizing nor tricking your own neurophysiology.

Understand the importance of this.

Progressiveness is key. It's a cooperative process of mutual understanding and adjustment between your inner neurological and physiological processes, for they're all tightly intertwined.

Another essential element of this practice is timelessness, the ability to remain mentally and emotionally composed in the absence of indication of time, while under SIGNIFICANT physiological stress.
Remember that a few minutes without breathing can kill you?

Who does it play out in your mind?
That's a good question. Here's a BETTER question:
How do you choose to make it play out in your mind?

This time around I've set time notification to be 30 seconds before the end of the breath-hold instead of a whole minute. A 5 minutes 10 seconds breath hold like this implies 4 minutes 40 seconds spent timelessly.

What happens in one's mind in a state of stillness for that amount of time?
Depends on a CRUCIAL difference:

Are you breathing, or are you not?

If you want to learn this and much more with me, I'm teaching it.

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