 One of the things that I wanted to bring out around to this is breathing, you know If you look at what your body takes in for nutrients you take in liquids solids and gases and You know if you're eating food getting a little snack while you're out there. You can go without that for quite a significant period of time Months under adverse conditions you can survive quite a bit your body elite itself. I got more than a few months. I think You can go without liquids depending on the conditions up to a couple of days But without air you've got minutes to brain death and that's about it So when you're looking at prioritization of what your body needs to do it needs to bring in air Where float tanks coming to this is it takes gravity out of the equation and I think you already know that so I'm not really I'm just kind of preaching the choir on that a Little further closer closer better now Okay The whole thing with breathing What a lot of us don't realize is why people tell you to lift something on the exhale or on the held breath But not on the in breath and that's because your muscles are busy doing something else There are a lot of laws of physiology and sometimes they hold up and sometimes they don't But it's a real easy practical demonstration anytime you want you can even grab a hold of the chair in front of you Squeeze it and try to try to take a deep breath and because you've already prioritized one thing It's a little harder to breathe and your body's busy contracting protect it protect itself from injuries and all these things aches and pains of the day And how much of your body has to breathe it isn't just the lungs the lungs You know even myself I teach this stuff and I run into the misconception sometimes to get this internal image That my lung is this air sac like this air balloon. Do you ever get that image yourself? You know, it's like you breathe in this big air sac fills up You breathe out this and these things are actually pretty solid. They're they're a very liquidy sponge they're they're pretty thickened and It takes actually muscular effort to really draw and create vacuum to pull that air in and When you do that you've got to push everything in your body down a bit to create room Your body needs to expand to three-dimensionally it needs to lengthen broaden and deepen in order to get the fullest breath and For something is as vital as air. I mean minutes till brain death Every single in your muscle in your body starts working with this when you lengthen your body your pelvis actually has to Stabilize so that when you push everything that's below the diaphragm, which is most of your internal organs down to create that vacuum It's got to have somewhere to go And so this bowl that's your pelvis you have to adjust tension in your inner leg your outer leg all the way down to your feet Just going through your day That's part of what tires us out Hanging on to old injuries clenching breathing Moving through patterns of dysfunction and one of the nice things about floating is is it takes gravity out of that equation that same way that You pushing down on a chair makes it harder to breathe in your aches and pains of the day. It makes it harder to breathe in That pain in your hip from sitting on these chairs a little too long listening to people a little too long And how many times did you shift one side than the other the other right? You know one leg over and and what your body's doing is protecting itself from injuries We'll stay crunched up like that and take a really deep breath doesn't go so well does it? Add to that. It's got to go up to I mean if we don't got any lift Not just down but up it's not going to breathe so well So in order to take a deep breath in Your collarbone actually has to lift with this big diagonal muscle Your upper rib cage and your rib cage goes this high up. It's kind of creepy to think about isn't it? You know first ribs way up here, but breathing in deeply up and out and forward Practically every muscle in your body contracts at some level to do that Ever been really exhausted and stood up. That's so easy to do a little bit tired Gravity's influence on your body over time adds to that So making that lifting or pushing down or any of those readjustments just harder to do So one of the things that's really amazing about float tank is that buoyancy neutral right You get into that float tank and it's as close to floating in space as you're going to get If your body needs to expand or contract and I'm just talking about the respiratory rhythms I think the people following me going to talk about more interesting rhythms than that but Talking about a vital rhythm of your life Just made that much easier. I Think that a big part of what people come to a conference like this is to get things that you can tell People that might not know what it is that you do and how it helps and how it's going to directly help their life And if you tell somebody it's going to help them breathe This makes it easier on your muscles. I think that's pretty straightforward. I think most of us kind of stand that And if you want a little bit more follow-up for something like this, you should look at the effects of sleep apnea On weight gain if you can't breathe You can't repair Your body on a cellular level needs to exchange gases In with the good out with the bad all that needs stuff, right? If it can't do that you can't do that you just don't get better as if that isn't bad enough if You can't breathe remember you can take in solids liquids and gases, right? If you can't take in air What do you think that's doing to your stress rates? I think that's doing your blood pressure What do you think that's doing to adrenal response and release a cortisol? Real simple answer. It's making a lot worse so Long story short one of the easiest things to remember about a lot of this stuff is Just give somebody a weight Have them hold it up And ask them if it's easier or harder to breathe try it yourself. Seriously push on something Push on something yet doesn't matter chair back anything push hard Take a really deep breath while you're pushing And now take a deep breath. I'm sorry. Now take a deep breath without doing that Is it different? As easy as that was to demonstrate. It's as easy to demonstrate to anyone And if you want to know how it stresses you out, I mean, what do we do when we get stressed out? We forget we hold our breath and then everything's going well Didn't want to do that another microphone, right? So imagine if you didn't have to fight for that breath then you already know that You already been in a float tank But just telling somebody they don't have to fight for a breath. It's just gonna be easier They get to rest there and then wow Your brain's free to do so much more If you're not fighting for every breath that you take if you're really rested and relaxed You finally get to exhale You're repairing better You've got hydrostatic pressure. You got buoyancy. You got better pressure on the outside of your body With more pressure on the outside of your body, even though there's pressure there. It's it's easier to breathe I know that's kind of odd that hydrostatic pressure. What do you suppose that's doing to your circulation in your skin? It's actually reducing it. Wouldn't you think it's like a sleeve Why is that important do you think well it'll take down inflammation by Reducing peripheral peripheral Wow It is that time of the afternoon, isn't it? The peripheral vascular compression Compression on the outside of your body. You're just processing more volume through the inside of your body if you're sitting in a sleeve The blood supply is getting pushed on Like a hand pushing on you just like most massages and Pushing a lot of blood through the deeper parts of you which includes liver and kidneys So what starts happening is you get better internal respiration not only external respiration If your body's already pushing the fluids to the deeper surfaces and you're processing it better through your liver and your kidneys You're detoxifying better You're running more volume through there because there's less room in the skin. I don't really have much more to say than that