Brian (0s):
This week I interviewed Tim Thomas. Tim is a former special forces soldier who helps everyday people get their energy back by fixing one of the most overlooked problems out there, and that's poor sleep. We discussed how breathwork can save lives along with Turning sleep into your secret weapon, His best advice for men, navigating mental health, How to access the off switch in your mind in just three breaths and much, much more. Really enjoyed my interview with Tim. I know you will too. Thanks so much for listening and enjoy the show. All right. Welcome to the Get Lean, Eat Clean podcast. My name is Brian Gryn and I have Tim Thomas on Welcome to the show.
Tim (37s):
Great to be here, Brian.
Brian (39s):
Great to have you on all the way from Australia.
Tim (44s):
Yep. It's, it's the, it's getting close to the shortest day of the year here. And you'd be in your longest day right now.
Brian (50s):
Yeah. Loving these long days. 'cause the short ones, I mean, it gets dark so early, you know, up in Chicago, what time is it gonna get dark for you?
Tim (1m 2s):
Well, it, it gets dark around 5:00 PM Yeah, so the sun's getting up at, it's actually, I'm very aware of when the sun comes up, 6:36 AM and I knew I was gonna be on with you at seven. So I time my morning run so I could be on top of a hill and as that sun camp comes up, I'd be, you know, doing some breath work And, you know, having that first bit of light come through my eye sockets. Yeah. Because in wintertime, things are, things are kind of hard because when there's more nighttime than daytime, you've got more melatonin in your system. You're sort of in this hibernated state. So if you can, if you can do anything through the wintertime, when the summertime comes, you've, you've got a whole lot more momentum.
Brian (1m 43s):
And have you lived in Australia your whole life, or were you originally
Tim (1m 48s):
From Yeah, I mean, I, I was, I was in the, the forces for a bit, so I was overseas here and there for, you know, but, but not primarily. Yeah. My, my home's always been in Australia. Yeah.
Brian (1m 58s):
And just so people know, you've been focusing on like breath work and meditation. Meditation. I like, you know, you have, you have an app and
Tim (2m 8s):
Yeah, yeah. Yes, true. But for me, meditation is thoughts, controlling thoughts. Breath work is a, is a chemical override. And, you know, I've had a train wreck going on in my head and people say, oh, meditate, meditate. I'm like, this just, that's just not an option right now. So, so breath work for me was the, was the, the first taste of what peace and power felt like. And I was really surprised how immediate it was and also how natural it was because I, I was one of those guys who told a doctor, Hey, I can't sleep. And they go, here you go. Here's a pharmacy. And I was a What's the, do you have a, a, a rating for your podcast?
Tim (2m 53s):
Is there a a language thing I just have to be aware of? I should have asked this beforehand. Well,
Brian (2m 58s):
Oh, oh no, you're good. You can,
Tim (3m 0s):
Okay. Well, the, the, the technical term US veterans use is a, a drug fuck zombie for six years. And I can't get that time back, right? No one, no one told me that breath work could alkalize man neural pathways and get me to sleep. Give me the piece I was looking for, you know, no one told me that breath work could, could be anti-inflammatory and, and heal and bring pain relief to a lot of my chronic injuries. And, and when I experienced this, I started seeing, yeah. And my way in was through the, through the veteran space. I just started seeing so many other people in that place and introducing simple techniques that you could do for yourself through, through breath.
Tim (3m 47s):
It just kept working. And I'm, I'm, I'm not an academic, although I work with academics. I'm dyslexic, so I see things in patterns and I'm like, well, if this is working, let's just keep doing it. Let's just keep doing it. And we, we had this life, I had a lifetime goal, and I didn't care if I worked my whole life to achieve this. Brian. And I wanted to save 40 veteran lives from suicide, you know, because that's how many Australian soldiers we've lost in Afghanistan, but we've lost 30, 40 times that amount of suicide. And I thought, well, if I can achieve that, I'll die happy. But applying, you know, what, what I just spoke to, we, we achieve that within a year.
Tim (4m 28s):
And I thought, well, if this is working in the veteran space, surely it'll work elsewhere. So, so how do we make it available for people anywhere on the planet to access this stuff? And so I, as much as I don't like technology, phones or apps, I created an app and now it's ready for, for anyone who wants to create a lifestyle around, you know, peace and power.
Brian (4m 51s):
Wow. And when it comes to breath work, I mean, like we were talking a little bit off air, it's something that's free and could be easy for people to use, but you know, that's why you don't hear about it. I sort of, I, I just, I'll, I remember thinking, I used to do some fasting here and there, and I was like, well, no one talks about it because it's free and, And you know, you're not buying anything. And I sort of equate breath work a little bit to, to that as well.
Tim (5m 19s):
Well, Brian, what most people don't realize, well, I didn't, I'll own this. Is this a video or audio I should ask? Both. Both. Both. Okay. Well, can you see the morning sunlight coming in? Yeah. What I didn't realize until, until I had a chronic injury is that the world we're in currently, Brian isn't an age of information. Everyone thinks, oh, it's the internet, it's the age of information. I'm like, no, it's an age of marketing. You know? And when I'm, when I'm really hurting, I'm looking for solutions. The first six pages of Google are marketers, you know, and marketers are, I'll give them this, they're really good at, at speaking the words inside your heart.
Tim (5m 60s):
Like, oh my gosh, that's exactly what I wanted. Shut up and take my money. Here's a testimonial from someone who's exactly in your situation, and this is what this pill did for them. And, And, you know, ultimately the goal of a, a marketer is to get a resale. So they'll promise power. Yes. That's what I want. They'll give you a very diluted version of it, and then the years will go on, money will leave, your pocket, time will be lost. And then you, when you're hurting, you're in a very vulnerable position and you end up blaming yourself. And then you're like, fuck that. I'm never trying that again. I tried getting help, help didn't help. So I'm never doing it again. And, and, and that if I didn't get my ass kicked so hard.
Tim (6m 41s):
Yeah. And I, and to be honest, I nearly neck myself and I've got a family. But when you're, when you're hurting that much, you end up, you end up understanding the ultimate goal of pain. And it's not to hurt you. It'll, it's to cause isolation, loneliness. I'm the only person going through this. You know, you've got these unspoken words that you want to say, but you can't say. And they end up like rocks around your heart and, and you just can't feel anymore. And I used to drink so much alcohol just to feel something. Right. But what we discovered is that if somebody who's experienced what you've experienced speaks into your situation, then all of a sudden it makes those rocks around their heart dissolve.
Tim (7m 32s):
And, and you start hearing people say, like in the veteran space, you'd see guys' jaws pop open, right? Which is interesting. The jaws would pop open and they'd say words like, fuck, I thought I was the only one. You know? And that moment is the very moment healing begins. Mm. And this is what a lot of people don't understand, 'cause it's not on the spreadsheet, it's not seen. You can pour millions of dollars into, you know, mental health, but if you're not breaking isolation, it's kinda like water off a duck's back. And it's so heartbreaking to see these people trying to help, but they don't see that it's, it's just, it's completely missing the mark if you're not breaking the isolation. And then, and then consequently getting them outta fatigue.
Tim (8m 15s):
Because if, if, if you feeling like you are the only one going through it, and it's just me in this world, I can't drop my guard. You know? And, and that's so goddamn exhausting. So, so you know that that goal of 40 veteran lives in, in a year was achieved. 'cause we, we just simply saw that if we broke isolation, we got them outta fatigue. It's like this magic compass turned on inside of them. And it was so beautiful to see that they, they only needed like 2% of what people thought they needed. And they, they just sort of generated themselves once they had those two things. Yeah.
Brian (8m 52s):
And the 40 veterans, was this something that, like, did they reach out to you? Or how did that happen? Yeah,
Tim (8m 58s):
Yeah. So, so once or twice a week a guy would come up to me and say, do you remember that conversation? Do you remember that, you know, program you run? And I'm like, nah. Yeah, yeah, okay. He says, well, I had everything in the car ready to kill myself, but that had me hanging on for another week. And, and it, I wasn't aware of this, but us humans were kind of built for connection. You know, Brian, if you knew I had your back 100 fricking percent, and I knew you had my back 100 freaking percent, you know, that, that everything else becomes a very small detail. We are made for this connection. Trust is the most powerful thing us humans have.
Tim (9m 40s):
We don't need more stuff, we need more trust. Right. And, and once you understand that you, you, you, you start seeing that the problem's not the problem. You know, everyone's chasing after the symptoms, trying to medicate the symptoms, but you're not addressing the heart of it. And once you get that, once you get to the center of the universe, stuff be, get big impacts can, can happen very quickly with a, with a small amount of resource because you're actually reconnecting people, you know, and, and that, and, and that's on, on the back of the, and so the programs that I used to run the, their effectiveness was measured on how much it improved the quality of the person's sleep.
Tim (10m 28s):
It's a very simple metric, but it's very measurable. And it tells us that, you know, if someone's sleeping, that means they can relax and go into their rested state. But if I'm all alone, I'm all isolated. I can't drop my guard for a second because if I do something bad's gonna happen. It's gonna be my fault. So I I hopefully I'm not painting too much of a, a wider picture there, but I, I, I hope that lands
Brian (10m 51s):
Well. Yeah. I mean, we talk a lot about quality sleep, and I'm, I'm sure working with veterans, you know, this is, you know, obviously an issue when they come back from whatever, you know, whatever they, they served in or whatever they did in their, you know, coming back. Is that what you found with a lot of the veterans you work with? Is there just this lack of sleep and then it just sort of snowballs into other things?
Tim (11m 16s):
Well, the veterans highlight a society wide problem because in our society, people just take poor sleep for granted.
Brian (11m 27s):
And
Tim (11m 27s):
I'll ll tell ya now, one thing, one thing we used to do in the special forces, Brian, was target our enemy's sleep. Mm. Because we, because we knew right, that if we could take out their sleep for three nights, it would mess 'em up better than a bullet. Hmm. All right. And I come home to the country I love, and people are sleeping so poorly, there's no clear enemy. But it's almost like the economy is based on us not seeing our sovereign power. Because if we could see our sovereign power and we could generate the energy we need, the coffee industry would be outta business. You know, the, the energy drink would be outta business. The pharmaceutical industry would be outta business. So there's this, there's this conscious effort for people to not see their sovereign power.
Tim (12m 11s):
And, and, and this is why I could be so effective. 'cause I simply connected people into their, their natural state. And, and we are naturally powerful when naturally energetic energy comes from us and through us. But if we're blocked up and we don't dunno how to remove those blockages, the world we live in says, oh, go see, you know, your gp, go see your psychologist. And I'm not anti pill and I'm not anti, you know, establishment. There's times and places, but what no one tells us when we take these pills is there's a benefit to taking them. But there's also a massive cost and there's nothing for free in this world.
Tim (12m 51s):
And I also don't tell ya how hard it is to come off these pills. And, and this is not a conversation. It's so easy. Go, oh, right, yeah, that's good. In the first couple weeks. Yeah. Wow. That's, that's making a difference. But you're not seeing that there is a cost to that. And like I said, man, I, I lost six years and, and coming off those pills, it was like, it was like I had to pay back all the, all the energy loans that were given me. And I've never had a second feel like a minute having, having this extreme duress going through my system a second, seemed like a minute, a minute, seemed like a day.
Tim (13m 35s):
And yeah, I, I went fully crazy trying to get off this stuff. And I, I, I completely understand why people who are in a, in a, in a vulnerable state, they take these pills, there's a, there's a short term benefit, but then the longer they're on them, the harder it is to get off. And it's, it's, it's almost like an abusive relationship where, you know, if you don't do what that pill wants you to do, it'll punish you,
Brian (14m 0s):
You know? Yeah. And when, when did you learn, where'd you learn breath about breath work and how that can help, you know, like transform your sleep and obviously help you with your mental health as well?
Tim (14m 14s):
Oh, so I was, I was on this mystic mountain and this sage came to me. No, no, it wasn't
Brian (14m 19s):
Like that. I was getting into that for a second. Yeah. I'm sorry
Tim (14m 22s):
Dude. I'm sorry. Okay. But, but the, the reality is I was tired as hell in the dirt of Afghanistan. And there's one thing they teach your soldiers is before we take a sight picture, you take a deep breath in, you let it out slowly, and then you squeeze the trigger. And I was, I was beyond fatigue, beyond poor sleep. You know, we, we'd lost mates, we'd had limbs blown off others, and, and I'm thinking, I'm gonna die. I'm like, what's the fricking point? And you never got anything you'd call sleep that I, I, there was this thing in my head where I'm like, there's no points. Don't even try. You've only got 2 cents worth of energy.
Tim (15m 3s):
Just protect, protect what's left. Then after a few minutes, this kind of voice said, Tim, if you've only got 2 cents worth of energy, you better invest that 2 cents wisely. And so when I was horizontal, I would do this thing where you take a deep breath in, let it out. But I'd focus on my non-dominant hand, not my, not my trigger finger, my non-dominant hand. And I would focus on my left thumb, and I'd breathe into that. And I noticed if I took enough deep breaths, I would turn that thumb into light. It's like it would become white. And then I'd do my pointer finger, you know, my index, my ring my pinky, and then I'd pull that through my whole body.
Tim (15m 44s):
And then whatever sleep I got, it was so much more restorative. And I woke up with 8 cents worth of energy. I'm like, well, there's a pattern with this 8 cents, I'll invest it again. Breath work before bed or before sleep. And I got 16 and I kept on re just this little bit of whatever I had, I kept on reinvesting it, reinvesting it. And then I got to this point where I'm like, I'm actually feeling pretty good. And I started doing, you know, extra exercise, you know, some pushups and sit-ups, lifting an ammo tin. This is all in the field. And it's not like I wasn't busy. And then I sort of got to this point where I'm, I'm like, I'm, I'm pretty solid right now, but I was also in a team and I realized if my team was having a bad day, you know, I'm having a bad day.
Tim (16m 31s):
And I then started this sort of trying to help others. I didn't know what breath work was, but out of my abu you know, out of my energy, I, I started helping others. And that's sort of where it started. And then I, and like I said, I didn't know breath work was a thing, but then I, I'd, you know, gotten outta the, the, the army. And I was running around just doing a jog with a mate, and I had a cold sore. And I just mentioned I was just gonna go down the chemist and spend 20 bucks on some lysine. And he goes, no, no, no, don't do that. Just, just do this particular breath work technique, and you will get rid of the cold sore.
Tim (17m 14s):
I'm like, well, you know, if it saves me 20 bucks, I do it. And it does. I'm like, oh, there's something to this. So I start finding out more and more about breath work. And, you know, Wim Hof is one of the greatest pioneers in that space. And then I was doing it, But it wasn't until I had a divorce And, you know, I'd lost house, home money, regular access to kids, and there is a war zone worse than Afghanistan going off in my head, sleeping on the couch of my parents' place. And at 2:00 AM I'm not sleeping.
Tim (17m 55s):
And at that point, I knew breath work would give me peace if I breathed. But in that state of duress, it's like I couldn't, it was like my, my, my, the crap that was going on in my head wanted to keep going on. And if I took a, a, a step to try and stop it with my breath, I just couldn't breathe. And so I, I, I remember getting up 2:00 AM and I'm gonna do drugs, alcohol, self-harm, maybe all three. But it was so ironic. I knew breath would give me peace, but I couldn't do it. So I, I looked at my left thumb and I said, Tim, you can take one breath, take one fucking breath. And I drove it into my chest really hard.
Tim (18m 38s):
Oh my gosh. That worked. Take two, two breaths. And we drove two fingers in, this is working, take three, five breath, get to 10, get to 10, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. And then somewhere between breath 15 and 25, all that crap that was in my head got kicked out. And it was like, the rest of my brain went, Tim, this is working. Don't stop, keep kicking you. You've kicked the crap out. Keep doing this. And I'm like, shit, I have to start. So I started making these little recordings to, to, to tell me to breathe a certain way, just to sort of, 'cause I, I noticed that even though I wanted to breathe, I couldn't, I needed an external point, right. And that would actually work in, in, in the worst.
Tim (19m 19s):
I thought, well, if it works in the worst of the worst situations, I I've of every confidence that this will work with others. And so I started making these little recordings to go to sleep. And then I started making these little recordings to get out of bed because I would wake up feeling like lead, but breath work sort of turned that lead into gold. And I'm like, this, this is just so consistent. So a a mate of mine who hadn't been sleeping for 38 years, and he just thought it was normal. Yeah. I gave him a, you know, a prescription of breath work. Seven days later, he goes, I've slept for the last seven nights, and he became my business partner.
Tim (20m 3s):
We, we created breath work in bed. And we, we, the, the genius of that is all you have to do is tell it when you wanna sleep, when you wanna wake up, and then it just falls outta your phone because everyone's talking about sleep. How important it's, you know, everyone's given you hacks. But what I've noticed is if you can't drop it into someone's lifestyle and make it easy and effortless, if you can't make an, like a, a, a habit easy and effortless, then it's really hard for them to take it up because, you know, they're already busy and they're often tired because they're so busy. So I thought if, if we can, if we can just make it easy and effortless for people to breathe, to go to sleep, breathe to wake up, I think in my perspective, yeah, the, if you really care about somebody, you, you'll care about how they sleep.
Tim (20m 49s):
Just like, you know, if they're your enemy, you'd, you'd wanna deny them sleep.
Brian (20m 54s):
Yeah. And that, wow, thanks for sharing that. And so now what is, what is that your main goal to, to just work with individuals and spread the, you know, the power of breath work and how it can sort of help you with sleep and stress? And I mean, we talk a lot about like, you're right, like we talk about how you want to create like a sleep environment and obviously there's certain things that can help you get sleep, but Yeah, I mean, I always find when I'm, I sleep pretty well, but there are times where, you know, you go to the bathroom, you come back, it's like, might take you a little bit longer to fall asleep. Those are some of the time of the times where I might struggle a little bit and I always try to just focus on my breath and that usually helps.
Brian (21m 35s):
But yeah, I, i, it, it, it is something that I feel like you have to practice to get better at it. I don't know your thoughts on that. And,
Tim (21m 41s):
And it can be quite hard because I know my subconscious mind was very used to running the night. You know, it would, it would, you know, I call 'em stress weeds, you know, the analogy I use of, think of your mind like a garden, whatever your water grows. And for years I was watering the weeds of stress and they knew they would run the show at nighttime. Yeah. And so I'd get up at 2:00 AM and these things were like, great, we can, we can take all of Tim's resources and it, and, and so just, just, just to have a little button you can press to tell ya to breathe a certain way. And even, even though I know it works, there's always that part of me that says, this is bullshit, it's not gonna work. But then a minute or two and you're like, oh, there it is.
Tim (22m 22s):
And, and I, and I can't tell ya, you know, in some other reality, there's a Tim that's really cranky and possibly not even here because he didn't discover the, the resources. So if you ask me what my main goal is, breathwork in bed is just a small part of that. My main goal for everyone I meet yourself and your listeners, is for them to become what I call physically sovereign, you know, to, to see that underneath their skin, they have a host of wonderful resources, and you can access that. And ignorance of your own incredible resources won't get you out of the, the impact of looking outside of yourself for answers.
Tim (23m 7s):
So, like I said, I didn't know my breath work could help me sleep, restore peace and healing. So I got addicted to pills for six years. And there's, so, yeah, my main goal, like I said, physical sovereignty for people that wanna realize just how wondrously we are made, Hey
Brian (23m 29s):
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Brian (24m 11s):
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Tim (24m 19s):
Well,
Brian (24m 20s):
Let's do, you mentioned before you have sort of a, a little activity. Yeah, we can do. 'cause I'm big into like performance. Like I'm, I'm a golfer, so, and I coach high school kids golf. So, but anybody in that matter, like golf is one of those things where you're sort of out there alone. Like, and it can be, it can be a bit stressful out there if you're not doing the things you wanna do. So like a lot of times we say, oh, well, you know, take a deep breath and this and that. But any, any things that, anything I can share with, with, you know, the kids that I work with and even myself or golf would be great. So
Tim (25m 0s):
No problem at all. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna show you something that will make the impossible possible and bring peace when needed. Okay? So this one's called the breath of peace and possibility. And all it is is three breaths, and you'll get back into control of your body. In fact, I was showing this to a bunch of high school students the other week. It's, it's the quickest way to get, it's like dipping your toe in the ocean of breath and feeling amazing when you do it. So it's really simple. And if I'm in a controlled environment, and, and I'll just start with breath, work isn't hard.
Tim (25m 44s):
What's hard about it is that you've been breathing your whole life. Okay? So we've got a certain inbuilt muscle memory to it, okay? And so to do anything different can be, can be kind of a bit of a jar to the system. So, so when I'm working with somebody, I always ask three questions. I'm gonna ask 'em a view. And I, and I just invite your listeners to, to draw these questions to them selves. Brian, do you give permission to your breath to fully nourish your physical body?
Brian (26m 17s):
Yes.
Tim (26m 18s):
Awesome. Brian, do you give your breath full permission to fully nourish your conscious mind?
Brian (26m 26s):
Yes.
Tim (26m 27s):
Do you give your own breath full permission to fully nourish your unconscious mind?
Brian (26m 34s):
Yes.
Tim (26m 35s):
Awesome. All right. So this is really simple. We start, we simply breathe in and out, okay? And if you did that, congratulations, that that's your first step to empowerment. You become conscious of your breath. 'cause mental health in my book isn't a mental problem. It's a physical disconnect problem. When we are so focused out there, we disconnect from our own body. What do you see someone doing before they freak out? You know, they lose control of their breath. So connecting back to your body with your breath is the first step. But, so now what we're gonna do, we're gonna build on that basic inhale. Exhale is when we breathe in, we're gonna breathe in again and again and again and again.
Tim (27m 17s):
Cool, cool. So I'll just invite you to blow it out, shake it out, blow it out, shake it out, blow it out, shake it out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out. Then breathe in, then breathe in more, more, more, more, more, more, more. Hold it, wriggle your shoulders, and then just let it out. Now did you notice when you breathed in again and again, that a bit of extra space opened up in your top third? Yeah. Okay, so, so we're gonna call that your secondary inhale. Your primary is where you normally breathe in and out.
Tim (27m 57s):
Your secondary is your top third. So let's just focus on that for a second. Breathe in and then breathe in again, in and again and again. And just focus on that secondary, okay? So just encourage you to blow it out, shake it out, out, out, out, out, out. And then breathe in. And then breathe into that secondary space. Hold it. When you're in, when you're in hold it wriggle it, wriggle it. Feel it opening up. Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle. And if it feels good, let it out with a bit of a sigh. Ah, okay. Now, some people feel a bit of energy after that. And if you do, just let it in.
Tim (28m 37s):
Okay? Energy has an intelligence all of its own. It'll go to where it's needed. Some people, you know, stretch their neck, some people, ah, yawn, whatever that is, that energy's there for you, right? And this is why we've gotta give it permission. 'cause breath work, in many ways is an act of receivership to let this awesome stuff in. So, like I mentioned, our bodies are incredible. And the thing that puts a big smile on my face, Brian, is showing people just how wonderful their body is. We've had these bodies our whole life, and they can do incredible things, but we just don't know until we're shown, right? So what a lot of people dunno, Brian is in our thumb and two fingers.
Tim (29m 19s):
We have these power buttons. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna breathe in, and when it gets to our secondary inhale, we're gonna pinch our thumb into our two fingers. Okay? Pinch it down really hard. And just notice the impact that has on your secondary inhale. So, does that make sense? Okay. So we're gonna blow it out. We're gonna breathe in, and when it gets to the secondary inhale, we're gonna pinch our two fingers into our thumb as hard as we can, and just observe the impact on our secondary inhale. Cool,
Brian (29m 53s):
Cool, cool.
Tim (29m 55s):
Blow it out, shake it out, blow it out, shake it out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out. And just have your power buttons ready. Start breathing in, then hit those power buttons
Tim (30m 6s):
In, in, in. Hold it. Wriggle your shoulders, wriggle your shoulders.
Tim (30m 10s):
Feel that space opening up. Feel that space opening up. And then let it out with a nice big sigh. And just let that integrate. Some people feel something, some people don't. It's okay. But did you notice, Brian, any difference when you hit those power buttons on your secondary inhale?
Brian (30m 34s):
Maybe a little bit like I I maybe a, like, I I felt like could go get, I could deeper breath. Yeah.
Tim (30m 42s):
Yeah. So, so these muscle, this is a muscle group underneath here. And we are used to sort of going to a certain range of movement, but to open that movement up, when we hit these power buttons, we actually sort of activate them a little bit more. Mm. So I'm gonna show you how to activate them even more. So as we hit our power buttons, now we're gonna look up, but look up in a way that we are almost trying to roll our eyeballs into the back of our head, okay? And we're gonna look up, and you'll notice that'll sort of naturally raise your head as well. And, and I, and, and I, I, I do need to say this is breathing through the nose. Yeah.
Brian (31m 18s):
I was gonna ask, yeah. Okay. That, that's what I've been doing. So,
Tim (31m 22s):
Yeah. And so just, if you, if you're listening to this, we're gonna blow it all the way out. With our mouth closed, we're gonna breathe in, we're gonna hit those power buttons. We're gonna look up and sort of open our chest a bit more. Okay? Cool. Cool. All right. So blow it out, shake it out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out. Have your power buttons ready, breathing in, looking up,
Tim (31m 44s):
Raise your chin, pinch your power buttons. Open, open, open.
Tim (31m 52s):
Hold your breath.
Tim (31m 53s):
Riggle, wriggle, wriggle, wriggle those shoulders,
Tim (31m 55s):
Fill that chest open up. And if it feels good, let it out with a sigh. Ah, Now if you look at my nose, okay, I'm flaring my nostrils behind our nose, we have sinuses. And when I, I used to be a professional fighter before I was in the special forces. And one thing my coach used to say to me was, before you do a combination snort through your nose, okay, do a big snort. 'cause in his mind, it drew oxygen straight through to your brain and it brought you clarity.
Tim (32m 36s):
Now, what they found is when we breathe around nose, it produced nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is a vasodilator. It's good for your brain, it's good for your mood regulation, it's good for your heart and your lungs. So nose nasal breathing is super healthy, but it also gives you sort of a, a certain amount of clarity when you really snort in through the nose. So we are gonna do exactly what we did before, but we're gonna double the speed, okay? So we're gonna blow it out and I'll give you a little demonstration for those, watching this on video, blow it out. And then we're gonna really roll our eyeballs up and, and really snort that as we lift our chest so we can get the velocity of air going over our sinuses, and we're absorbing oxygen through our sinuses as well.
Tim (33m 28s):
Hmm. Cool, cool. Right. All right. So this is blowing it out, shaking it out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out with those power buttons. Ready? Double the speed of the inhale. Roll your eyeballs and your head, hold it, R it, r it, regular it, and then let it out with a side. Now, Brian, I'm gonna correct your, your swing right now. Okay? I'm, I know I'm using a golfing term. You gotta, you gotta, you got that inhale has to be twice as fast.
Tim (34m 11s):
Okay? Okay. Okay. So, so, so you know how forward momentum is relative to going back momentum. Sure. So you, so, so I want you to, to, to draw that all the way back. So blow it all the way out. Like blow out more than usual. In fact, if you need to face the ground, and, and this is what I encourage people to do when they blow it out, face the ground. And when they're all the way out, then they spring up, you know, with their power buttons, eyeballs rolled up, looking at the ceiling, almost leaning back. Okay? All right. So, okay, so lower it out, shaking out head, head down towards your knees, head down towards your knees, out, out, out, out. Head forward, head forward, out, out, out, out, out, out, out with those power buttons, mouth closed.
Tim (34m 50s):
Now double the speed of your inhale as you look at the ceiling. That's it. Hold it rle it wriggle it wriggle it. R it, riggle wriggle. Feel that chest opening up. Open, open, open. And then let it out with a big sigh. Ah, And just sit with that for a second. That noise you made told me you're doing it right. That okay? And this one I call the breath of possibility because you notice when we breathe in, we straighten our structure.
Tim (35m 35s):
Okay? So we are not just getting more energy because we're oxygenating we are getting more energy. 'cause we've got the right structure. And our, our energy system, electrical generator is our brain. We've got these nerves running through our body and our nerves are like hose pipes. You know, if you step on your garden hose, you don't have much water going through it. Well, look what happens when I've got crap in my head that I don't want there, I start hunching over. You know, you're seeing the guys with the weight of the world on their shoulders. They are literally pinching off their energy systems. And in many ways it's a self-creating prophecy. Oh, life is terrible. Well, yeah, it is when you've stepped on your own energy system, but proper breathing gives you proper alignment.
Tim (36m 20s):
And what I encourage people to do, and this is the takeaway here, is have these power buttons. Take 'em with you through your day, you know, and we're all human. Things piss us off. Things frustrate us, things get us down. We have shit in our head we don't want. But with this I'll be discreetly in public, you know, drawing that air into my brain, displacing any thoughts. I don't want hold it discreetly, rigg it, and then I'll let that energy through the system and that puts me back into control. You know, things that are impossible, become possible with more energy. Because, you know, if I've only got 5 cents worth of energy and I'm trying to solve a problem that costs a dollar, I'm like, nah, screw this.
Tim (37m 5s):
Hmm. But if, if I can, if I can generate a thousand dollars, $5 is not a big deal. And so this is what the breath of possibility is. So I encourage people just to use this as a, you, there's a few analogies here. You know, when you're not in the hospital and you've got like a pain relief pump, when you're in pain, you press a button. Well, this is what these buttons are, self-medication, okay? You create your structure, create your state, hold it, regulate. And, and, and that is one of the ones that, that if you get nothing from this podcast, if you use that, you, and the more, there's no, there's no top or bottom to this experience.
Tim (37m 49s):
The more you do this, the more you'll get from that, the more you'll engage from it, the more you'll let go into it. So that's why body, mind, unconscious mind will just be, be so nourished when you focus on this. Now, I'll, I'll leave it at this, but this, this but breath of possibility dovetails into the breadth of peace. I'll give you a link that you can give to your people that they can see the whole thing. But hopefully in that really simple, you know, integrated movement, if people can take that, I feel like, you know, we've done our job where they've got a practical tool. 'cause you know, I don't wanna just talk about this stuff and not give people, you know, access to the, to the wondrous, the wonderful world of breath.
Brian (38m 33s):
Yeah. And is the link is, I think I have the link breathwork in bed.com au. Yes. That one, yes. That,
Tim (38m 40s):
That's all in there. But the link I was talking to was a, a tutorial on the breath of peace and possibility. I can, I can give you all that so you can have it in the show notes and people can, can, can do a deeper dive into that. I mean, we've, we've had a play, we've had an experience and if you like that sort of taste tester, there's, there's, there is a, there are a whole buffet behind it.
Brian (39m 1s):
Hey, I mean, I love this stuff. I think that like having these tools that have with you just in everyday life, you know, someone cuts you off or whatever it is, it's like, you know, we, when you're in control and, and like you're able to sort of regulate your system, I think like then you can deal with a lot of things that come your way.
Tim (39m 22s):
Oh yeah. And if we don't, we end up looking for substances to help us find that balance.
Brian (39m 29s):
Yeah.
Tim (39m 30s):
Yeah.
Brian (39m 31s):
I'm gonna, I like this because I feel like, like in sport this is great too. I'm sure you've worked with guys that are in sport and golf's a big one and there's obviously any sport you could apply it to, but Yeah,
Tim (39m 44s):
Well it's amazing just because someone's a professional athlete doesn't mean they actually understand their body. And, and it always amazes me how many professional athletes dunno how to breathe properly, right? And, and so I mean, the good news is when people discover this stuff, it's, it's a very rapid uptake. Oh, that felt good. Yes, please. That felt good. Yes, please. Yeah. Yeah. There, there's,
Brian (40m 11s):
And I can feel it Now. I could feel it a little bit. I mean it's, yeah, it's like a little bit of just an uptick, you know? Mm, yeah, yeah,
Tim (40m 18s):
Yeah. And that was, that was just a, a couple breaths. You know, if, if you were to stay, stay with me an hour and we did a particular breath work technique, you would experience things that words could not describe. And the reason why breath work is so powerful, Brian is think of us as humans And, you know, we weren't always sentient. We weren't, you know, we didn't always have a thinking mind, you know, so before we were sentient, before we putting, you know, paintings on rock walls, we were breathing and that deep ancient wiring lives inside of us. And that's why I can confidently say to people, it will outrank and kick out all your stress, all your ruminating thoughts.
Tim (41m 4s):
And I used to weaponize this, so in a fight, I'd always, I'd always be the guy that could beat the guy who was more experienced, not because my training and my thoughts and experience was good as him, but if I, I knew if I took out his lungs that wouldn't make a black belt a white belt. And, and this is how powerful our lungs are. It outranks your thinking mind. And to me that's about the most powerful thing someone can know to have that power inside of themselves and to access it whenever you want. Because we end up becoming a slave to our thoughts. And then we start, I ended up taking a bunch of pills to try and to control them. And, and that was never the, that was never the solution.
Tim (41m 49s):
The solution, you know, is inside of us. But what we have been denied is access to that power. And, and like I said, once people tap into this and they become sovereign, it's a, it's a good day to be alive.
Brian (42m 3s):
Hmm. Yeah. This is great. Yeah, I was saying to you before we got on the show that I had another breath work individual out of New York, and it's been a while, but sometimes you gotta get, be reminded of how important just simple basic things like breathing, but you know, obviously there's certain techniques, but if you can get good at those techniques and just be able to use them, whether you're trying to sleep or trying to, you know, get over something that you know is causing stress and it's such a, just a great tool to have.
Tim (42m 34s):
You're right. And the problem is, we're so busy in our busy western world, if I don't have something reminding me to do a certain thing, I usually don't do it. Right. And so that's why, you know, I've spent the last two years creating breath work in bed without sounding like I'm a self licking ice cream here. Do you have that expression in the US A self licking ice cream? You know, that person's great, just ask him, you know?
Brian (43m 0s):
Yeah, right. Yeah. We in one way or the other. Yeah, it's, yeah, we don't, you're, I don't think we use that term, but I like it. It's good.
Tim (43m 9s):
Well, without sounding like one of those, I mean that's, that's what I tried to do with breath work in bed because I knew myself, if something doesn't fall outta my phone to remind me, I don't do it. Okay. So all you have to do is tell this, you know, app, what time do you wanna sleep, what time do you wanna wake up? And then it falls outta your phone so you can have the good stuff exactly when you want it. And, and it becomes a lifestyle because people are always chasing hacks, but hacks don't cut it. They, they stick around for as long as we're motivated to do that. But if we can create a lifestyle of going to sleep with peace and breath and getting outta bed with breath and power, yeah.
Tim (43m 52s):
It's, it's about, for me, that's about the best thing you can do for somebody.
Brian (43m 57s):
Hmm. Well Tim, this was great. I'm glad we got to do some breath work.
Tim (44m 4s):
Yeah, me
Brian (44m 4s):
Too. Reminded me of the importance of it. And hopefully you followed along, whether you're in the car or watching on YouTube, I'll put Links in the show notes. Best place for people to find you. Is it, is it the, you know, the breath work dot breath, I'm sorry? Breath work in bed.com au? Correct. Okay. Awesome. Well, Tim, thanks again. Glad we connected. And I will put yeah, a link in the show notes for people to find you. And I appreciate all the, all the knowledge you dropped on us today.
Tim (44m 36s):
Appreciate you, Brian, and have a fantastic day and I hope you, you all your listeners keep breathing for the rest of their lives.
Brian (44m 45s):
Yeah, hopefully I'll get, get my golf game better too. So I'll let you know how that goes. Thank you. Thanks for listening to the show. I know there's thousands of podcasts out there and you chose to listen to mine. I will put a link in the show notes if you want to connect with my guest. And if you are looking for one-on-one consulting with me, I will put a free 15 minute link so you can set up a call to see if you're fit for my six month health breakthrough program. So thanks again, feel free to rate and subscribe. I would love that to help support the podcast. And Until next time, have a great rest of the day and I will see you on my next podcast. Thanks so much. Thanks.
