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Sponsor:
This episode is brought to you by Oxa, the first breathing wearable with live biofeedback, and your coach for enhanced sleep and stress relief.
Oxa measures in real-time your vitals like your heart and respiratory rates, and creates personalized breathing exercises for you to control stress and get better sleep. Head over to oxalife.com for more details on how Oxa can help you live a healthier life!
Show Notes:
In this episode, we talk with Dave Wood about stress and how breathing can be leveraged to get stress levels under control.
Dave is a renowned specialist in stress mitigation, recovery, and mental preparedness, having built his expertise on his experience as an intensive care paramedic and professional ocean lifeguard in New Zealand.
He takes us through the body's natural stress response, the role of the amygdala and autonomic nervous system, and how these influence our breathing patterns in stressful situations.
In the hectic world we live in, Dave explains the criticality of getting stress under control by reinstating balance between the stimulation of our sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
By the end of this episode, you will know which breathing practices to adopt in your daily life to get stress under control, and be ready to reap the long-term benefits of it!
Timeline:
(00:00:42) The physiology of stress
(00:05:40) Stress in the modern world and its dangers
(00:13:23) Balancing the nervous system as a means of stress relief
(00:20:18) Breathing practices and mechanics to get stress under control
To learn more about Dave’s work and book his services, take a look at WMW Integrated Training.
If you enjoy this episode of the Oxa Podcast, subscribe on YouTube or your preferred listening platform, and give us feedback via email (using [email protected]) or in the comments section. Feel free also to share topic suggestions for the next episodes, as well as guest recommendations.
If you know someone who would benefit from today’s conversation, don’t hesitate to share the episode with this person.
As an additional way to support the show, you can leave us a 5-star review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, it helps us a lot in bringing the podcast forward!
Thank you for your time and for your interest in the science of breathing!
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By Oxa LifeSponsor:
This episode is brought to you by Oxa, the first breathing wearable with live biofeedback, and your coach for enhanced sleep and stress relief.
Oxa measures in real-time your vitals like your heart and respiratory rates, and creates personalized breathing exercises for you to control stress and get better sleep. Head over to oxalife.com for more details on how Oxa can help you live a healthier life!
Show Notes:
In this episode, we talk with Dave Wood about stress and how breathing can be leveraged to get stress levels under control.
Dave is a renowned specialist in stress mitigation, recovery, and mental preparedness, having built his expertise on his experience as an intensive care paramedic and professional ocean lifeguard in New Zealand.
He takes us through the body's natural stress response, the role of the amygdala and autonomic nervous system, and how these influence our breathing patterns in stressful situations.
In the hectic world we live in, Dave explains the criticality of getting stress under control by reinstating balance between the stimulation of our sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
By the end of this episode, you will know which breathing practices to adopt in your daily life to get stress under control, and be ready to reap the long-term benefits of it!
Timeline:
(00:00:42) The physiology of stress
(00:05:40) Stress in the modern world and its dangers
(00:13:23) Balancing the nervous system as a means of stress relief
(00:20:18) Breathing practices and mechanics to get stress under control
To learn more about Dave’s work and book his services, take a look at WMW Integrated Training.
If you enjoy this episode of the Oxa Podcast, subscribe on YouTube or your preferred listening platform, and give us feedback via email (using [email protected]) or in the comments section. Feel free also to share topic suggestions for the next episodes, as well as guest recommendations.
If you know someone who would benefit from today’s conversation, don’t hesitate to share the episode with this person.
As an additional way to support the show, you can leave us a 5-star review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, it helps us a lot in bringing the podcast forward!
Thank you for your time and for your interest in the science of breathing!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.