![]() Even Hillary Clinton claimed, in her book What Happened, that yogic alternate-nostril breathing was what helped her get over losing the presidential election to Donald Trump: “Breathing deeply from your diaphragm, place your right thumb on your right nostril and your ring and little fingers on your left…” and so on. ![]() Hardcore gym types talked excitedly about breathing as a “remote control for the brain”. New friends told me about conscious breathwork circles and breathing re-education classes. ![]() One of the first people I met, an English film producer, had just had the word “BREATHE” tattooed on her wrist. I first started noticing how fashionable breathing had become when I moved to Los Angeles in 2016. While Hof may be the most eccentric person to tout breath as a panacea for the 21st century, he is not alone. They stay in their brains thinking, ‘This cannot be so simple.’ But it is!” He claims that by performing this exercise daily (along with a regimen of cold showers and meditation), we can help treat a whole suite of conditions and diseases, from depression to arthritis. The person who formulated this exercise, Dutch endurance specialist and multiple world record holder Wim Hof, 59, has trained himself to go up to six or seven minutes. ![]() After three attempts, I managed three minutes 23 seconds of not breathing. ![]()
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