Sitting crosslegged and breathing triggered a life-changing reaction.

By the law of averages, you will take 670m breaths over your lifetime. Maybe you’ve already taken half of those. Maybe you’re on breath 669,000,000. Maybe you’d like to take a few million more.

James Nestor explains how sitting crosslegged and breathing for an hour triggered a life-changing reaction.

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Jul 31, 2020

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