Peu de choses sont aussi sous-estimées que l’impact qu’a notre respiration sur le reste de notre vie.

Cela parait évident, mais puisque c’est un processus “automatique”, on y pense rarement.

Dans le monde,

Guillaume Néry, champion national d’apnée descend plus de 120 mètres en mer en moins de 4 minutes en retenant sa respiration.

Wim Hof “The Iceman” bat 20 records mondiaux en gravissant des montagnes enneigées pieds nus ou en restant en apnée sous la glace polaire.

Vous pensez qu’ils sont extraordinaires ?

Non, ils ont juste compris que la respiration était la clé. De tout.

Et ils n’ont rien inventé. Ce savoir, notamment utilisé par l’armée, se transmet depuis les yogis il y a 5 000 ans …. et aujourd’hui les études scientifiques validant les bienfaits sur la santé et sur le “bonheur” tombent à la pelle.

Comment ça marche ?

Au travers d’exercices incluant des variantes de respirations par le nez ou la bouche, le ventre ou les poumons, d’inspirations, expirations et rétentions plus ou moins longues il est possible de “nettoyer” son système immunitaire, calmer son système nerveux … et beaucoup d’autres choses !

Personnellement, travailler sur ma respiration depuis 3 ans m’a (entre autres) permis de :

• Etre en meilleure santé
• Développer mes capacités physiques et perdre du poids
• Etre plus calme et apaisée, calmer des crises d’angoisse
• Méditer plus facilement
• Prendre du recul sur la vie

C’est pour cette raison que j’ai lancé “On respire”, des formations individuelles ou en groupe pour apprendre des exercices simples à refaire soi même pour prendre soin de son corps et de son esprit 🤸‍♀️

J’ai appris le “breathwork” (“travail de la respiration”) principalement en Espagne et en Indonésie, en étudiant les pranayamas en yoga, la respiration holotropique, somatique, les transes induites par la respiration … et en passant mon premier niveau d’apnée.

Comment puis-je vous aider ? :)

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Last October I attended the Kairos Europe Summit, an event where top entrepreneurs tackle global issues. During this three-day event, I spent my time asking everyone around this question: “What would be your one advice, something one can take as a daily habit, to contribute to making the world a better place?”

I wanted to do it because I ask myself this question everyday and we’re leaning more & more towards “individual responsibility” to solve the challenges we’re facing (vs. governments for example).

Here are some of the answers and the insights I got from it:

Have an entrepreneurial mindset

“ Rather than have an expectation of the world delivering you with a solution, be willing to go out on a limb, on your own path of discovery.”

Check the website 80,000 hours

“It’s basically the amount of time that you have in your career. It is a great resource to make career choices while contributing to some of the world’s most pressing problems.”

Focus on education

“I think that education is the way to start and to scale, so spending time on reflecting and reforming the way we educate is a definitive first start.”

Fall in love with the problem, not the solution

“I’ll quote one of my teachers Uri Levine: it’s easy for us to fall in love with our solution and not spend enough time to define the problem. Also, try to shift your lens from others’ perspective.”

Embrace complexity

“The key is to understand that everything in our world is a system made of systems. People have tried to solve problems with a linear lateral siloed approach and few of them have been successful. But if you take that complex system approach, you’re bound for success.”

Engineer serendipity

“That’s the Kairos EU slogan. Think big, boldly and take risks. Approach everything you dream of as if it was possible. Serendipity happens eventually — it’s just a function of time and persistency.

Be fearless

“I think it’s having this drive to really just dream big and go forward. Don’t hold back. Find others who inspire you, learn about them and learn from them.”

Appreciate the simple things

“Family, friends, the relationships that really make life worth living. Everything else is just a way to achieve this.”

Smile to others

“Think of the person that you have in front of you. You can do a lot of things, but this little thing, smiling to your coworkers, someone on the bus… These good vibes make a difference, they make the world greater.”

Clean up your own garden

“Clean up your own room and close environment. If everyone was picking the trash in front of the door there would be no trash. That’s the easiest advice I can give to anyone: contribute just a little to the community.”

Look into yourself

Try to understand what you are doing & how you’re affecting the world. Always ask yourself if you’re doing it for yourself, your ego, or if it actually is really something that pushes the world forward and solves problems. Where is your power directed to?

Meditate, at least once every day

“The single greatest thing to change my life was adopting a morning ritual. It consists of breathing, practicing meditation, and writing down as well as feeling into everything I have to be grateful for.”

Learnings

So, what can we take from that?

Did you notice anything about the order I picked to show the answers?

Go back up and take 20 seconds to think …

They go from things you can do outside of yourself to inside yourself. They also have a local to an “at-scale” impact

Which brings me to this quote I really love and I think is one of the true keys to help the world move towards the right direction:

“I was clever so I wanted to change the world, now I’m wise so I’m changing myself” — Rumi

Bonus, here’s mine :)

Connect more to yourself, and then to others & nature

“I truly think we could have a big impact on the 17 UN SDGs** by teaching everyone the basics of breathing correctly & meditation from a young age.”

→ What’s yours? Comment below! I’d love to add them to the scheme

* The Kairos EU Summit is an event that brings together 150 of the brightest entrepreneurs and 50 of the world’s most influential industry leaders. The goal is to tackle Europe’s most pressing challenges (healthcare, education, immigration & climate change) through collective impact.

** “The 17 UN SDGs” stands for 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: a collection of global goals set by the United Stations part of the Resolution “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”

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(Big thanks to Lyna 🙏 for helping me gather all this material)