Imagine if there was a way to improve your quality of living and wellbeing - from your sense of creativity to feelings of clarity, boost the performance of your immune system and reduce stress, enhance your sleep and gain insights into your subconscious, and it was all available right now to you, free of cost? It’s too to be true isn’t it? Well, today’s conversation with hypnobreath practitioner Dave Murphy debunks myths and provides the facts on how breathing, hypnosis, visioning and meditation can help unlock a new way of being and living. My name’s Nathan Robertson-Ball, and welcome to or welcome back to the Finding Nature podcast, my show where each week I go longer form to help me and you better understand how we can all live lives that contribute to a healthier, safer and more just world.

I started this show coming up on two years ago after realising I wanted to broaden and deepen my understanding of how I could make shifts in my life and through the work I do and have done in and around corporates and sustainable business. Before starting it I listed out all the topics I wanted to learn about, and that included high performance, cognitive clarity and creativity - areas I suspected were vital to my ability to make the type of contribution on the world and the people around me, but wasn’t sure how to access it. I’ve been fortunate to speak with experts in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and cognitive behaviour, but chatting with Dave made me realise that the portal to any and all activity, change and performance is dependent on the physiology of the breath. And today we get into this.

Dave is a certified hypnobreathwork and flow state coach, as well as certified in breathing sciences and intrinsic health, after spending the first portion of his career following a path he thought would make him happy. Like many, that gnawing inner knock that started as a light tap slowly but surely became a thunderous banging, and in his 30s changed just about everything about his life - where he lived, what he did and who he wanted to be. Now he’s one of Australia’s most sought after experts in the science and practice of breath work, and he works with businesses, small groups and individuals to help them identify and pursue what truly matters to them.

This conversation was a revelation for me - as was doing Dave’s extraordinary online hypnobreathwork course. The science backs the practices - the list of benefits of better breathing isn’t too good to be true - but the experiential aspect of Dave’s coaching is remarkable. The insights and epiphany I had from just one sitting was extraordinary, which I share in this episode. We cover lots in this session, from the science of breath and hypnosis and addressing the scepticism of the latter, his own journey, his time with Zach Bush and Farmers Footprint, and how each of us have available at any moment the opportunity to consciously engage with one of the 25,000 breaths we’ll take today, and for everyday to come until we take that final one.

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