021. Patrick McKeown: Are We Breathing All Wrong?

TODAY'S GUEST Patrick McKeown is the best-selling author of The Oxygen Advantage, and the Clinical Director of the Buteyko Clinic International. Over the past two decades, Patrick has trained thousands of people around the world to safely challenge their bodies and produce positive changes through correct breathing. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading breathing re-education experts.   EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we discuss: [2:16] Flourishing under COVID [4:59] Early in life, deciding never to work for someone else [9:33] Growing up with asthma, trouble concentrating and sleep [11:01] Why mindfulness meditation isn't enough [16:05] Breathing for concentration [22:29] Traveling to the USSR to study from Prof. Buteyko [25:28] The Buteyko Method [32:28] What's wrong with how we breath today? [41:42] Why spiritual traditions emphasize the breath? [46:50] The breath as connecting between the conscious and the subconscious, left and right hemispheres. [49:06] A short sermon to breathers.   EPISODE LINKS Patrick's Links 🌍 The Oxygen Advantage 🌍 Buteyko Clinic 📘 The Oxygen Advantage 📕 The Breathing Cure 📔 Sleep with Buteyko 📣 Twitter: @OxygenAdvantage   ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePod.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: [email protected] 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

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Remake is a podcast about Design, Systems, and Society. And I'm Eran Dror, a product designer and researcher of eastern religions. In each episode I interview someone who’s trying to change our lives for the better in some meaningful way, whether through a new product, new venture, or new way of looking at the world, and I try to understand how they came to it, what makes them tick, and what we all can learn from them. I truly believe Design is strategic, that it goes to the core, that it's at the root of what it means to be human. In this show we explore an expansive view of design, and cover Systems Thinking, Social Innovation, Secular spirituality, and the future.