Breath Holding Challenge

In work (business or personal leadership) it is important to stay calm and focused even in stressful situations and to be able to make laser-focused and unbiased decisions. Personal issues can become entangled in the decision making process and interfere with your personal and professional development. We experience that performing breath holds can help you become aware of personal issues you may have to confront.


What are the Benefits?

- When holding your breath, you can learn to change your brain activity.

- It reveals the degree to which you are psychologically in balance
– Conquer your mental stability.
- Remove Stress and Calm you down.
– Find how finely you are tuned in on your body.
- The simplicity of breath holds makes it an excellent barometer of your stress level, and makes progress easy to measure.

- On the long run meditation and breath holds seem to develop your nervous system and brain.
- Scientific studies have revealed that people who practice meditation and/or free diving show marked changes in their brain and nervous system.
- One area in the nervous system that undergo changes lies in the brain stem and is connected to the vague nerve. This is part of the calming parasympathetic pathway which counteracts stress.

- At a first glance holding your breath seems very simple: You inhale, hold your breath as long as you can and then start breathing again. It is also quite a simple measure. How many minutes/seconds? But it is at the same time a multifaceted and complex parameter.

Performing breath holds might seem a bit odd, but in fact breath holding make up an important part of the specific part of yoga called pranayama – breathing and breath holding exercises to optimize the life force (prana) and gain full mental control.

And you go into a state of flow. In flow the notion of time disappears and you become what you do. You don’t fight it but rather let go – and win! This is what the best athletes in the world are masters at – and one explanation to their incredible peak performances.