Hey, there are thanks for joining me on another solo episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians Today. Today, I want to talk to you about the power of the outbreath. You can say, the outbreath actually saved me, and it's a it's a powerful lesson for me, and I think I hope that someone out there might benefit from this as well.
So I guess to start, I just want to ask you if you feel like, have you ever hit a point where you're you're so drained, like so completely worn out that even the act of brushing your teeth feels like running a marathon, pill like in flip flops while carrying emotional baggage. Well, that's that's been me lately the past few weeks. I honestly have been running on fumes. Every morning, I'm finding I'm having to drag myself out of bed. It's honestly, it's felt like a battle against
gravity and my own resistance to the daily grind. Like I've been so burnt out, so burnt out, so tired, so exhausted that I just find it so challenging to even get up out of bed every morning. And I know what the cure is. I know that all I need to recharge, to get rid of the burnout is to go sit on a Caribbean beach somewhere, having drinks brought to me by a wonderful server while I have an amazing book in my hand, and I do nothing but just drink in the sun and the vitamin rich
just power of the energies around that particular scenario. That's really what feeds my soul. I was born on an island, so it just that's what I need. And it's been a very very very long time since I have had that, so things I've been building up. Every vacation that I've taken has something has come up where I've just not been able to relax. Last vacation, those of you who have heard the show for a while remember that I
broke my ankle when I went to Europe. So it's been it's been challenging not sharing this with you to give you a woe is Me story, but rather to kind of level set how I've been feeling so that this episode, this story hopefully resonates with you. All that being said, there was a point a couple of days ago where I reached my limit, my point of breaking something inside me actually cracked, not in a breakdown kind of way, more like a like a pressure valve finally
giving out. And I found myself just letting out a sound. Actually it was more than a sound. It was a scream. It even surprised me. Actually it wasn't planned, it wasn't theatrical, it was it was just like this. I had reached my limit and I let out a raw, primal, just scream, loud enough to startle myself even Well, here's while a part. I felt a little better, not fixed, not healed, but better.
So I did it again, and I found myself just letting out the primal scream at the top of my lung is just every energy inside me, just aha, going out into the atmosphere. And when I finished that, I felt even a little bit better. So I did it again and again and again until I was literally out of breath, when I couldn't scream anymore. Suddenly it hit me,
that is the power of the outbreath. Now. I know it sounds like the kind of thing you'd find printed on a mug, got a yoga retreat or something like that. But stay with me, this this wasn't about deep, quiet, serene breaths. It was about expelling, releasing, letting God loudly, messily, cathartically, like I let everything go. Every little bit of my energy was involved. It was in that out breath, and
I felt better. I felt better. Well. I did some research after that, and it turns out that even modern medicine, while it doesn't always buy into the whole healing power breath thing. Well, when you think, when they still tell us to take a deep breath before sticking us with something sharp or unpleasant, right now, why is that? I think it's because somewhere deep in our biology, breath equals comfort, control, maybe even hope. Instinctively, we inhale before the pain, and
we exhale to release it. It's not just a distraction, though, That is how modern medicine is using the breath. It's okay, take a deep breath and then bam, right, it's a distraction of what's happening. But what happened is when we inhale, we tense up because we know pain's coming. But when we exhale, we're able to release a lot of that pent up anxiety and it helps us with the pain.
Think about it in ancient Greek theater. There literally was a chorus built into every tragedy whose job was to wail, moan, and grieve for the audience. They were there to let the emotion out for you, so you didn't have to carry it alone. Today we have therapy. Back then they had primal group sighing, And honestly, I kind of get
it now. When I hit my limit the other day, my breath became like the pressure valve, a stopgap, a sacred scream, not a cure, but a moment of release until I can get to that beach and truly unplug. So today, if you're carrying something heavy, why not trying. You don't have to scream in the middle of your office unless your coworkers are actually really chill. But try first, sighing, moan, whimper if you have to. But let that breath move through you like it's got somewhere to go. Because it
does breath, It connects us to the present. It's the bridge between our frantic minds and our buried feelings. It's the quiet whisper that says you're still here. So let's try this. Go ahead and stand by a window and stare out into the distance like you're in a dramatic indie film. You're just looking out over the horizon. Now, notice your first few shallow breaths. Don't judge them, just
notice them. Now. When you take your next fuel breaths, let them be a little deeper, more natural, almost like your body's sighing for you. I'll go ahead and let your mind wander, let it spill into the emptiness inside you. Don't expect fireworks, don't expect clarity. Just breathe, Just breathe. Allow that outbreath to come out in a heavy sigh.
Allow the energy to be connected to that outbreath. Let all your tension, all your frustrations, connect to that outbreath, and exhale it out as if you were ejecting an old cassette tape. Bio. I just dated myself, I realized that. But you'll be amazed how powerful it is. In Sanskript,
breath is called prana. In Greek it's pneuma. Both mean life force, and whether you're howling at the moon or you're simply sighing into your steering wheel, that breath might just be the soul's way of whispering you got this, and hey, if all else fails. If that soft sighing, breathing, whimpering doesn't work for you, then scream it. Scream it out, let it out. Go in the middle of a field somewhere and scream it out loud and proud, because hey, you are not broken, You are breathing, and you need
to allow these tensions to come out of you. And I found that there is no better way to do that than to let it out with my breath. It's not just a breathe out. Remember, it's an attaching of the emotions into that outbreath. We have it for a reason, folks, Go ahead and use it. Don't be afraid. Go ahead and scream out and allow yourself to calm the luxury of accepting the tensions, accepting what you're going through, and accepting the fact that you need to let it out.
So do it. Let it out. If this works for you, if you try it and all of a sudden, the primal screams that you let out do help you in some way, I would really love it if you reach out and you let me know. I know, I know that I'm not the only one. There's so much going out on in the world right now that there's so much pressure building inside each and every one of us. We have to find a way to release it. And this is one way that I found that worked for me.
So if you're out there and it works for you, please let me know. I'd love to know that I'm not the only crazy person out in the middle of a field screaming. All right, I really appreciate you sitting through my little escapade. I guess for lack of a better word, and I don't want you to worry. I am feeling better. But at the end of the day, aren't we all just humans going through spiritual awakenings. Well,
let's help each other. If you have gone through this and you want to let me know, add it to the comments below, or send me a voicemail. Go to Skeptic midposition dot com. Leave me a voicemail there, let me know how this helped you, how this worked, and maybe we'll just do an entire episode of people just expressing the wonderfulness of the outbreath. All right, that's it for today. Thanks so much for listening, and see you on the next one. Remember to breathe out