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Happiness is a feeling—a direct subjective personal experience of goodness. When you feel happy, you feel good.
A happy life, therefore, is one of ongoing and increasing unitive experience, characterized by such feelings as purpose, meaning, understanding, insight, joy, love, peace, wholeness, healing, growth, evolution, expansion, freedom, creation, beauty, truth, goodness, grace, limitlessness, et cetera.
The only way to resolve trauma, heal brokenness, and undo fragmentation is through unitive experience.
If you tune up your brain, you can tune into small unitive experiences at will,
H=U-F. Your happiness is equal to your unitive experiences minus your fragmentive experiences. As an individual, you are being torn
When you feel happy your epigenome is unfolding and instructing the genes that express both biological health and experiential happiness.
when your healing is greater than your trauma, when you have more unitive experiences than fragmentive experiences, then and only then will you experience happiness, and its biological equivalent—longevity. The GUT of Happiness principle summarized by this simple formula, H=U-F, is interwoven throughout philosophy, science, and religion.
The Goldilocksed Brain: How to tune your brain for happiness (2020), he describes his integral approach to health and happiness through an optimized brain.
human beings have the potential to live one hundred-twenty healthy and high-functioning years, or even more?
the foundational strategies to maximize healthspan and lifespan are similar for all of us; we must simply integrate them into our habit matrix. The power of more advanced strategies is realized when they are layered on top of this foundation.
We now have the tools to provide individuals with their unique code and the understanding of how to create a habit matrix that optimizes epigenetic expression.
The power of precision health puts you in direct control of understanding the best actions to enhance your health and life.
From genes and cellular health to peak performance and vitality, no one input equals one output.
Your genes, your cells, your biomarkers, your inputs and outputs should be assessed as a whole.
Your body will teach you what the best strategies are for you, if you will only take the time to listen.
The human body is an information sensing system. Food, hydration, breath, sleep, environment, movement, social relationships, light, sound, our thoughts, our beliefs, and many other variables all inform our system.
Our mind and body then take all of that information and engineer the best possible response to survive and thrive.
Therefore, to experience the highest performing and longest living versions of ourselves, we must optimize the information our system encounters.
Can you begin to imagine what you can accomplish if you have one hundred and twenty years of life to experience in a healthy and optimized body?
Authentic Health,
the quality and quantity of the breath informs youthful longevity, wellbeing, performance, perception and consciousness itself.
disciplined breath practices served to lengthen life and to inform a healthy and happy existence.
Optimized breath mechanics and respiratory chemistry promotes enhanced cognitive and physiologic performance, cultivates thriving health and wellbeing, and promotes youthful longevity.
count how many breaths you take in that time.
8 breathes in 60 seconds
Do you breathe through the mouth or the nose?
nose
Does the breath move into the chest or the belly?
both
Is the breath shallow...
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deep
Fast or...
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slow
Smooth or...
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smoothe
Silent or a...
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Effortless
A small volume of air is ideal, as deep and large breaths lead to a condition known as hypocapnia or “over breathing.”
We really don’t require as much breath as we think for optimal performance and youthful aging.
Breathing through the nose serves as the first line of defense for our immune system. The nose filters out many harmful toxins, chemicals and warms the breath to body temperature by the time it hits the back of the nose and enters the respiratory tract.
Additionally, breathing through the nose allows the nitric oxide to pool and enter the lungs to benefit the entire human system.
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Breathing rate is also an often overlooked contributor to premature aging and poor health.
once breath rates are above 14 breaths per minute the body is sent signals that indicate anxiety, which results in heart rate increases, and the brain is sent signals that we are in danger and entering fight or flight mode. The ideal breath rate is actually five to seven breaths per minute, which is known as the resonance frequency breath rate.
go to the next level by training heart rate variability and working with brain training to create an enhanced state of cognition and performance.
you may be “Doing the breath rather than Being the breath.”
Ideally, you should spend the first five minutes upon awakening (and before getting out of bed) setting this rhythm into the body.
practice it again as we fall asleep at night.
easy way for us to start taking the reins of gene expression through the cultivation of ideal speed, position and rhythm of breathing.
Hamilton spent thirty years in the USAFR as a Systems Strategist and Human Performance Subject Matter Expert.
What becomes possible for us when our longevity is addressed before we are even conceived?
This revolutionary question is at the heart of this chapter and my body of work.
the health and aging of one generation are merely a continuation of the health and aging of the previous generation, and precursors to the health and aging of coming generations—unless that continuum is actively intercepted.
aging begins before birth. In fact, aging actually begins before conception. And the key to aging, at every and any stage, is epigenetics.
Epigenetics is a Greek word whose literal translation is “above genetics.” Epigenetics refers to the process through which the expression of certain genes can be activated or suppressed through how you interact with each twenty-four-hour period and season, how you sleep, what you think and worry about, what you consume and surround yourself with, how you move your body, and how you connect with other beings and nature.
Through epigenetics, you have the power to shape how your genes express themselves to produce your fertility, health, and longevity.
