“Hook yourself up to a blood pressure cuff or a heart rate variability real-time monitor. And you can see in real time how changing your breathing changes your nervous system”

“For four days, you use the cuff to calibrate the device… once the system is calibrated, you can just wear this wristband and it takes blood pressure readings throughout the day… about every two hours.”

“So for me, it's taking the breath. It's just taking the breath and slowing it down. Because when it slows down, it doesn't have the urgency that makes things grow or makes them bigger than they are.”

“If my nurse wants to do a blood pressure check and we bring the patient back and the blood pressure is beautiful, great. She can document that, send me the note, and there's nothing else that needs to happen until I see the patient again.”

“I do two minutes of belly breathing before my two main meals... switches from chest breathing to slow breathing into your belly, dials down that stress response.”