Reset Your Nervous System in THREE MINUTES Flat?! The Science Of Resonance Breathing (& A *Lamp* That Makes It Easy!) With Dr. Jay Wiles

**Ben Greenfield** (0:00)
My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life Podcast. Okay, so this stone is not just like vibrating and just doing its thing on its own, it's actually reading me.

**Dr. Jay Wiles** (0:11)
It's reading you, it maps your nervous system, and it watches your breathing pattern. The algorithm basically, Ben, is looking to say, how can we amplify that nervous system response to get you into a state where we're training your nervous system to make those adaptations to make you more resilient?

**Ben Greenfield** (0:30)
Welcome to the Boundless Life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist and nutritionist, and I'm passionate about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity and beyond. Reset your nervous system in about three minutes flat. And this new science called resonance breathing, well, it's not new, it's been around since humans have been around, but now we're discovering the power of it and how to do it. We even talk about this cool technology, this little lamp called the Ohm, which is kind of taking the biohacking world by storm. All this and more with Dr. Jay Wiles. The show notes are at bengreenfieldlife.com/ohmpodcast, that's Ohm Podcast, bengreenfieldlife.com/ohmpodcast.

**Dr. Jay Wiles** (1:23)
Here we go.

**Ben Greenfield** (1:25)
This is going to be fun, especially for those of you who have been a podcast listener for like, I don't know, more than what, six years, Jay?

**Dr. Jay Wiles** (1:33)
Yeah, I'll say we probably started, we did it together with the Q and A's for what, about like two or three years, and then it's probably been about two or three years since then.

**Ben Greenfield** (1:42)
Yeah, yeah. So for those of you listening, Dr. Jay Wiles was my podcast sidekick, providing witty banter, whose job was just basically to play stupid and ask me questions from listeners.
Then I wound up not having any podcast sidekick, and now I mostly interview people and record Q and A episodes all by my lonesome. But Jay and I just got the band back together for this episode, because as a performance psychologist and a psychophysiology expert, that's a mouthful, who specializes in nervous system optimization, Jay has been up to some pretty cool things behind the scenes when it comes to methods to increase your heart rate variability, decrease stress, recover faster, all using some of the latest science around what I guess is technically called resonance breathing. So there you go, Jay. How's that for an intro?

**Dr. Jay Wiles** (2:44)
That was a great tee up, man. Dude, this is good. You're right. We got the band back together here. It feels like the good old days.

**Ben Greenfield** (2:50)
Yeah. Is it weird to be back on the show as a guest instead of as a, I don't know, a partner or a sidekick? Yeah.

**Dr. Jay Wiles** (2:57)
You know, it's interesting. It feels almost like, again, it's like the good old days. I feel like I've like arrived back at like a family reunion and I love the jig there. It's like I've arrived at this like family reunion where all we do is like your trade, like health and wellness trends stories and we're eating grass-fed steaks and, you know, organic sweet potatoes and drinking creatine infused smoothies. So yeah, it's a good time because I know everybody's family is just like what I just described.

**Ben Greenfield** (3:23)
We never actually did that on a podcast, but we should.

**Dr. Jay Wiles** (3:26)
We didn't?

**Ben Greenfield** (3:27)
Yeah. What are you up to?

**Dr. Jay Wiles** (3:30)
Oh man, things have been wild in the last few. So, okay, on a personal note, I guess since the last time I was like, no, it was not, I guess, I know, because this happened four months or so ago, added a new little one to my family. So I have three boys now. So I've got another baby.

**Ben Greenfield** (3:44)
You mean like legally and through the standard, traditional means, or you just like-

**Dr. Jay Wiles** (3:50)
Just snatched one up from the local mall. Yeah. Yeah. No, so I had a baby legally, fully legally, biologically as well. So I just throw that in there. So yeah, man, so it's weird because, you know, I have that age gap between my middle child now and my baby, which is not big, but it's five years. And so you forget a lot. Like you forget a lot of what it's like, but then you remember really quickly. It's kind of like riding a bike all in one. And so now a lot of the personal side is just like, Hey, I'm trying to get back my sleep, trying to make sure that my head's on straight. So that's good. And then, and the more like, I guess, professional realm, a lot of stuff has been going on since the last time I saw you. So a lot to catch you up on, but I'll try to truncate it as much as possible.