The Unconventional Alchemist | Tracy Scott

Box breathing, also known as square breathing or four-square breathing, is a simple yet effective technique to manage stress, anxiety, and enhance focus. In this online content, we'll explore the benefits of box breathing and guide you through the steps to incorporate this powerful practice into your daily routine.

Respiratory Therapists work in a variety of environments: critical care units, emergency departments, operating rooms, diagnostic testing laboratories, rehabilitation programs and asthma clinics, homecare companies and pharmaceutical or medical equipment sales. Providing care to adults, children and newborns and skilled at using medications, therapies and assessments to assist in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart and lung disease, how to use mechanical ventilators and other life support equipment to sustain life. Learn more about POWER Functional Breathing:

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Join me for this solo-podcast and learn some things about me that you probably didn't know! This is The Story So Far and how I landed on the title "Integrative Functional Health Therapist." I'm hosting an online Open House on Monday, September 25th, 3-6 PM EDT. It's your opportunity to wander through my programs, as well as my botanical remedies and tonics, and imagine living there. Ask questions and learn about your physical body. Drop me a message and I'll send you an invitation to the online Open House, hosted in my private Facebook group.

Welcome back for this final part of this series.

As a society, we are really good at identifying disease and treatments, but we often ignore the root cause of our problems. This is all about the most misunderstood of the gases ... carbon dioxide.

This is our secret weapon against fat loss!

Welcome back for our next episode in this series.

Breathing is an intimate connection between us and the universe. Get ready for a trippy ride through nasal cycling and how our nostrils open and close like flowers in response to our moods, mental states, as well as the sun and the moon. Our bodies work best when they are in balance and its influenced by these cycles!

One of the biggest things I've learned from my 20+ years of working with people, aging, as we know it, is not normal. We are unlearning everything we thought we knew, because these bodies are dynamic! They're able to change and adapt to the environment. They aren't stuck on a pre-determined genetic track. We don't need to lose cognitive function, bone density or lean muscle mass as we get older.

This is part 3 of 6 in the Access the Magic series.

Just as we are a culture of over-eaters, we are also over-breathers. When I was studying respiratory therapy, a respiratory rate of 12-20 bpm (breaths per minute) was considered medically normal. Our adult lungs can hold 4-6L of air and anyone that breaths at the high-end of that normal rate is getting two-times what they need. Breathing less isn't the same as breathing slowly. The key to optimizing the benefits of less breathing is fewer inhales and exhales at smaller volumes. For our body to be efficient, we should breathe as closely inline with our needs as possible. Think of it like the respiratory equivalent of fasting. As your body gets more comfortable with higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the blood, you will unconsciously breathe less during resting hours. This releases more oxygen (O2), increases endurance and better supports all functions in our bodies.

Join me in the 2nd part of this series as we explore the magic of our breath.

Evolution is a funny thing. What we've gained in brain size has fueled our development as humans, but it has come with costs too. About 200 years ago, it became the norm throughout industrialized Europe to have a small mouth, crooked teeth and obstructed airways. It coincides with the development of farming culture, which created the first time in our lives where we could spend our entire life eating nothing but processed food. There was nothing raw, fresh or natural.

Join me in this 6-part series as we explore the magic of our breath.

I've been interested in breathing for a LONG time.

I was in my third year of an undergraduate Biology program when I first heard about the field of Respiratory Therapy. It was 1992, so that's 31 years! It was one of my teaching assistants that first told me about a school in Toronto that was solely for applied health sciences. He was starting a program there the following September and he thought it was something I may be interested in. I can't even tell you how many times that has happened to me. It's the same thing that prompted me to pursue an MBA and we'll save that story for another day.

I know there is a strong connection between our inner awareness and the day-to-day world of health. When we understand what is happening inside our bodies, at the cellular level, it's easier to make decisions that support our well-being and how we experience this life. Our mind is powerful and our thoughts can affect how we feel physically. What escaped me was the link to our breathe and how we can use it to reconnect to our body. When we're connected to our body, we understand its messages. To get to this place of knowing, we need to take a trip back in time.

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It's been a long time since I dropped into this space and I've had a lot of questions lately about what I'm doing these days. Listen as I share what has evolved over the last few years and how you can tap into my world. Everything I discuss is available through the Codes + Magic™ APOTHECARY.

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