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Episode Description
What do you do before your feet hit the floor? I don't mean coffee or exercise. I mean the minutes before you get out of bed. My guest, Tim Thomas, calls the first five minutes after waking and the last five before sleep the two golden five minutes. Most of us spend them on our phones or let them pass without a second thought. In this episode, we cover how to use breath to change your state, keep worry from hijacking your attention, and build an easy on-ramp so the habit survives a bad morning. We also get into breathing through your thumb and what a pot of coffee taught an Army platoon about ego.
Guest Bio: Tim Thomas is a former professional fighter and Special Forces soldier who has spent over a decade working with veterans, professionals, athletes, and everyday people to improve sleep, resilience, and nervous system health. He is also a survivor of PTSD, pharmaceutical addiction, alcohol addiction, and family breakdown. Along the way, he has raised over 1.3 million dollars for charities close to his heart and founded his company Breathwork in Bed. A platform focused on natural and immediate sleep improvement.
We Discuss:
- The Golden Five Minutes
- Using Breath to Change Our State
- Making a Morning Routine Easier to Do
- Why Starting the Day With Connection Matters
- How to Make Gratitude Something You Actually Feel
- How Ego is a Wall but When We Let it Down, It Becomes a Bridge
- Why We Keep Looking Outside Ourselves for Stability and Satisfaction
- How Preparing Coffee for Tim’s Special Forces Unit Had an Unexpected Effect
- Worry Steals Processing Capacity
- Turning the Phone Against the Phone
- Sleep Is the Soil
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