“Your breath is the only body rhythm you do both consciously and unconsciously. It is the bridge between your subconscious and conscious mind and body because it controls your nervous system. Every time you take a breath, you respirit, you breathe spirit life force energy back in to you so you can show up from that place right here, right now in the world.” – Steven Jaggers
Wellness + Wisdom Episode 551
Steven Jaggers, Integrative Manual Therapist and Holistic Health Coach, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom podcast episode 551 to uncover how breath connects the conscious and unconscious mind, and how somatic breathwork helps you heal childhood trauma and regulate your nervous system.
How does somatic breathwork help you achieve mental clarity and emotional wellbeing?
In this episode, you will learn why you need to move energy through you, how mouth breathing mimics a trauma response, and why it's important to learn to co-regulate before you learn how to self-regulate.
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- Guided NLP vocal cueing, trauma-release touch techniques & emotional release breathwork
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Listen To Episode 551 As Steven Jaggers Uncovers:
[01:30] Breath: The Bridge Between Subconscious + Conscious Mind
- Somatic Breathwork – Use code “JOSH15” for 15% off the training
- How breathwork helps you re-spirit; to take in spirit and life force energy.
- 545 Ananda | You Were Born To Shine: Access Your Chakra Systems To Live A Thriving Life
- BREATHE | Breath & Wellness: 21 Day Guided Program – 25% with the code “PODCAST25”
- How breath connects your conscious and subconscious mind and body.
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
- Stanislav Grof
- Why Steven is a breathworker first, then bodyworker.
[12:00] Energetic Communication through The Nervous System
- Jordan Peterson
- What it means that there's no perfect body posture.
- Why we're mentally dominant and why we can't bypass the nature of our being.
- Communication as a primary function of the nervous system.
- Why we should learn how to co-regulate before we learn how to self-regulate.
- It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
- Paul Chek: All is God
- Why most of our healing happens in the presence of another person.
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
[27:15] Healing Traumatic Experiences
- Gary Strauss – Life Energy Institute
- How polarity therapy works for healing.
- 538 John Wineland | A New Masculine Paradigm: Leading With Love, Living Your Truth + Healing The World
- Why traumatic experience is a question for you and if you don't answer it, it creates symptoms.
- Steven's journey to healing people.
- The opposite of feeling is numbness and why people crave to feel alive.
- Peter Levine
- How you can reclaim your nervous system sovereignty.
- Your thoughts are happening based on the state of your body.
[53:50] Mouth Breathing VS Nose Breathing
- 290 Dan Brulé: 40 Years of Breath Mastery For Body, Mind, & Soul
- 487 Dumbing Down Dad? Why Media Demonstrates Fathers As Useless | Jon Vroman
- To remember is to put all pieces back together that are already there.
- How bodywork can help you become aware of what's happening in your body.
- Unpacking how mouth breathing mimics a trauma response and how can be used for healing.
- Why we need to move energy through us to escape the trauma response state.
- How breathwork can take you to an altered state of consciousness.
- Joe Dispenza
[01:11:40] Somatic Healing + War on Spirituality
- Why we need to clear on the somatic level first to be able to think clearly.
- How a quick change in the body can be a traumatic experience.
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- Nature changes slowly and so should we instead of putting societal pressure on ourselves.
- 503 Paul Levy | Wetiko: Break Free From Collective Mass Psychosis
- Why the spiritual war feels like scarcity and not being enough.
- Melissa Stangl
- How the society is a web of disconnection.
- War on spirituality is a war on the body because we experience everything through our body.
Power Quotes From The Show
Stress Can Help You Grow
“Stress is the number one killer. It weakens your body to where you can't fight things off. But it's also the number one thing that causes growth. You put barbell plates on you and you're stressing your body to create growth. The same thing that's the number one killer is the number one thing that causes growth. It's all a choice.” – Steven Jaggers
What Is Your Trauma Asking You?
“Something traumatic happens to you, something stressful happens to you, it's a question to you. It's a question to your organism. You can either answer the question or you suppress the question, you don't answer it, you don't look at it. And the question answered is finding a new adaptive pattern and how you grow from this. The question not answered creates symptoms. It gets suppressed, repressed, maybe even to the point that it's a depressed disease of energy flowing through your system.” – Steven Jaggers
Allow Yourself to Feel The Highs And The Lows
“Many people are alive but they're actually not alive. They've cut themselves off from feeling the lows, therefore they've cut themselves off from feeling the highs and they're left in this narrow window of existence which would be a flat line that is a living death.
The world is craving to feel because our somatic sensations are felt sensations. It's how we're born into the world, it's our birthright. It takes more energy from our system to push things down than it does to feel. Numbness is an active process. It takes more energy from your system to maintain a state of numbness. It takes more energy for you to push it down because in your natural state when you're born into the world as a child, you feel everything.” – Steven Jaggers
Links From Today's Show
- Somatic Breathwork – Use code “JOSH15” for 15% off the training
- 545 Ananda | You Were Born To Shine: Access Your Chakra Systems To Live A Thriving Life
- BREATHE | Breath & Wellness: 21 Day Guided Program – 25% with the code “PODCAST25”
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
- Stanislav Grof
- Jordan Peterson
- It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
- Paul Chek: All is God
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
- Gary Strauss – Life Energy Institute
- 538 John Wineland | A New Masculine Paradigm: Leading With Love, Living Your Truth + Healing The World
- Peter Levine
- 290 Dan Brulé: 40 Years of Breath Mastery For Body, Mind, & Soul
- 487 Dumbing Down Dad? Why Media Demonstrates Fathers As Useless | Jon Vroman
- Joe Dispenza
- SaunaSpace – 10% off with code “JOSH10”
- 503 Paul Levy | Wetiko: Break Free From Collective Mass Psychosis
- Melissa Stangl
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About Steven Jaggers
Steven Jaggers
is an Integrative Manual Therapist and Holistic Health Coach with 7 years of experience in a variety of clinical and cultural settings.
He is the Mind-Body Mento Podcast where he interviews masters in Health & Spirituality for modern life. Living and practicing out of Sedona, Arizona, he helps people from all over the world align their minds and bodies through potent movement practices, energetic bodywork, and a deep reconnection to nature.
