#20 From corporate real-estate to breathwork: Combining western and eastern psychology with Richard Blake

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Richard is a breathworker who is about to embark on a PhD in East West psychology to help create the research needed to bring breathwork to the mainstream. In this episode we talk about Richard’s amazing journey from chartered surveyor to men's health model to finding spirituality and purpose.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We talk about the placebo effect and healing yourself with your mind, how Richard just spent a month in Peru at the Ayahuasca Foundation, the breatholution: why breathwork has the potential to be bigger than meditation, achieving your goal and realising it doesn’t make you happy, vulnerable struggles of an eating disorder and suicide attempt, how relationships change as you change, alcohol and society, why he stopped studying traditional psychotherapy and psychic communication.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Discover show notes, Richard´s book recommendation and more on</span> <a href= "http://www.goingconscious.com"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">www.goingconscious.com</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Connect with Richard:</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Instagram @thebreathgeek</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">thebreakthgeek.com</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Connect with Nikki:</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span> <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/nikkitrott/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">@nikkitrott</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></a><a href= "http://www.nikkitrott.com"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">www.nikkitrott.com</span></a></p>