Did you know that you can change your life by changing your breath? What happens in the body when you practice mindful breathing? How can you ALWAYS bring yourself to the present moment?
In this podcast episode, Lisa Lewis speaks about the future of human potential through the breath with Nate Zeleznick.
Meet Nate Zeleznick
Nate Zeleznick is a true pioneer, distinguished as one of only two American master trainers of an ancient royal Indonesian energy and martial arts system. He masterfully integrates this unique next-level practice with modern scientific methodologies and technologies through his creation of the Integrated Ascension Method (I AM) and the White Dove Method.
His groundbreaking work, rooted in over 20 years of teaching globally, is renowned for enabling unparalleled personal development and superhuman breakthroughs, promoting physical, mental, and spiritual growth via revolutionary breathwork, meditation, energy management, and holistic therapies. His businesses have been featured in documentaries on Netflix, GAIA, and Amazon Prime.
Throughout history, both in spiritual and medical practices across different continents and cultures, the breath is considered powerful and crucial.
Sages, monks, healers, and more have been talking about the importance and power of the breath for hundreds of years, across multiple cultures spanning all the continents.
Your breath is powerful not only because it keeps your body alive, but that it is connected with your mind and your overall well-being. By controlling your breath, you connect to the present moment, and therefore to so much more.
A basic yet effective breathwork pattern
Many mantras and prayers throughout history and across different cultures actually rest on the same breath pattern.
This pattern is breathing in through the nose for five and a half seconds, and breathing out through the mouth for five and a half seconds as well, which resets the nervous system in homeostasis and balance.
This breath technique is easy and always accessible to you. When you use it, simply and gently be aware of what is happening in your mind and body.
Whenever you breathe out, imagine breathing out tension, and when you breathe in, imagine breathing in more peace and positivity.
Breath and the body
Intentional, controlled, and appropriately rhythmic breathing brings the body back to the parasympathetic nervous system state, where it feels safe, calm, and able to function well.
When your nervous system is activated and produces stress hormones, it can help you over short periods, but Western society is almost continually stressful and stimulatory, to the extent that our nervous systems are almost constantly activated.
Therefore, taking the time to bring the body to a sense of peace and calm has profoundly positive effects on a person’s physical and mental well-being.
Nate’s advice to listeners
It is difficult to be stressed out if you are truly present, and the fastest way to bring yourself to the present moment is through your breath.
If you are a highly sensitive person and you notice yourself going into “autopilot mode” to protect your energy from external forces, take a moment and a deep breath and ask yourself;
What time is it?
Where am I?
Getting to a point of contented silence and stillness is a powerful remedy for your mind and spirit.
So you’ve been told that you’re “too sensitive” and perhaps you replay situations in your head. Wondering if you said something wrong? You’re like a sponge, taking in every word, reading all situations. Internalizing different energies, but you’re not sure what to do with all of this information. You’re also not the only one asking yourself, “am I ok?” Lisa Lewis is here to tell you, “It’s totally ok to feel this way.”
Join Lisa, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, as she hosts her, Am I Ok? Podcast. With over 20 years of education, training, and life experience, she specializes in helping individuals with issues related to being an empath and a highly sensitive person.
Society, and possibly your own experiences, may have turned your thinking of yourself as being a highly sensitive person into something negative. Yet, in reality, it is something that you can – and should – take ownership of. It’s the sixth sense to fully embrace, which you can harness to make positive changes in your life and in the lives of others.
This may all sound somewhat abstract, but on the Am I Ok? Podcast, Lisa shares practical tips and advice you can easily apply to your own life. Lisa has worked with adults from various backgrounds and different kinds of empaths, and she’s excited to help you better connect with yourself. Are you ready to start your journey?
Podcast Transcription
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Lisa Lewis 00:03:03 Welcome back to the Sensitive and Nature podcast. Today we’re diving into an exciting and transformative topic. The future of human potential with a visionary leader in the field. Nate. Nick Nate. One of only two American master trainers of an ancient Royal Indonesian energy and martial arts system, has spent over two decades pioneering methods that bridge ancient practices with cutting edge technologies. Through his integrated Ascension method, Nate has unlocked powerful ways to achieve unparalleled physical, mental, and spiritual growth by incorporating time and nature, breathwork, meditation, and energy generation, all while utilizing modern technologies to amplify these benefits. Join us as we explore the limitless possibilities of human potential and how you can begin this journey today. Welcome to the show, Nate.
Nate Zeleznick 00:04:05 Thank you so much for having me. And hello to everyone out there listening.
Lisa Lewis 00:04:09 Well thank you. Hello to everybody out there listening to. So I have a question. right off the bat. do you consider yourself a highly sensitive person or not? And so can you share a little story about that?
Nate Zeleznick 00:04:26 Absolutely.
Nate Zeleznick 00:04:27 So my spiritual journey started as since I am a highly sensitive person. When I was five years old, growing up here in northern Utah, as the only non-Mormon child in my grade, I knew right from when I went to kindergarten for the first time that I was different than everyone else, and they let me know it because I didn’t go to their church. And so the bullying started and was relentless from the age of five till about 16 years old. So I’m sitting on the floor of my father’s den with his rifle loaded, pointed at my head, and I was just ready to end it all because the really the torment. I felt so deeply that when the children would abuse me, it hurt more than I think. Probably other people with thicker skin in that situation. And I just had had enough. And so I stopped the action was the action I was going to take, because I could not do that to my mom and dad. And that night, that’s when I had my first out-of-body experience, or my first astral traveling experience, where my consciousness left my body and I got to really understand more.
Nate Zeleznick 00:05:40 At least I had a glimpse that were a lot more than just the physical body. And there’s a lot more than just the physical world where energy or vibration or information or frequency were thought. And so that’s my story as far as how I got started into the realm of spirituality and became a true seeker of what is real.
Lisa Lewis 00:06:04 Wow, that sounds powerful. And I just want to say, I’m so glad you didn’t take that action either. And yes, your parents, I would assume, would miss you very much. And I’m so glad that you’re here on this planet with us. And look what you’ve done with this experience.
Nate Zeleznick 00:06:20 Me too. Me too. And you know, that’s an interesting thing. In the past 25 years with this integrated ascension method, this actually started off by me being so enthralled with spirituality, with energy work, with and of course, Jedi’s, you know, Star Wars and wanting to be a ninja and wanted to be a ninja Jedi like both combined. From the time I was little that I had a secret destiny happened to me that really aligned my life path, and that was seeing a VHS tape from Indonesia with a documentary on martial arts.
Nate Zeleznick 00:06:56 And these people were able to do amazing, amazing things I’ve never seen before. They weren’t breaking boards. They were breaking steel bars, stacks of them. They weren’t just fighting. They were doing things completely blindfolded, like driving cars through traffic or fighting full contact, or military people who could shoot targets even though they weren’t using their eyes. And I was very skeptical. But the next day I had a knock on my door from my fortune. I will say, God knocked and said, hello, here’s your life path. And I watched a blind woman almost die trying to cross the road in front of me. And I knew right then, when I saw that I had to find those Indonesian people on that documentary and bring them here to help her and see if they could help her. And so I went on a mission, and I found them, and I brought them to Utah, and I got to actually see blind people, Eyes white as a sheet. Be able to do anything. And I mean anything that somebody with sight can do and more.
Nate Zeleznick 00:08:02 And they had never trained a Westerner before. It was forbidden at this royal family that created this martial art, energy art, this mental art. They kept it only for Indonesian people until me. So I brought this team over here. They saw what I was willing to do to help them further their cause and to help humanity. And the 11th generation royal family heirs. To this knowledge, they gave me permission to start training and there just happened to be a certified trainer, a former special Forces trainer of this art, actually living in Salt Lake City, an hour south of me. Of all the places in the world that somebody could be, they were an hour away and I started training with them, and a little while later, one of my brothers joined me and together we traveled the world. We went to Indonesia numerous times for long training and testing sabbaticals. We owned one of the largest martial arts and meditation academies in the country. We had the opportunity to work with thousands and thousands of people of all ages.
Nate Zeleznick 00:09:10 We proved to medicine and science that some people can actually see with their mind. I mean, I’m talking neuroscientists, quantum physicists, physicists, medical doctors, and blind people that some people can actually develop a sixth sense through this method. And then Covid came and rearranged the puzzle to say that for the entire industry. And so the reason I mentioned that it’s not a it’s not about me, it’s that I was one millimeter, one millimeter of a trigger pull away from not having any of those experiences, from not helping any of those thousands of people. And I say that because especially for highly sensitive people, I can imagine. And everybody’s obviously on a different scale here. Sometimes you can feel very overwhelmed, even by what other people may not be affected by, can affect you very deeply. And with that said, I want to say that there’s always a beautiful, bright light at the tunnel as long as you keep going. It’s the old adage that you have to walk through hell in order to get to heaven.
Nate Zeleznick 00:10:25 And so many times that is the case, and there’s always someone there, no matter what or no matter where you are, that will listen and that will help. And so I just want to extend that to anybody out there. I’m here. Reach out to me if you’re feeling down or if you’re feeling like you’re overwhelmed. But we have a lot of issues in this. Not just our country, but in society. In general with mental health, depression, anxiety, PTSD. And the thing is that life is so miraculous and beautiful. But when you’re in the dark, it’s hard to see that. And I say that from experience, that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and you are actually that light. And so that’s why I’ve devoted every single part of my life for the past 25 years to helping people actually not just see their own light, but actually step into more of their light, build more light, be able to broadcast, project and shine more light to everyone else around them.
Nate Zeleznick 00:11:28 And truly, it’s being the change that you wish to see in the world like was said by Gandhi. So this is an important mission for me, and I’m just honored to be on this path to help as many people as I can before it’s my time to experience the next stage.
Lisa Lewis 00:11:46 Well, thank you for sharing that personal experience and how you got where you are today. And I’m curious, can you tell us step by step how this process works?
Nate Zeleznick 00:12:00 Well, there are many steps to this process, but I’ll say this it all starts with our breath. Our breath is the most important function in our life, without a doubt. So we come in with an inhale. We go out with an exhale. Every single person is the same in between those times. Of course, we have different experiences, but everybody follows that exact same pattern. And here’s the thing. Throughout all of history, for millennia, sages, monks, ascetics, healers have been talking about the importance and the power of breath.
Nate Zeleznick 00:12:39 We’ve all heard the term chi right or prana. Both of those. Well, chee chee Kong, like the Chinese art of building the energy and the body, one of the translations literally is breathwork. Prana means breath. Pneuma in Greece means breath. We have these different things for a reason because the ancients and these nature. I say, these native societies have understood what we’re just starting to really catch up to now that the breath is the most important thing in our body, and you can go pretty much almost anywhere in the world for three weeks without food, about three days without water. But try going for three minutes without air and see what happens. You’re going to definitely have a different experience of life, and that’s one of the things that we neglect so much that we only really, most people only ever pay attention to their breath when they’re out of it, when they’re out of breath, or if they’re sick, or if they have an asthma attack or, you know, they’re in a place that smells bad, you know, but on a daily basis, we have over 20,000 opportunities to control not just our breath, but our emotions, our thoughts and our energy.
Nate Zeleznick 00:13:57 And it all starts with the breath. So that’s the most important thing that I always encourage everyone to do is ask the question, am I aware of my breath? Am I present? And when we do this, and for everybody, all the sensitive people out there, if you are able to focus on your breath in the midst of the chaos, just notice how much less it affects you, how much better and easier you’re able to weather that storm, and how much more you’re actually able to express and feel. Because if you’re overwhelmed, we tend to shut down. It doesn’t matter what it is, right? We all. If we get overwhelmed, we shut down. And that’s part of the joy of life is experiencing it all. But if we’re shut down, it’s very difficult to do that. So breath is key.
Lisa Lewis 00:14:52 Okay. What would you be able to give us? A demonstration of some breathwork?
Nate Zeleznick 00:14:59 Sure. So this is actually not the typical breathwork that you might hear. If you think of breathwork.
Nate Zeleznick 00:15:06 Most people think of Wim Hof with hyperventilation or Stanislav Grof and breathwork also hyperventilation. This system out of Indonesia is based upon hypoxic breathwork. So breath holding, not breath not over breathing. It’s actually holding your breath out or holding your breath in for long periods of time to raise the carbon dioxide in our body. That helps to have more efficient oxygen exchange through our cells. We have to have carbon dioxide to do that. So what I’ll have everyone do, and I’m not sure I don’t have the ability to play a audio track here. So that’s okay. There is what is known as a perfect breath rhythm for the human nervous system, though, and this has been its interesting many chants and mantras and prayers throughout history in all kinds of different religions and spiritual disciplines actually follow the same thing. So somehow they knew thousands of years ago that this rhythm of inhaling through the nose and exhaling out the mouth for 5.5 seconds in and 5.5 seconds out, moves our nervous system into homeostasis or balance. We’re not interested in digest.
Nate Zeleznick 00:16:23 We’re not in fight or flight. We’re actually in that middle point where everything is actually okay. We’re not expending energy. So all we have to do and make sure everybody out there who’s doing this, make sure you’re not driving while you do this, you can do it. But don’t do this next part, which is close your eyes. Okay? Unless you gotta train with me for a long time before we get into that one. So. all you have to do is put one hand on your stomach, one hand on your chest, and as you inhale, I want you to push your stomach out or not push it out, but to let it extend. And then as it fills and your stomach can’t go out anymore, continue inhaling until your chest rises. Then I want you to fill your lungs up completely. Like, absolutely, completely. And then I’m going to have you breathe out through your mouth, almost like you’re whistling. All the way until you’re empty. Okay, so we’re going to inhale for 5.5 seconds and exhale for 5.5 seconds.
Nate Zeleznick 00:17:24 Okay I hope that makes sense. This is a very powerful, very easy accessible at all times breath technique. The other more complicated ones for building the inner power for developing, say, psychic abilities or higher abilities, I guess you’d call them. I like to call them future human abilities. Not not superhuman, but future human because they are within us. And the ancients knew how to tap into these. We’ve just forgotten. And so it’s time to wake them up that when we do this, I would like you. The most important is to be aware. To be aware of what is happening in your mind, in your body, as you breathe out, every time you breathe out, exhale tension. Every time you breathe in, breathe in the feeling of positivity and energy. Kind of an interesting, interesting fact that when we breathe in, every time we take in a breath, we’re breathing in more oxygen molecules than there are grains of sand in the world. Isn’t that amazing?
Lisa Lewis 00:18:33 That is amazing.
Nate Zeleznick 00:18:34 I mean, we’re in, like, the septillion of molecules that we’re breathing in every single breath. And so this is an important thing for us to remember that no matter how overwhelming life can be. Every breath is truly a miracle, and I wake up every morning and I take a big breath and I’m like, hell yeah, I get another one of these. Awesome. I’m very stoked and excited about every day that I get, because you don’t know if this is going to be your last one or not. So might as well make it legendary. So what we’re going to do now is close your eyes. All right. Now I’m going to have you, first of all, breathe all the way out and begin to breathe in. All the way in and out. All the way. Empty in fully bottom. Filling up to the top. Exhale from the top. Down out your mouth. In. Out. Maybe you can hear this.
Speaker 3 00:19:53 In.
Nate Zeleznick 00:19:58 Out.
Speaker 3 00:20:00 Relaxing or.
Nate Zeleznick 00:20:03 Breathing.
Speaker 3 00:20:04 In.
Nate Zeleznick 00:20:05 In. With positivity, joy, happiness and love. Exhale. Any tension. Stress.
Speaker 3 00:20:14 And fully.
Nate Zeleznick 00:20:18 Expand those.
Speaker 3 00:20:19 Lungs and.
Nate Zeleznick 00:20:21 Exhale from the top down. Empty them totally out.
Speaker 3 00:20:24 Oh, well. In. Out. In.
Nate Zeleznick 00:20:42 Out. Let all.
Speaker 3 00:20:43 Tension and.
Nate Zeleznick 00:20:44 Stress go. In feeling your body energized.
Speaker 3 00:20:53 Out. And. Out. Relaxing for. An. Hour. Focusing only.
Nate Zeleznick 00:21:17 On your breath and.
Speaker 3 00:21:18 Awareness of your breath. In. Out. And. Out.
Nate Zeleznick 00:21:38 Fully.
Speaker 3 00:21:39 All the way. Out.
Nate Zeleznick 00:21:41 Completely. empty in from the bottom. Let it rise up to the top.
Speaker 3 00:21:46 Fully. Inhale.
Nate Zeleznick 00:21:48 Exhale from the top. Down.
Speaker 3 00:21:54 And. Out. Relax. And almost done. Now one more breath. In. And out.
Nate Zeleznick 00:22:25 Very good. Now just notice how your body feels. Notice how you feel in your mind. Notice any thoughts of the day. And just let them float away. So that you are present. Truly here within your skin. The here and now is all there is.
Nate Zeleznick 00:22:47 There is no such thing as an ordinary moment. And no one ever comes again. And we have this opportunity to have a great now on purpose, every moment of our lives.
Lisa Lewis 00:23:02 Thank you. Nate. That was wonderful. Wow. I was doing it with you. And, Yeah, I feel like a clearing in my core, right in my stomach area. And I feel, Yes, the thoughts gone away. Just being here in the present, feeling really safe, secure. And so tell us what. What’s actually happening in the body, in the nervous system.
Nate Zeleznick 00:23:31 Well, the most important thing that we’re doing is we’re attenuating the nervous system to, as I said, homeostasis or balance. So if we’re in a adrenalized situation, which is almost all the time for the western, western people that we’re producing epinephrine and norepinephrine, we’re producing cortisol, the hormones of stress that break our body down. Now, that is very effective. If you’re being chased by a mountain lion, it’s a good idea to have adrenaline so you can hopefully get away.
Nate Zeleznick 00:24:03 Right. And the thing is, though, that we humans have this tendency to ruminate and we have a tendency to hold on to things. We also have the tendency to make stuff up which our body, our body doesn’t know any different. It doesn’t know that we’re not having that experience. And and neuroscience and medicine is very well aware of this fact. And so when we think about something that’s stressful, even if it’s a subconscious rumination, it can have a very strong and negative effect on our body. It can really I mean, you can look on the CDC website, it says right there over 90% of all disease is caused directly by stress. I’ve talked with numerous doctors that have said, nope, it’s 100% because, you know, we’re fighting off billions of pathogens every single day. If we have a immune system that is functional, we’re fighting off billions or tens of billions of pathogens every single day. So if there’s something that comes and gets us that has a direct relationship to a reduction in our immune function, and then there’s also, say, cancer, where the body turns on itself and doesn’t know that’s going on.
Nate Zeleznick 00:25:13 But there’s obviously with the there’s all kinds of medicine. I’m not going to get in too far into that rabbit hole. But the thing is that when we have the hormones of, say, pleasure or of peace, things like vasopressin, oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine, melatonin, these help us to be very calm and very sedate and very present. Now there’s the sympathetic over excitation of the nervous system, right where we’re very highly stimulated. And I think that a lot of people, HSP people are in that state. And I would guarantee all of us are in the Western world. If you look at our adrenal function, we’re all just overclocking our CPU. As far as the adrenal glands are concerned, we’re always in a tense state. Even when we don’t, we’re not aware of it. And so then we also have the parasympathetic nervous system, which is the rest and digest. But here’s the thing. Digestion is the second most energy intensive process in the entire body. If everybody has this experience of eating and then feeling that crash or in that lull, you want to take a nap because so much blood goes to your stomach in order to help digestion? Well, when we rest and we go to sleep, that’s when our body repairs.
Nate Zeleznick 00:26:35 Well, that is a very energy intensive process. And so the purpose, Lisa, of this perfect broth, this five and a half second in and out, is to get us to the point where everything is cool, everything’s chill and calm. We’re not resting and just digesting. We’re not using energy for that. We’re also not stressed out. We’re not using energy for that. We’re getting that point, the crossover point where we are in complete balance. And that’s really the point of that breathwork. Now, other breathwork that I teach that helps us in many other ways as far as immune function, vitality, virility, stamina, explosive power, thought and focus and teamwork and building and feeling the energy of other people around you in a cohesive way, but also energy shielding. And that’s a very important thing. I have a feeling that the people in the HSP community might be more on the empathic side, and susceptible to the energies of other people, or even 5G or the different frequencies that are around us.
Nate Zeleznick 00:27:45 And that is what I really specialize in. One of the things that I specialize in is helping people remain completely sovereign and unfazed by the frequencies and the information that’s around them.
Lisa Lewis 00:27:57 Could you give us a taste of that?
Nate Zeleznick 00:27:59 As a matter of fact, absolutely. I have a free gift for everybody who’s out there. So, yeah, on my website. Everybody can go and get that. It’s, it’s definitely a lifesaver for a lot of people, and I can tell you all about that in a moment.
Lisa Lewis 00:28:15 Okay. Where do you see yourself in your mission in five years, Nate?
Nate Zeleznick 00:28:22 Well, I have recently begun speaking on large stages for thousands of people, broadcast to millions. And so in five years, I see myself continuing that work to help people on a large scale. And also with a, ability to help other people deliver this message as well. That’s a very important thing for me, is you can only do so much as one human. So having a army of peaceful warriors, that are teaching this to help other people.
Nate Zeleznick 00:28:53 You know, this is something that’s, That’s why I started this many, many years ago originally to help people that are not just blind, but their mind to people. There are people who want to expand their mind, and we live in such a great time right now where we’ve never had access to information like this or access to as many sacred ancient traditions as we have now. Not even close. And so, with that in mind, I see myself in five years on massive stages, helping millions of people, helping thousands of people spread this word as well. And really, it really comes down, honestly, Lisa, to the fact that we know that we have poisonous water, Air food frequencies. We have poisonous news, social media. We also have poisonous thoughts. We are bombarded at all times, whether you’re aware of it or not. If you turn on a radio, you’re going to pick up a signal, right? Which means that there are waves going through you right now and the human body, it did not evolve to cope with these things.
Nate Zeleznick 00:30:00 And it is so resilient. It’s just a miracle that we don’t just immediately die. Well, my my goal, my mission is to help humanity not just survive, but thrive in the coming Earth and societal changes. Because they are here. There is no doubt they are here right now. And it’s important that we’re strong enough not just in our body, but in our conviction in our heart, our solidarity, in our energetic connection, and in our ability to perceive beyond just the five senses. Because we have some very difficult times coming for the planet and for humanity. There’s no denying this. It’s right there. So that’s that’s really my goal is to help millions of people in the next five years.
Lisa Lewis 00:30:49 Oh, I hope you do. I really hope you do. Help millions of people in five years and more to come. you know, I think we all need help at some time in our life and that we reach out and get the support, the right type of support that works best for all of us.
Lisa Lewis 00:31:09 So, Nate, what would you like listeners to take away from our conversation today?
Nate Zeleznick 00:31:15 Oh that’s wonderful. So the most important thing is it’s very difficult to be stressed out, either in the future or in the past. If you are truly present. And the fastest way to bring yourself to presence is through your breath. When you said, this is for highly sensitive people. When you feel yourself being, say, triggered or highly sensitive, or you find yourself going kind of maybe onto autopilot. Take a moment and just ask yourself two very important questions as you breathe deeply. The first one is where am I? Now, this is an important question because it doesn’t matter if you’re in Cincinnati, Ohio or Beijing, China. The answer is actually here. Just like that old saying, doesn’t matter where you go, there you are. So ask that question where am I? Ask another question, which is what time is it? So it might be 347 and it might be 540. It doesn’t matter.
Nate Zeleznick 00:32:21 It’s always now. And by asking yourself those two questions, what time is it? Where am I? That helps us remind ourselves that it’s always here. It’s always now. And when we couple that question those questions with our breath, we bring ourselves into this very beautiful, divine present state where we’re actually enjoying second by second, not ruminating about the past and things we can’t fix, or things that happen to us that we cannot do anything about, or sending our energy into the future for things that have not come to pass and may never come to pass. If we’re right here, right now. Just notice what happens with the rest of your life. Family conflict. Breathe. Stress about work. Breathe. That person who cut you off in traffic five years ago. Breathe these things when we do this, and we become very centered. This is the state where monks and yogis, ascetics, they work for decades to get to this point of silence, of stillness. But we have this opportunity, maybe not to do it all the time, without years and decades of practice in a monastery or an ashram.
Nate Zeleznick 00:33:44 But we have this opportunity, Lisa, every second of every day, to take control of our breath. And by taking control of our breath, we take control of our power. Once we take control of our power, we feel empowered to take control of our destiny. There’s not much worse than feeling worthless, helpless, or disempowered or disenfranchised. And so when we just take this minute, where am I? What time is it? Gratitude, I’ve heard it said numerous times, is the highest state of receivership. Gratitude is good. Appreciation is better. The best one you can do and feel is reverence. That every moment is a miracle. And no matter what, even if it’s hard and you’re struggling. How amazing is it that you get an opportunity to have that experience, and you get the opportunity to then change and choose a different experience? Just by what do I want to experience now? So breathe. What time is it? Where am I? Enjoy.
Speaker 4 00:34:51 Oh.
Lisa Lewis 00:34:52 Well, thank you so much.
Lisa Lewis 00:34:54 That was a beautiful message. I really took that to heart. And I hope that reaches all of the listeners and that, you know, the reverberation of that message just goes out into the whole universe to receive it.
Nate Zeleznick 00:35:11 That’s why I’m here. And hopefully my message goes far and wide on this and every other platform.
Lisa Lewis 00:35:17 Yes. Yes, indeed. And so can you tell us more about the free gift for my listeners?
Nate Zeleznick 00:35:25 Without a doubt. So I have on my website, I think everybody out there can remember this because it is very telling about the truth. My website is I am pure dot energy so not.com at the dot energy. I am pure energy. So yes, when people go to impure energy they can get a free gift. For me, this is an energy and mental shielding class, as well as more of the five and a half second perfect breath. So this is something that a lot of people rely on daily in order to go out into the world feeling powerful and sovereign and like they are not at the affect of everybody and everything around them.
Nate Zeleznick 00:36:14 This, more important than anything else, is that we get to experience our life as we’re supposed to experience, which is sovereign, powerful, intelligent, hopefully loving. And it’s so hard to do that when we feel like we’re being bombarded by things around us. And this gift this class helps people in. Like an immediate fashion. And I’m talking. You step out of an elevator and boom! Put up the shield. You know, a lot of people notice that difference right away. And so that’s my gift at I am pure energy. Enjoy, everybody. I’d love to hear from you how you use it in your life and how it serves you, how you feel. And it’s my honor and my pleasure to gift that to you.
Lisa Lewis 00:36:58 Okay. Thank you. Thank you for that gift. And so we know where your website is. Are you on any social media?
Nate Zeleznick 00:37:06 Absolutely. If you anybody looks for integrated ascension method or the I am. But really if you’re going to look social media is integrated ascension method.
Nate Zeleznick 00:37:17 And you know Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, all of them, all of them, all of them. And so you can reach out to me on any of those platforms. And I have all kinds of different online courses, in-person events. I even have free two day webinars. The next one’s coming up in late October. I don’t know when this airs, but I do want them every single month. And this is six hours of direct learning and training with me in. I mean, I’ve had experienced breath workers with decades of experience. They come and they are blown away by what I teach in these two days. So anybody who’s interested in that, you can always look at that on my website as well under the events, you can definitely find that they’re not under events. Excuse me. It’s under the, learning portal. And they’re it’s it’s my gift. It’s another gift for people.
Lisa Lewis 00:38:13 well. Thank you. You’re full of gifts today. I appreciate that. And all of that information will be in the show notes.
Lisa Lewis 00:38:20 Thank you so much, Nate, for coming on the show today. I love your enthusiasm. I love how you are just giving and teaching people really how to be the best, to be their best self, and to show up to be their best selves.
Nate Zeleznick 00:38:35 It’s my pleasure and my honor. I, I didn’t go into my near-death experience and my choice to come back to life. And that being another thing, that’s time for another show. People can find that. Find out more about that. But every time I get a chance to do this, Lisa, it is truly an honor. And it’s the reason why I’m still on the planet is to help people in this way.
Lisa Lewis 00:38:55 Yes. Thank you. And I felt more, I think, more important to hear, how to really serve people and the breathwork and the experience you gave us. So we’ll have to have you back on the show to talk about your near-death experience.
Nate Zeleznick 00:39:08 I would love to. I would love to, and thank you so much.
Nate Zeleznick 00:39:11 And for everybody out there, I hope you have and create a great now and a great day on purpose.
Lisa Lewis 00:39:16 Okay. Thank you for tuning in to this thought provoking conversation with Nate. As we’ve learned, the future of human potential lies in harnessing the timeless power of nature, breathwork, meditation and energy management while embracing modern technologies to multiply these effects, Nate’s insights have shown us the incredible possibilities awaiting those who embark on this journey of self-discovery and growth. If you’re ready to unlock new levels of your own potential, be sure to explore more of Nate’s work. Until next time, continue to nurture your mind, body, and spirit and remember your future potential is limitless. Bye for now. Thank you for joining me on this episode of Sensitive in Nature. I hope you found inspiration and solace in our exploration of the profound connection between highly sensitive people and the natural world. If you enjoy today’s episode, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing it with someone who might find comfort and insight into our discussions.
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