![]() ![]() “I had much better access to my brain and heart, more capacity to think about growing a spiritual mind and my emotional needs and in my heart.” “It made a difference for me,” Gracie says. ![]() Reflecting this importance, Breathe is the title of his new memoir, co-written with Peter Maguire. Limiting his pulse to 60 beats per minute during a grueling fight, he found it gave him greater endurance than his opponent. Similar to the way singers and divers breathe, it results in deeper inhalations and exhalations than the chest breaths most people take. While training in martial arts, Gracie learned to breathe using his diaphragm. What was on his mind was something far more basic and far more important: Breathing. In Rickson Gracie’s many jiu jitsu fights, he tried to avoid thinking about either victory or defeat. ![]()
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