Is there a better way to breathe? Let’s talk about that. ( music playing ) Good Mythical morning. We got so much show coming at you that it’s literally coming out of our ears. Or that might just be ear wax. Either way, today we’ll be seeing if your dogs can learn some new tricks and then we’re playing with toys and deciding if they’re for babies or for pets. But first, we got some breathing to do. Sure, you think you know how to breathe using your nose and your mouth, but what if we told you there’s a better way to breathe? It’s time for… All right, here’s how this is gonna work. We’re gonna be trying out some different breathing techniques. Different! But before we do that, we’re gonna try to create a condition where the specific breathing technique would be helpful and then we’ll see if they are actually helpful. Now, we want to point out that you should check with your doctor before trying any of these breathing techniques for yourself. ( music playing ) Okay, this first exercise is designed for couples who are having trouble connecting, and who better to teach a breathing technique on connecting than a guy all alone with his camera? The male takes the breath in. ( inhales ) Goes all the way down to the lingam or the penis and hold. And you want to squeeze your pelvic floor muscles as well while you’re holding. So you wanna hold for four seconds. So… ( inhales deeply ) – Mm. – And then you want to breathe it out into the other person and achieve intimacy. Yeah, if I had told you that today we were gonna be breathing into each other’s penises… Well, you breathe into your own penis. But eventually it’ll get to your penis. – Okay. – I’m sorry, that’s just the way that it works. Before we can test the intimacy breathing, we’ve got to establish that our relationship is broken, and I actually think I can. I have evidence that– well, you hurt my feelings recently when I was trying to identify which famous celebrity ironed his balls. What you said about me afterward hurt my feelings. Take a look. All I’m saying is sometimes I make indirect eye contact and you could use some ironing, so… ( laughter ) It still resonates in my dreams, man. I don’t know what to do with myself. I can’t iron those things. Okay, well, you know what? You’ve also hurt my feelings. Recently we were playing that “Southern slang you should know” game. You were really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, bad at it. In case you forgot how bad you were at it, take a look. Just say ’em back to me. Knee, grasshopper, shorter. – Stevie: Five, four… – Knee-high… Knee-high grasshopper. …one, time. Knee-high to a grasshopper! Knee-high to– I said “Knee-high grasshopper” a second ago. Now, that was not my fault. Now, see? You really hurt my feelings there. All right, so we’ve got some relational disconnect. – This is good… – Yeah. …because now we have the breathing technique… – Right. – …into our “lingus” that is going to help us get it right. And we have watched the entire video, it’s riveting. You just saw a piece of it. We watched the entire – intimacy breathing technique video. – Mm-hmm. So we can start, and I can breathe into you and you could do whatever you want to with the breath, but you’re supposed to take it into your penis. And then… hold it for four seconds, then send it back to me and I’ll hold it in my penis, okay? Oh… I’m just following directions, man. Man, it was him and a door. It’s more awkward when it’s your friend. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – Okay, you’re breathing out. I’m supposed to breathe in your breath, too. What’d you have for breakfast? – Don’t answer that. – Okay. I’m sure I’ll be able to tell. I’m breathing in first and then get ready to receive, okay? Hold it for four seconds. ( music playing ) ( inhales sharply ) Oop. I’m tightening the pelvic floor. I’m holding, and now I’m giving it back to you. ( exhales slowly ) ( holding breath ) Give it back to me. ( inhales sharply ) ( groans ) Wow. Little awkward. I gotta say… I feel very connected to you right now. Yeah, that recycled air came from deep. You wanna shake my hand? All right, let’s just shake hands and never speak again. – I think that was success. – Yes. – Yeah, let’s never talk about it. – Totally worked. ( music playing ) Okay, this technique is called lion’s breath. It’s designed to improve self-esteem and feelings of empowerment. Let’s watch a clip real quick. ( forceful exhaling ) Okay, pretty simple. You breathe in… and then do that. Just like a lion, just like every lion you’ve ever seen, right? Yeah, but before we can improve our self-esteem, we need someone to completely destroy our self-esteem. ( music playing ) Wipe those stupid looks off your faces. Son, did you hear me? Why’s there so much grey in your hair? Son, you look like someone that shops at an even-less-cool version of Hot Topic. Everybody knows those glasses are fake! Everybody knows you can’t read. – Is that a smile, son? – No. You eyeballing me, son? You look like a real-life version of Groot. “I am Groot. I am Groot.” You kiss your mama without that chin? You know what they say? The taller they are, the dumber they are. I haven’t heard that. You just did. This show’s just a version of Jimmy Fallon’s show for people that don’t have TV. Is he gone? That last one cut pretty deep. Oh, yeah. Whoo. I think the breathing, it helped me– – I got really lightheaded. – Yeah. – I almost fainted. – Yeah, which somehow helps. – ( sighs ) – So maybe it helped a little? Lion’s breath boosting the self-esteem. Yeah, kinda. ( music playing ) This next technique is all about manipulating your honker. Inhale in through right nostril. ( inhales deeply ) Pause, sealing with the thumb, and exhale through left nostril. Right, so you block one side, breathe in through the other side… ( sniffs ) …then block that side and breathe out through the now-open side. – It’s so simple. – Then reverse it. Now, one of the big benefits of using alternate nostril breathing is it can help reduce stress and anxiety. So we need a situation where we can feel stress and anxiety. No. As you can see, we now have our heads in this tank and I have a feeling that something anxiety-inducing is about to happen. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It’s a tarantula-freakin-cha. It’s a… Oh, no, oh. ( both inhaling and exhaling ) Go to Rhett. Go to your right. Oh, crap. Think I can blow her to you. – ( gasps, whimpering ) – Oh, he’s waving at you. He’s waving. ( inhales ) Are you panicking? A little bit. Link is panicking. Link is definitely not happy– No, don’t do that, stop it! What are you doing, you jerk? Go towards Rhett, you hairy monstrosity. ( laughing ) Ah, it’s working! My technique is– My breathing technique’s really working. Oh, crap. Link is sweating a lot. I’m trying to combine techniques, speaking in the third person and breathing in the second nostril. I made myself very lightheaded by trying to spider breathe. Spider breathing is tough. Audrey, why don’t you get it over there on Rhett’s side? No! Oh, no, no, no, no, no. He’s been over here close to me for long enough. Yeah, go over there, get him– – Oh, my gosh. – Audrey: Little squeezes. Oh, my gosh. ( inhales ) It seems upset, it seems upset. You’re such a weird person. I shouldn’t have breathed on you. I’m sorry I breathed on you, I’m sorry I breathed on you. Oh. Yeah, there you go. Look at it, look at him. Look at him. Look at him, Rhett. Try the breathing technique. ( whistling bird calls ) It’s not a bird. – It can eat a bird. – Exactly. ( whistling bird calls ) Keep your breathing going, Rhett. You know, it actually gives you something to do. It takes your mind off of it. – ‘Cause you have to– No! – Oh, oh, there he comes. – Sleepy, huh? – I’m pretty calm now. Shoo him into his beard a little bit. – No, no, no, no. – Right into his beard. – We really gotta test this. – No. I had a snake wrapped around my neck in one of these things. Just inch him over here towards Rhett. You know, just right there next to him. Just a little closer, just a little closer. Yeah, come this way. Breathe, Rhett, breathe. ( inhaling, exhaling ) Keep breathing. Oh! Oh, gosh! That was just Link grabbing… – I grabbed his hand under there. – You jerk, you jerk. Okay, I think it works. Alternate nostril breathing works ’cause I’m still alive. Link thinks it’s awesome. Okay, now that we’ve tried all these breathing techniques, we have to take a breath from doing all this breathing. Up next, we train our dogs to play musical instruments. Ah! Get me out of here. Rhett: How you smell me now? 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