Hey, next session up is with Patrick McKeown, the author of The Oxygen Advantage. So I'm going to add Patrick in now. Say it, Patrick. That's all. How are you? Can you hear me okay? Very, very good. Thank you. The sun is shining finally again and all the better for seeing you. Well, I've just gave a very, very brief intro, but I'll just do it again for anyone that might be seeing you for the first time. I'm coming across stuff. We had such an unbelievable response to the podcast. It's been a number of some of the coaches that we sort of know and connect with as well. I've started reading the book and I keep seeing other people just like pushing it. I went on Amazon last night to buy my dad for his birthday and the one with the blue cover that I've got is sold out. Wow. That's great. Yeah, it's always great to see a book that you spend three years, four years writing that when it gets out there, that it's embraced. It's always, of course, it's super, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Patrick, for people, this is Patrick McKeown. He wrote his author of The Oxygen Advantage, something that I've been reading about for quite some time. You guys were reading about the podcast. Obviously, for the podcast live event, we had to have him live. And the idea with the podcast live event is to give us the opportunity to rather than just the audible experience of listening to a podcast is to actually like see what's going on, to actually interact, ask your questions. So put those in the comments and it allows us to actually do some of the things we're talking about rather than just describing them. So that's where I'd like to try and go with some of the stuff today. For those that haven't or aren't sure about what, you know, The Oxygen Advantage is the title of a book. Obviously, it's about the idea of oxygen. We're thinking about breath, but it is we've been coiling a hashtag nasal gang for quite a few people. And I think of you as like the CEO or the guru of nasal gang. In simple terms, just my first question to set the tone for people is like, why is why is nasal breathing important and trying to go initial just to start with like super for you. Like, like you go into lots of great detail in the book. I recommend anyone reading it. Even there's a part where you suggest like all the exercises are later and you can go to those if you want, but recommend you understanding the science behind it because that gets you to understand what you're doing better. I almost totally understand. We've done that with some of our programs for gone. The juicy stuff is up here, but the understanding at the beginning we recommend you read that. And some people skip that bit and you're missing out on all of the good stuff. Like from me just to help people what resonated with me was I was on a it was actually Richie Norton recommended your book to me. He was just on last with me when I was asking him about only decent books to read. Like, I'm intrigued about I'm questioning, am I breathing correctly? Can I breathe better? Is that an area of my life that I could maximize or improve? And so I was on that bit of a journey that he recommended the Oxford Advantage and the two things that jumped out that me or what resonated with me so much in those early chapters and why you've got my buy-in straight away was two things. One was this notion of getting away from the fight-or-flight response. And that's one element of my understanding of why nose is important. And then the other is getting away from this upper chest breathing. Richie made a very good point earlier where he said, some people just aren't even aware. If you ask them, where's your breather? And I've done it to people since.   And other people go more than those. But then a lot of people are like, I don't know. And I was one of those. It was like, where do I breathe from? And then you start just that part of the process of going, asking yourself that question and throughout the day trying to understand where you're breathing from is a, for me, was like the powerful starting point of it. But there were two things that resonated with me. I'll show up now and just let in a nutshell why, set the tone of why nasal breathing is so important. Well, it's quite simple. The mouth performs zero functions in terms of breathing. If you look at the nasal cavity, I'm not sure how this is going to appear. Better than where we did the interview. But if you look at the mouth itself here, there is absolutely no function in the mouth here, which is regulating breathing volume, which is moistening it, warming it. The mouth does absolutely nothing for breathing. It's all in the nose. And despite that, I actually find it amazing that this hasn't received so much attention over the years, but the science is starting to catch up with it. There are a few professors, more so in the United States, who are getting behind it. And in a nutshell, Jaco, it's really about if you breathe through your nose, it is tougher at the beginning, but after six to eight weeks, it gets easier because the air hunger reduces. But when you look at the benefits of nasal breathing, you have a 10% increased pressure of oxygen in the blood. You've got increased carbon dioxide. It reduces ventilation. You've got less trauma to the airways. The nose is directly connected with the lower regions of the lungs to diaphragm. Diaphragmatic breathing is absolutely essential for the generation of intraabdominal pressure for stabilization of the spine for functional movement. Functional movement is essential for athletes that don't want to run the risk of injury. So nasal breathing is where it's at. The mouth is directly connected with the upper chest. Mouth breathing is fast breathing. It's shallow breathing. And just even if we were to look, and I'm not sure again because I can't see a camera for myself, but if you see here, typically with human beings because of gravity, the greatest concentration of blood is in the lower lobes of the lungs. And when we are mouth breathing, we are ventilating the upper regions. But when we breathe through the nose, we carry the air deeper throughout the lungs, but also we harness nasal nitric oxide, which redistributes the blood throughout the lungs. Nasal breathers, much less likely to have exercise-induced bronchoconstriction. Also, in terms of COVID, it's really, really topical. And only one article has come out that was published in The Science last week. If you go into a gym or if you go into a dance class and you have a group of individuals who are mouth-breathing, hard breathing, fast breathing, they are emitting a lot of water vapor into the atmosphere. So you have individuals who may be infected emitting a lot of water vapor, and then you've other individuals who are mouth-breathing, and they have literally no defense from an airborne point of view.  But if you breathe in through your nose and out through the mouth, there is a 42% greater water loss by mouth-breathing. And that's even just looking at physical exercise. You know, I think there's so many misconceptions out there about breathing. People don't realize the impact of it. It's not just about taking the full, big breath. It's nothing but to do with that. And let's look at what we can do with sleep. Let's look at what we can do with focus concentration. And let's look at what we do when we do breath-tolling to drive the body into an anaerobic stage, to increase carbon dioxide, to disturb the blood-acid-base balance, to force the body to make adaptations to improve the buckling capacity. So with breathing, there is functional breathing, and that's our everyday breathing patterns. And I'll give you an example. I work with professional athletes. And last week, no, this week, this week I had a professional MMA fighter. A young star woman. And gassing out too soon. This proportion of breathlessness during physical exercise. And also before she would get into the ring, she doesn't know whether she's going to gas out or not. And that creates anxiety. So it's really a vicious circle. And then when I talked to her, my breathing during sleep tired all the time. And this individual has reached a professional, really high level in the sport. And her bold score was seven seconds. Now imagine the potential with that individual. Number one is we get her sleep right. Number two is we get her functional breathing right. Number three is we get her to do breath-tolling to make adaptations. And I think there are, I'm just going to say it very quickly. I never think if you take a big breath that it brings more oxygen to the tissues. Big breathing. You often hear take a deep breath. Take a big breath. Big breathing will not increase the blood oxygen saturation. It won't drive up how fully loaded your hemoglobin is with oxygen. And during normal breathing, your SPO2 or the saturation of your arterial blood with oxygen is typically about 95 to 99%. If you breathe harder, you don't increase that. And if you do increase it, it might be by one or two percentage points. But the issue with breathing hard is you get rid of too much carbon dioxide from the blood through the lungs. And carbon dioxide is not just to waste gas. Back in 1904, Danish physiologist Christian Bohr discovered that the pressure of carbon dioxide in the blood is what influences the affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen. In other words, it's not just to have oxygen in the blood. We need to get the oxygen out of the blood to the working muscles. They're driven by increased temperature of the muscle and increased carbon dioxide. As carbon dioxide increases, blood pH drops and the affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen reduces. Our red blood cells release oxygen more readily to the tissues in the presence of carbon dioxide. Yeah.  That was one of the, that was like the other, when that was the other big thing that really jumped out at me. And I want to just unpick something. You've just covered like so much good stuff there. I just want to unpick a little bit of that because there are, you know, there was one, there was a question from Mont Saladin. Are we talking about breathing in and out through the nose? Like, so some people are watching and we're at that point where we don't, we're not even, we're asking a question of, so the answer is yes, we're talking about in and out through the nose, as our normal everyday breathing. The example of the MMA fighter was the, was the same as me. I was a, I used to play professional rugby. I had a post even finishing rugby. My 5K time was 20, like just 20 minutes. I was fit and yet my bolt score was probably similar. It was under 10 seconds. It was, it was abysmal. And by changing to some nasal breathing, just not even initially, just like being a bit more aware as I was talking about and actually trying to just do it a little bit more and noticing, am I just out of breath? And even just this realization of, we'll do the bolt score with people. This, I couldn't handle, my body couldn't handle not, or couldn't handle this buildup of carbon dioxide. And when I read the bit about the importance of carbon dioxide, it's not just a waste gas. That was a real light bulb moment for me. Because I've read the science from you to help me understand it. And then I felt it. I could feel when I held my breath for more than five seconds, I was like, let's, I've got to get, I need to start breathing again. And it was almost like panic kicking because I couldn't handle being that far out with that tiny amount of time without breathing. And you go, you've said, I've heard you said this a number of times where, well, nothing magical is going to happen when you then go and start exercising. You're going to be able to deal with all this exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide better if you can't do it well at rest. I want to just unpick that a little bit for people and give people the chance to have a go effectively. And I think I thought it would be interesting to ask initially for people in the, if you've got any specific questions as we go along, just ask them in the comments as you have been doing. And we'll answer those as we go through. Also, just give us some feedback.  Just your normal everyday breathing.  Or third option is, I actually, I haven't ever thought about it. There's almost the three types, there are the sort of three answers generally when we're asking ourselves how are we breathing? So let us know in the comments. How are you breathing during sleep? Do you wake up at a dry mouth in the morning? Yeah, we'll get on to taking our mouth at night, but I thought we won't go too hard on people too early doors. So body boot camp is a more through the mouth. So just starting to get that awareness. Splunky woosh mostly mouth. So people are generally breathing, so generally breathe through a nose. So people being aware, I'm sure there'll be a ton of people listening that are also not aware, but we're going to brighten that awareness now. And I thought it would be good to do, just explain what that bolt score is, because someone's asking already, explain what that bolt score is. You've already talked about the need for carbon dioxide to allow for more oxygen, because it's true that we want oxygen, we need oxygen for the muscles to help with the fuel for muscles to work. But what the understanding of the science is that without any carbon dioxide presence, that exchange is not as effective as it could be, or it's necessary to happen. And therefore our ability to deal with carbon dioxide buildup is a good marker of our level of cardiovascular fitness and efficiency of breathing. Yeah. Bolt score is breath hold time. And breath hold time is a measurement of dyspnea or breathlessness. Since 1975, because what determines how hard and fast you breathe during physical exercise is influenced by your sensitivity to the gas carbon dioxide. Yeah. And if you were overly sensitive to the buildup of CO2 in the blood, your breathing is harder and fast. We don't. The primary stimulus to breathe is not oxygen. It's only when we go up into altitude that our oxygen in the blood drops by about half, the oxygen drive our breathing. The primary stimulus to breathe is carbon dioxide. And how sensitive we are to that gas will determine how hard we breathe during physical exercise. Yeah. So athletes who are breathing have a habit of everyday breathing if their breathing is up or chest and just that little bit faster. And it's not that they are having a panic attack. It's not that they are having an asthma attack. But it's just that their everyday breathing is a little bit faster, a little bit harder, up in the upper chest. And that everyday breathing translates into dysfunctional breathing during physical exercise. Which just based on that, there are some stuff, because a lot of people are doing some of the stuff in calisthenics like handstands and things that require good overhead mobility, that if we're very dominant from breathing from our upper chest like all day, every day, that has an impact on our rib cage, that has an impact on our thoracic mobility. So extension, which is important for overhead rotation, has an effect on our, around the first rib that can be really restricted for the shoulder. There's a whole host of things that go into it, not just from a cardiovascular point of view, as well, which I think that was one of the, to be honest, that was one of the things that I was interested in, because I knew about the potential effect of poor upper chest breathing on shoulder mechanics. And that was one of my drivers to try and understand a little bit more about it. So I think whether, it doesn't matter whether someone's interested in both, or someone's interested in more on the cardiovascular side of things, I mean, my 5K time went from just below 20 minutes to 19, 16 in the course of about five weeks. So it has that massive effect. But then also, you're going to do some stuff that's going to help to actually loosen up, potentially some stuff around your neck, particularly your thoracic spine and your overhead, and your shoulder mobility as well. You're going to get those things as a benefit as well. Well, it's not just about respiration. It's also about functional movement. And individuals with lower back pain tend to have dysfunctional breathing patterns. You can imagine, it translates the whole way through, the body, right? Yeah, and we need to die from that stabilization. And with diaphragmatic breathing, is having a normal exhalation where the diaphragm moves back up to its resting position. Because it's when the diaphragm, when we have a normal exhalation, then we can have a normal inhalation. And when the diaphragm moves back up to its resting position, this increases the zone of opposition, which is the distance from the height of the diaphragm down to the lower ribs. And this, in turn, then, is increasing intramdominal pressure. But coming back to it, like, in terms of the science, Professor Kiesel published a paper in 2018 and looking at 51 subjects, healthy subjects, and only five of those, 10% of them, had normal breathing patterns. And, you know, this is very common in the population, but it's more common in some subgroups than others. So a copper in review said it was about 9.5% of the population. But with asthma, in other papers, it's about 30%. But with people with anxiety and panic disorder, it's about 80%. And the other thing is, I've only started going down the route of female breathing is significantly different than male breathing, especially for younger women who are having the monthly cycle. And we're talking about the luteal phase where hyperventilation kicks in and hyperventilation is a natural reaction to the change of hormones progesterone. This, in turn, is increasing breathing. This is lowering carbon dioxide in the blood by up to 25%. This is increasing pain, increasing anxiety, increasing fatigue. Now, most studies on breathing don't differentiate between male and female breathing. I is a breathing instructor for 18 years because I'm a typical man. I overlooked female breathing. And the more I go down this, considering that 50% of my students over the years were females and yet we weren't reflecting the change in performance of a female during just times of monthly cycle. So hormones do influence breathing. And we have to bear in mind that if we are in a habit of over-breathing, yes, it does influence activity of the mind. You cannot have a calmness and stillness of the mind. You cannot be in dissolve so readily. You don't have a good night's sleep.  But we have to bear in mind that with breathing, the degree of breathlessness consumes oxygen. As we sit here now, about 2% to 3% of our oxygen consumption is going to support the breathing muscles. If we go for a walk, fast walk, it's about 5%, 6%. If we go for more intense exercise, it's about 10%. If we do maximum physical exercise, it's 15%. But if we have chronic hyperventilation, that our breathing is in excess of our normal metabolic requirements, the VO2, the oxygen consumption going to support breathing muscles is as high as 30%. There is a cost associated with breathing hard. And this is good in terms of when you first switch from mouth to nose breathing, of course there is an air hunger and there's a degree of suffocation. And the reason being is because the nose exerts a resistance to your breathing 2 to 3 times that of the mouth. Nose breathing is slowing down breathing and with that, with a slowing down of the breath and a reduction to breathing volume, carbon dioxide increases in the blood and carbon dioxide is the stimulus to breathe.  But if you continue doing all of your physical exercise with the mouth closed, the body is forced to make adaptations to tolerate carbon dioxide. Now that translates into reduced breathlessness and only one study would you believe. I find it amazing that professors of exercise science have missed this when you look at physiology. How are they missing the elephant in the room? And I talk about that because even the professional athletes that I work with, not just of course professional athletes, five-year-old kids right up to people in their 70s and 80s. But how on earth are we missing breathing? That we are looking at nutrition, we're looking at psychology, strength and conditioning. And yet the athletes who maybe have a tendency towards anxiety and panic, a genetic predisposition towards hard and faster breathing, anybody with any sort of sensitivity towards exercise induced bronchial constriction.  Because that's going to hold back progress. And if I look at George Dallam's paper, he looked at, he spent 10 years, sorry, he spent two years trying to recruit athletes. And he's a professor of exercise sports in the United States. He did a study. He says, I'm going to have athletes breathe through their nose for six months only during physical exercise. And I'm going to measure, how do they perform after six months? When they switched from out to nose breathing, when they were tested at six months, they had 22% less ventilation, nasal breathing versus mouth breathing. The fraction of expired oxygen was less, nasal breathing versus mouth breathing. In other words, they weren't bringing in oxygen, that oxygen during a round trip blown back out that oxygen so much. With nasal breathing, your body utilizes oxygen better. With nasal breathing, your recovery post-physical exercise is better. It hasn't been studied.  And they don't have the same lactic acid buildup. They don't have the same, you know, in terms of that recovery that's needed, that they fit, they feel very well in physical exercise. Yeah. Coming back to your question, the bold score, Kiesel looked at 51 subjects, and he looked at breathing from a biochemical point of view, a bio-mechanical point of view, and a psychophysiological point of view. He concluded that the easiest way to screen for breathing pattern disorders in the general population and athlete population was breadth whole time. Now, he didn't call it bold score, but it's exactly bold score. You see the description. I'll explain what it is. Yeah, explain it, and then we'll do one together and see how we get out.  And when you let go, your breathing should be relatively normal. So it's not the length of time of a maximum breadth hold, but it's the length of time that you can hold your breath for comfortably. Yeah.  You're finishing. Kind of it like that, yeah. Because if you hold your breath for as long as you can, it's influenced by willpower and determination. Yeah. That first inclination to want to breathe, you might feel, what do you describe some of those respiratory muscles just like kicking in? When you stop breathing, at some point the brain is going to react to the fact that you stop breathing. And the brain reacts by sending a message to the diaphragm and to the intercostals. So the diaphragm breathing muscle, you can have involuntary movements of the diaphragm breathing muscle as a result of it, or you might notice it in the throat. Is it the barring receptors in the brain? In terms of the respiratory centre, it's located in the most primitive part of the brain because of course we've been breathing since day dot. And in the medulla itself, there are central chemo receptors which are monitoring primarily carbon dioxide and blood pH. And that's why carbon dioxide is the primary drive to breathe. And then there are peripheral chemo receptors located at the angle of the jaw. They're monitoring carbon dioxide and oxygen to a lesser extent. So they are the secondary regulations of breathing.  Can we try, can we can we get people to... I have no time or nothing, so people, I'll do the description so... Thank you. You give the description when I pinch by those I'm going to hit the time and the people join in with us. Okay.  My PB is 30, I've been a good a good lesson has been it's the same as anything that we train your respiratory muscles, the new mechanics of it, if you don't like if I stop doing pull ups I get worse, I'm not going to get it I'm not going to still be good at them it's the same thing I've worked really hard to get myself up to 30 and then I've just slackened off a little bit and you notice the difference Yeah, but also I don't always think it's good to measure both score live because psychologically it will influence the both score however, like if you look at Kiesel's study he said that 25 seconds if you're above 25 seconds there is an 89% chance that dysfunctional breathing is not present 25 is a good marker to get up 25 is a good mark people put in if anyone's done it there in time let us know what you actually managed to get interested to see how people did so Jack Oden, in order to improve both score it's essential to start off breathing through the nose but about 30% of your listeners are going to have nasal obstruction now you can decongest your nose holding the breath I love this one by the way the difference this makes is unbelievable because as you said when you and I've had this someone a friend of ours they tried to they've managed to probably run about 10 meters just through the nose and that was it so when you're as you described now sorry, as you described at the beginning if when you try to breathe in someone's asking when running should you breathe through your nose and out through your mouth and actually from the techniques that you're talking about about resetting those effects with receptors so that you can breathe your normal everyday breathing in the background we're trying to encourage it to be in and out through the nose and when you first try and do that exercising or even if you just first try to do and we'll get onto it the breathe light to breathe right and stuff that you do that can be difficult but certainly when you try to running and we have to apply the principle like anything we're going to change like progressive overload you cannot go all out and suddenly you might have to progressively like build up slowly you might have to start running very slowly to be able to build up to doing it and it will feel your nose might feel completely blocked at the moment but just stream with a snot and it literally didn't feel like I could get in I'd end up breathing so hard through my nose that it would like like I would close on itself but it it changes I feel like now and I'm still my box score is anywhere between low 20s to mid 20s on a normal day but I feel like now I can pretty much do any exercise just in and out through my nose but I did not feel like that when and it's been a while and you do have to work at it like anything but it massively changes and at the start feeling congested is a problem and like not literally you don't feel like you can get the you just like it doesn't feel like you can do it you're like I can't get the air in and out through my nose fast enough it's just it's blocked and so this can't take people through I'll show you the exercise but I'm just going to make a quick comment your ability to nasal breathe during physical exercise is going to influence is going to be influenced by two things one is your boat score as your boat score increases minute ventilation reduces so people who are breathing hard like for example if I see somebody and they're walking and they're breathing hard during their walking or gassing out an athlete if I see their breathing during rest is typically faster, upper chest no natural pauses following exhalation and their boat score could be ranging anything from 6-7 seconds up to about 16-70 in seconds that individual gasses out too soon and I know a threatened condition coaches might say it's due to poor condition it's not, we have the fittest individuals who are training professionally and yet it's their everyday breathing that's holding them back they are mouth breathing during the day they are fast up or chest breathing during the day, their mouth to open during sleep now the second thing which determines your ability to do physical exercise which your mouth closes the size of your nose so if you have a compromised nose like mine, you probably need to get a nasal dilator so for example if you do this, put one finger here and one finger here and if you just gently press the nostrils it's called the Cottle Maneuver and it helps open up the nose and that will also help to prevent nasal valve collapse so we're currently designing a nasal dilator for sports to help open it up so the nose unblocking exercise and the reason I think it's really important because I was a chronic mouth reader for 20 years I was highly strong my sleep was always impacted and I used to be exhausted and then going into school and trying to get grades exhausted you can decongest your nose in five minutes holding your breath don't do this exercise if you're pregnant don't do this exercise if you have any serious medical conditions but let's give it a go do you want to give it a go? so can I have you stand up? yeah are we walking? I'm going to have you walk into the spot okay so if you take a normal breath in whenever you're ready yeah but first of all you can block one nostril and breathe through it and then block the other nostril and breathe through it so you get an idea of how open and closed the nose is to decongest the nose take a normal breath in through your nose a normal breath out through your nose pinch your nose, hold your nose start walking holding the breath now go into a jog go into a jog holding the nose and keep going holding your breath keep going, keep pushing until a pretty strong air hunger let go so maybe the first couple will do easy let go there and breathe in through your nose let go there typically if you hold your breath for more than 30 seconds your nose opens up how does it happen? ear nose and throat doctors are not exactly sure I gave to 150 ENTs in Madrid in 2019 I was in Madrid it was in conference room I had them all do it and then I started seeing them looking at each other they weren't aware of holding up the breath but it also increases blood flow to the brain so let's do it again I want to do the first couple easy and then I push it take a normal breath in through your nose and normal breath out through your nose pinch your nose, hold your nose start walking start jogging hold your breath, keep going keep going so let go of that one there so we do the first two easy because I think it's always kind of better see I've got more than that punch I've got a lot more than that so the next few we're going to do more stronger I think it's always better to do the first two a little bit easier so this exercise is about up-regulation we do slow breathing to down-regulation but this one here is about up-regulation so it's not just going to open up your nose I'll talk about what it's doing so let's go again the difference, the bolt score is just when you then it's not a maximal hold at all whereas this one we are looking to push it on the bolt score I put the inclination to breathe whereas this one we're actually looking to make an adaptation but there is a correlation if you see that perhaps there if the bolt score so this now is the maximum breathlessness test that I'm having you do a slight variation of it and if your bolt score is 20 seconds your maximum breathlessness test is 40 to 60 paces that you're able to hold your nose so what I'd like you to do try this with us people try it of course take a normal breath in through your nose a normal breath out through your nose pinch your nose, hold your nose start walking but count your paces count the paces now walk faster now go into a jog and jog faster and keep relaxing into the body you will feel involuntary contractions of your breathing muscles keep going keep pushing keep going keep relaxing into the body when the air hunger gets pretty strong let go but then minimize your breathing for six breaths at the end so when the air hunger gets strong let go breathe in through your nose and minimal breathing for six breaths get your breathing under control now that exercise will open up your nose even if you have a head cold now with a head cold the bolt score drops and the nose after a head cold the nose can get congested again you literally feel the difference of the air being able to come in and out of the nose it's phenomenal like I've used that exercise with at least seven and a half eight thousand people and I've been able to get them breathing through the nose without surgery without nasal steroids without antihistamines if you have a stuffy nose you don't just have a stuffy nose your sleep is impacted and your exercise performance is impacted yeah to do the nose you have to do that exercise about five or six times but there's more stuff happening when you do that breath hold your lower airways are also woken up so people with asthma it will greatly help anybody with asthma or exercise induced bronchial constriction you will continue to have exercise induced bronchial constriction until the bolt score is 25 seconds or the maximum breathlessness test to 60 paces and you know when we have athletes doing a warm up say they're doing a warm up for 15 to 20 minutes I have them do slow breathing with lateral expansion and contraction of the diaphragm to help with anxiety and to bring a stillness to the mind to improve focus but then they are too relaxed then I have them do two easy breath holds during the warm up and five strong breath holds and then I have them do a couple of bigger breaths to get rid of the carbon dioxide if they're too acidic exactly then we down-regulate them first to calm the mind and then we up-regulate them breath holding is an up-regulation and with that also during training you are dropping your blood oxygen saturation that you are achieving generally severe hypoxia and high carbon dioxide to disturb the blood acid based balance to improve the buffering capacity probably inside the muscle compartment to delay lactic acid and fatigue and repeated sprintability in rugby this was tested about two years ago a paper by Wurrons looking at 21 professional rugby union players in Australia they divided them into two groups 11 individuals in one group 10 in the other four weeks of practice so for four weeks one group did high intensity interval training with normal breathing and the other group did 40 meter sprints with breath holding they measured repeated sprintability after four weeks the group were doing high intensity interval training they had no improvements in repeated sprintability before exhaustion the group who were doing breath holding during the 40 meter sprints their repeated sprintability increased from 9.1 to 14.9 before exhaustion so in other words they could do 14.9 reps of 40 meter sprints with a 30 seconds with a departure every 30 seconds before exhaustion now these are elite professional well trained rugby union players during competitive season to get a gain in repeated sprintability which is a measurement of performance in sports to get that gain the reason being is because breathing has been totally overlooked in sports performance because there is misinformation out there it kind of had bad connotations in terms of it was seen to be the domain of the guys tree huggers or the guys going around with the open sandal brigade you know and it was kind of this airy-fairy thing one of the things that's so good about what you've done is because the option of advantage it's sort of it isn't necessarily when you read the book it's not just about sports performance and for improving your sport but you get in the buy-in from that area of people and I'm seeing it grow out more and more there's a number of questions Skater kid said the book is amazing it's changed my life and there's no question but I just thought that's the time thing that you need to be hearing because that is the impact having on people and after his nose when running we covered and explained that same for someone else there's not many people getting over 25 on their Boltz score which that was the level that you were saying as a marker to get to there was a number of people we mentioned taping through taping the mouth at night Craig Riles saying the mouth taping is a game changer at night there was a number of people the podcast collective mouth taping at night thankfully I met Patrick at these five years ago it's still a bit far behind my goal but the Boltz score is working on the Boltz score so Paul Anchovies Dave Fosterer is there any physiological difference between basic breath hold and for example the nose and blocking exercise no the nose and blocking exercise that we do is we always do breath holds after an exhalation a normal exhalation and the reason being is if you breathe in and hold your breath there is more stress in the lungs but also you're unlikely to drop your blood oxygen saturation so like people do high intensity interval training to stimulate anaerobic glycolysis but the only issue with it is it's traumatic and it can increase the risk of injury if overdone when you do high intensity interval training your blood oxygen saturation will drop down to about 93 91% you're barely hypoxic even during what you were doing there if we measured blood oxygen saturation during that time you're likely to go into severe hypoxia about 85% so we're able to achieve a much greater degree of anaerobic glycolysis to force the body to make those adaptations but you can do it during jogging no trauma you are putting a load onto the breathing muscles and nasal breathing helps to maintain diaphragmatic strength and the one thing about diaphragmatic strength is that if the breathing muscles fatigue blood is stolen from the legs to feed the diaphragm that breathing is one of those absolutely vital functions and if breathing is not up to power other functions of the body will be sacrificed I mentioned to you before about the feeling that when you do some of those maximal breath holds when walking when you do go to your limit you feel that your legs go a bit sort of the thing that you mentioned about diaphragmatic breathing at the start you showed the diagram of trying to fill the lungs from lower down and the fact that diaphragmatic breathing deep breathing as in that sense of it rather than just taking a big breath being a difference and the nasal breathing stimulates more does that have the right word more breathing into the so nasal breathing more diaphragmatic breathing which helps you fill up the lungs more as opposed to the shallow breathing that comes from the chest breathing if you look down if you look down at your chest and take a breath through your mouth when you breathe through the mouth you'll typically see that the movement is tend to be upper chest breathing and upper chest breathing is totally inefficient and totally uneconomical and the reason being is because mouth breathing and fast breathing there's so much more air wasted in dead space that the air that you're taking into the body isn't getting down into the small air sacs in the lungs now what I would like to qualify is that when we think about functional breathing everyday breathing I look at it in terms of three different dimensions one is the biochemistry and it's very common for people who have poor breathing patterns to have cold hands and the reason being is because it's not just that the affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen is stronger when we breathe too hard but also when we breathe that little bit faster than what we should be breathing our blood vessels constrict so we have 70,000 miles of blood vessels throughout the body and if we are breathing faster and harder our blood vessels are constricting and that's why cold hands and cold feet and brain fog is often common so the first dimension of breathing is when we have people put one hand in their chest one hand just above their navel and I have them tune into their breathing and I have them really slow down the speed of the air as they take it in and out of their nose to the point of an air hunger we get them to deliberately underbreed for a period of time the benefits of that is that when you underbreed carbon dioxide increases in the blood the body is very sensitive to an increase of CO2 you feel air hunger but even though you feel air hunger your blood vessels start opening up you start to feel internally an increased temperature and also it's a great way to activate the body's parasympathetic response you will notice increased water is sliving them out in about three to four minutes I'm often amazed by individuals who have anxiety, they have panic disorder and even individuals with depression very few people is talking about changing the respiratory physiology to improve blood flow to the brain and to improve the functioning of the autonomic nervous system in terms of the biggest nerve improving heart rate variability improving respiratory sinus arrhythmia and also Jaco sleep is overlooked you can't have quality sleep unless you breathe through your nose and your nose and lower breathing, diaphragmatic breathing come together and just when you mentioned parasympathetic those of us that are trying to maximize recovery I talked before about that upper chest breathing feeling like stuck in that fight or flight mode that actually when we're trying to rest and digest and when we're trying to recover the breath being a great way to stimulate that part of the process and using the breath to slow down and down regulate so important Dr. Sally Bell is actually going to be she's a functional health doctor she's going to be on to the next guest she's been watching and she said she's seen great results in her clinic practice with asthma patients and the patients with mental health issues and she's now going to say it's fascinating about the female health so she's going to stop looking into that so you're inspiring Doctor, I'll have a new book and I've just written 120,000 words and I've no idea where it's going to stop but the female there's 14,000 words devoted for female breathing so apologies from me as a man to the female population how on earth did we miss that one but in any event trying to catch up but you're doing exactly Steven, Torino, Patrick you are my hero love your book and research been taping the mouth for over a year I'm just going to have a look at the final last few minutes I'm just going to look at some of these questions so if you just maybe it's the last thing that we cover being that nasal because you've covered there like the breathe the light to breathe, right I only covered one dimension so we're talking about air hunger which is biochemistry but then we go into cadence breathing with lateral expansion and contraction of the lower ribs lateral contraction and expansion of the lower ribs is to target the biomechanics and then we change the cadence to 5 and 6 breaths per minute because it's the optimal cadence of the breath to practice to influence the autonomic nervous system so bodily systems disturbed by stress in order to improve and stimulate the vagus nerve and to stimulate the bioreceptors to increase heart rate variability and heart rate variability is a measure of vagal tone to get a balance between the parasympathetic and sympathetic so with functional breathing when I'm working with somebody now I don't just look at the biochemistry but I'm also looking at the biomechanics and the cadence and here's the thing Jacko for 16 years I was stuck looking just at the biochemistry the yoga instructor is looking mainly at the biomechanics but they're not looking at the biochemistry they're not looking at cadence and the heart rate variability instructor is looking at cadence breathing nothing about the biomechanics and nothing about the biochemistry the thing is we have to look at all three dimensions and we also have to consider our breathing during sleep now I want to show you this this is our own idea I don't know if I showed it to you the last time I'm not trying to plug it around but taping of the mouth is really really important anybody who wakes up at a dry mouth in the morning they are not likely to have that deep and refreshing sleep that we all need and one of the slides that I use in my book is this isn't the book that's out there but this is the book for our instructors if you see this the relationship between the emotions sleep and breathing if our breathing is off our sleep is off sleep quality is reduced if sleep quality is reduced we're not going to have a calm mind but if we have an agitated mind we cannot sleep well because we can't switch off and if we have poor sleep it can impact our breathing and if we are stressed it impacts our breathing and if our breathing is impacted it causes and contributes to stress so the taping you could get 3M 1 inch micro port tape with a local chemist and it'll work better for beards but this one here I developed this originally for children because I needed children like I see in one of the comments there the dentists are asking about children they're not the doctors have got greater increased risk of palatosis gum disease dental cavities dry mouth saliva is a protective agent within the mouth and if we have the mouth open our mouth is dry we are more dehydrated so this tape is more suitable for people who would be anxious about wearing the tape it's stretchable we stretch it by 30% and it's the elastic tension of the tape which brings the lips together it encourages it to be closed but you can't open so you're not going to panic at night I just went straight gaffer tape I'm the type of guy if I'm doing it I'm doing it I saw questions when I pulled the gaffer tape out as we got in bed I started taping in 1998 it totally changed my life it was one of those things I was waking up feeling exhausted I was snoring I had obstructive sleep apnea asthma, nasal congestion you don't just have asthma within your population at least 10% of the people listening to us here they have problems with their lungs and they don't just have problems with their lungs they're tired sleep is also impacted by asthma there's a number of questions we're going to end up getting cut off it doesn't let us go longer than an hour but there are some questions Patrick's book is called The Oxygen Advantage you can get it on Amazon The Oxygen Advantage is his Instagram page I've put the link in there the tape that you've just shown is the tape that you've developed so you can buy that from your it's called Myo Tape because it was mainly developed for dentistry and orthodontics what's the website? it's MyoTape MyoTape.com I'm not sure if we have it on Oxygen Advantage it's only a new product we're just putting it out there MyoTape.com MyoTape MyoTape.com thank you so much for being part of today we couldn't have had our favourite guests without having you on thank you so much for taking the time even just seeing the comments from people that are like you've changed their life anything that congratulations to the amazing work that you're doing to keep spreading the message, it feels like it's getting out there into the sport and fitness world which is great and then it's a great opportunity that that will then start to filter out into the general population because this is something that's so simple for everyone to do even if your take a message from this is your first experience of it just ask yourself that question throughout the day where am I breathing from my nose or some of my mouth do I notice the difference that when it's mouth it's here and when it's nose it's lower down from my diaphragm just start that process and if you then you're intrigued and want to know more by the Oxford Advantage book it's like nine quid or something on Amazon it's absolutely it's a no-brainer and read all of it, don't skip to the exercises because the science and the understanding of the beginning is so so important and definitely worth the read it's one of the fastest books I've ever read because it's just easy to read and I'm not good at reading I've got to see it in English at school so yeah thank you so much because this is how the awareness spreads for us and it's tremendous to see it getting out there so thanks a lot for that Chaco super pleasure, thank you very much Dave Foresters, I'm off to read the book again good lad thank you so much for coming on I'm sure we will be in contact again very soon but if anyone's got any questions head over to Oxford Advantage and you can obviously get the book, get the tape ask Patrick any questions on his Instagram there take care, thanks bye


فشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيمي الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وأشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل وأشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله وإتعالى ننتقل إلى مسألة مهمة ونذهب now to a very important matter We spoke about last lesson ترحيد الألوهية and we spoke that the first of we mentioned the importance of ترحيد الألوهية and then what we did was we mentioned what ترحيد الألوهية stands on we said it stands on two things the first thing it stands on is معنى الإله what does إله mean and which is لا إله إلا الله what does it mean and the perception to be correct لأن الحكم على شيء ونفرع عن تصوره for you to place a ruling on something first of we have to have correct perception of it then we said the second thing it stands on it was what وإفراد الله بالعبادة it's a single Allah in what? in عبادة and we dealt with that in our last lesson إن شاء الله تعالى we're now going to speak about what is it that will nullify our ترحيد الألوهية may Allah protect us from this what is it that which can nullify our ترحيد الألوهية as you can see on the board what's written on the top is نواقظ ترحيد الألوهية and that means the nullifiers and I said two things that are what can nullify it the first one is شرق الأكبر and the second one is شرق الأصغر and we'll speak about each and every one of them إن شاء الله تعالى شرق الأكبر is the first one we're going to start with شرق الأصغر we're going to first, inshallah, divide the people's إيمان into three أهل السنة والجماعة if you read books of إيمان like كتاب الإيمان by ابن منده رحمه الله تعظيم قدر الصلاح written by محمد نصر المروزي by ابن تيمي he has two he has كتاب الأوسط which is the شرح في حديثة جيبريل if you read the book written by أبو عبيد قاسم من السلام he has a book of كتاب الإيمان where he speaks about it الله المستعان على ما تصفون ابن منده I mentioned his كتاب الإيمان if you read the books of عقيد the books كتاب أصول إعتقاد إهل السنة والجماعة written by أبو قاسم مهبت الله إلا لكائي الحجة في بيان المحجر written by أبو قاسم تيمي كتب عقائد شرح السنة أصول السنة بوكس if you read them they all speak about what إيمان means and the definition of إيمان and what it stands on وراء أعيس أركان وراء أعيس أصول what is it that أهل السنة unanimously agree upon and etc and what are the groups that go against أهل السنة in the issue of إيمان شرك الأصغر is an issue that's related to إيمان when it's spoken about كفر شرك are always spoken about وراء أهل السنة don't forget mentioning it شرك الأصغر أكبر شرك الأكبر what it does is that it damages and it directly affects it directly affects the person's the person's توحيد أصل التوحيد أما أصل الإيمان so if a person comes with شرك الأكبر the asal of your إيمان will go now what does أصل الإيمان mean the iman is of these three components and all those books are referenced you'll find them in it the asal of the إيمان is the foundation if you don't have this you have no إيمان anymore you've left the religion it's like the human heart if it's your heart you're dead you're not going to live the asal of the إيمان is like that if it gets attacked you are gone شرك what it does is that it directly attacks the asal of the إيمان and so the person leaves the religion of Islam like that يخرج صاحبه عن الملا the person leaves the religion كماله الواجب the person doesn't leave the religion but what happens he's on a very very very serious situation right now we're scared for you we fear disbelief for you يخشى الله we're scared for you and that is like losing a body of heart can you die from it yes can you live from it yes it's like losing a body part it's not like your heart if you lose your arm you can still live but you are deficient and the كمال الواجب the كمال الواجب is that which your إيمان is is defected it is in a critical situation basically كمال المستحب is what is like losing your hair if you become bold you have no hair are you going to die no are you in a critical situation no but you lose your beauty right and that is what it takes away from you كمال المستحب لذلك these three as I said you find it in the books of Ahli Sunnah I mentioned and it's also taken directly from the statement of the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام حديث حديث the حديث in which ألمان ملبي حقيب because of it he wrote a book about it حديث شعب الإيمان the Prophet ﷺ said الإيمان بضع وسبعون شعبة أعلاها قول لا إله إلا الله لا إله إلا الله is the أصل الإيمان is the foundation of your إيمان then the Prophet ﷺ وإماطط الأدع عن الطريق which is كمال المستحب taking harm of the earth as كمال المستحب if you don't do that you're missing out from the كمال المستحب and then the كمال الراجب is what والحياء من الإيمان and shyness is of the إيمان it's from the كمال الراجب it's from the كمال الراجب so Ahli Sunnah categorized into the three they took it from the حديث of the Prophet ﷺ now I explained what شرك الأكبر means it means or it is sorry anything that attacks أصل الإيمان and شرك أصغر is anything that attacks كمال الراجب and we'll talk about that إن شاء الله تعالى سون بإذن إلهي الكريم now but what is the definition what is the actual definition of شرك الأكبر what's the actual definition for it the definition is something that the messenger ﷺ defined our messenger defined it so then there's no need for anyone to come and to what to define it what did the messenger ﷺ define شرك الأكبر as based on the حليث سكدسو إلى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the messenger was asked اي جنب أعظم was the greatest sin was that greatest sin and the messenger responded by saying أنتج على لله ميداً ووخلقك أنتج على لله ميداً ووخلقك it is to associate partners with Allah when he created you it is to associate partners with Allah تبارك وتعالى when he is the one who created you pay attention here anyone who associates partners with Allah he has fallen into what شرك الأكبر or that is what شرك الأكبر is so the definition is the first point that we are at brothers pay attention here and I want you to focus don't lose your focus here the first one is أنتج على is to make لله ميداً ووخلقك باستنحة الصحيحين that the prophet ﷺ said it is to associate partners with Allah is to make something equal to Allah now we are going to now move on to the second point which is give us an example give us an example of associating partners with Allah so the second point here is what does it mean an example of associate partners with Allah this is where it is very important to understand because examples they clarify things for you things that have ambiguity on it it is unclear to you you don't know what it means the minute إن شاء الله وتعالى we place we give an example it will become crystal clear for you إن شاء الله وتعالى associating partners with Allah it occurs from one of two ways I want you to know this إن شاء الله وتعالى two things the first one is دعاء عبادة and the second one is دعاء مسألة دعاء عبادة or دعاء مسألة what do they both mean these are the example إن شاء الله وتعالى let me explain it for you دعاء عبادة is every act of worship every act of worship and we already know what a worship is إن شاء الله وتعالى إن شاء الله وتعالى من الأقوال والأعمال الظاهرة والباطنة it is everything which Allah is pleased with it is everything which Allah تبارك وتعالى loves whether that be an action which is external or internal or whether it's a speech it doesn't matter we spoke about that before but you know what عبادة means دعاء عبادة it means because they both came together what it means is that every single worship that a person does is a دعاء عبادة for instance when I now pray صلاح this praying that I am doing it's عبادة but it's a دعاء how is it an عبادة and how is it a دعاء because why are you praying for my beloved brother and sister the reason why you went and you prayed دهر or فجر and then دهر and then عصر and then مغرب and then عشاد is because you're asking الله for جنة and you're seeking refuge from the Hellfire that's why you're doing that so every act of عبادة is a دعاء you're actually asking through your action for Allah تبارك وتعالى to take you to Jannah and through your action you're seeking refuge from the Hellfire that's why it's called دعاء عبادة the same as fasting why are you fasting for why are you going through this hardship of depriving yourself from food and drinking is because you want جنة through your action you're asking from Allah or Allah I want جنة by fasting or Allah تبارك وتعالى protect me from the Hellfire even your actions in and within itself this act of worship is a what you're asking through it جنة and you're seeking refuge from the Hellfire from it so that's why it's called دعاء عبادة can I divert any of those acts for anybody other than Allah can I pray to Allah other than Allah nope that's a shirk can I fast for anybody other than Allah nope that's a shirk can I for example for anybody other than Allah nope that's a shirk can I make an oath for anybody other than Allah nope that's a shirk and then those are all دعاء عبادة if you divert that for anybody other than if you give it to anybody other than Allah if you divert it from Allah and you give it to anybody other than Allah you are falling into what شرك الأكبر so the first example we're on this point right and we see that to example of it the first example was دعاء عبادة is that crystal clear with everybody does that make sense now we're going to swiftly move on to the second point إن شاء الله تعالى the second one is دعاء مسألة what does that mean what does دعاء مسألة actually mean دعاء مسألة it actually means and تسألة that you ask وتطلوب or you request شيء and something you actually are asking for it you are now actually are asking for it pay attention now this is of two types دعاء مسألة and دعاء عبادة it's of two types the first one was دعاء عبادة my beloved brothers and sisters did you see can you divert it for anybody other than Allah are you are you allowed to divert دعاء عبادة for anybody other than Allah is there any exceptions there's no exception all of دعاء عبادة you can't divert it for anybody for anybody other than الله تعالى as for دعاء مسألة there is permissibility and there is something that is not permissible so the first one is that which is جائز permissible and there is second which is غير جائز oh so it's not all prohibited no they are not all prohibited let's go into it now دعاء مسألة is the one that is permissible not all of them are shirk some of them are allowed to be دعاء عبادة for anybody other than Allah and there are those which are not allowed to be دعاء عبادة for anybody other than Allah the one that's allowed to be دعاء عبادة for anybody other than Allah there are conditions that it has to meet the first condition is what you have to ask of somebody who is what حي alive second حي حاغر it has to be present and the third one is what he has to be what he has to be قادر has to be able to do it for you for example for example somebody is dead and I'll go to the grave and I say to them give me this is what this is shirk أكبر it falls under the one that's shirk أكبر غير جائز it's not permissible inshallah we'll bring evidence and everything for it don't worry it's what it's shirk the Quran referred to this as what because Allah He told us لا يسمعوا دعاءهم these dead that you call it they can't hear your dua ولو سمعوا ماستجابوا لكم ويوم القيامة يكفورون بشرككم ولا ينبئواك ولا ينبئواك مثل خبير they can't hear your supplication they're dead gone they can't hear you in the sharia the dead can't hear and they can't and they can't help you ولو سمعوا ماستجابوا لكم even if they do here they can't ويوم القيامة يكفورون بشرككم ولا ينبئواك مثل خبير حي حتى بيا life are you with me brothers I'm not going off topic I don't want to go to details is do the dead here what's the issue of it what about the Hadith of عمر رضي الله عنه are you there of بئرو قوليبا when the professor went to the battle of bedar and he said to the people of the that's it we can have another time it's another issue this is مقدمة introduction yeah there's a book I would tell students to go to it's called في عدم السماع الأموات عند الحنيفية سادات written by محمد امير الصناعاني شخص الباني رحمه الله he has a a a a footnote on it go to that book go to that book and read it insha'Allah and the book written by محمد امير الصناعاني are you there brothers so the dead you can't ask how little the person has to be with you you're not allowed to ask anybody who's not with you I'm down here right now in London I'm not communicating with anybody I'm not calling anybody right now here I ask a brother can you get me this cup of water and he's not with me this is what the reason why these are by the way why are they what's the reason the reason pay attention stop writing insha'Allah stop writing the high I said is what is when he's alive right why is it that if you ask him it becomes because you believe he has you believe he runs this universe you're giving him ability that's not his you're saying he has you can do things is like you're saying he's hearing is all and that's only Allah's ability who can hear everything if he's not with you how does he hear this statement of yours Allah is the one who hears everything سبحانه وتعالى قد سمع الله Allah hears this his ability you've given that attribute to the creation last but not least which summarizes it all is that he's able to do it he's alive he's with you but you ask him for some things he can't do you say brother I want children brother can you send rain for us this is what this is what it is called شرك أكبر the one that's the one that's غير جائز is the opposite of that right which is what if he's not alive if he's not present with you or if he's not able to do so it's the opposite of that Allah سبحانه وتعالى he said in the Quran talking to us diverting this عبادة for anybody for other than Allah Allah clearly states this in the Quran so let's look at verses Allah says ولا تدعو من دون الله ما لا ينفعك ولا يضرك فإن فعلت فإنك إذا من الظالمين الله says what he commands the سبحانه وتعالى ولا تدعو do not supplicate do not ask of من دون الله بسيز الله ما لا ينفعك ولا يضرك فإن فعلت if you choose to do that فإنك إذا من الظالمين you are from the ظالمين this ظالمين here is because sometimes ظلم comes as minor and sometimes it comes as major this one means by the disbelievers it's the same one as الذين آمنوا ولم يلبسوا إيمانهم بظلم it's the same it means disbelief وصول الله تبارك وتعالى he says ومن يدعو من دون الله anybody who calls onto ومن يدعو anybody who calls onto مع الله إلها آخر لا برحان له به فإنما حسابه على فإنما حسابه عند ربي إنه لا يفلح إنه لا يفلح الكافيرون الله says anybody who calls onto who supplicates with الله تبارك وتعالى asks with الله تبارك وتعالى that which he has no evidence for he's always allowed you to do this what's going to happen to you فإنما حسابه عند ربي your punishment is with your Lord الله إنه لا يفلح الكافيرون the disbelievers are never going to find prosperity وصول الله تبارك وتعالى أن هذا آية ومن أظلوا من يدعو من دون الله من لا يستجيب له إلى يوم القيامة وهم عند عائهم غافلون وهم لا يفلح إثبارك وتعالى he says وإذا حشر الناس أعداء وكانوا بعبادته كافيرون these are verses that are clear to show that you can't supplicate to anybody other than Allah because الله is saying here ومن أظلوا who is more misguided ومن أظلوا من يدعو من دون الله من لا يستجيب له the one who can't hear him من لا يستجيب له the one that cannot hear him إلى يوم القيامة وهم and those وإذا حُشِر الناس وكالوا لهم أعداء and those you are asking if you get resurrected with them the day of judgment they are going to disbelieve in you you're going to be like no I've got nothing to do with you why were you asking before leave me alone that's what they will say to you the day of judgment so you're not allowed to divert it for anybody other than الله تبارك وتعالى الله also says to us ويعبدون من دون الله they worship besides Allah ما لا يضرهم ولا ينفعهم they worship that which will not benefit them no harm them الله also say سبحانه وتعالى قل أتنبئون أقول أتنبئون الله بما لا يعلموا في السماوات ولا في ولا في الارض سبحانه وتعالى عما يُشيكون now some people come up to you today and they'll say to you you know what listen yeah I actually don't believe I actually do not believe the the the person the man in the grave that I'm asking I don't believe he has any تصرفات I don't believe he runs anything no no no I don't you know why I'm asking him is because I'm a sinner I'm a wrong doer I'm a criminal I've gone against الله's commands I've disobeyed him many times I can't go to Allah directly no not at all just like a secretary has to get you through to the president you can't just run into the president's office is disrespectful so الله is the same can't go to him directly will say that مقالة that statement of yours والله is بنصها is that word for what that which the disbeliever says what did he say معنى عبدهم إلا ليقربونا إلى الله يزلفة we are not worshipping these are not worshipping them only except for one reason إلا ليقربونا إلى الله يزلفة so they can get as close to Allah they can get as close to Allah their response was what we are not worshipping the idols and wherever we worshipping the trees the sun the moon so those were worshipping those were worshipping the angels some of them worshipped angels they said that we were only worshipping wherever we worshipping for what reason يقربونا إلى الله يزلفة so they can get as close to Allah so this مقالة this statement is the مقالة and the statement of the تشابهات قلوبهم قد بينا لكم الآيات the statements have now become similar to the statement of what the disbelievers so once it should be very scared and cautious now somebody will come up to you and say are you right why what's the problem with me the problem is Allah permitted Allah permitted for us to do استغاثة استغاثة what's the difference استغاثة just means requesting asking but in the times of hardship it's just asking and requesting but it's the times of hardship does that make sense it's just when you're through going through distress and it's problems they'll say to you الله said in the قرآن about نبي الله موسى عليه السلام what did he do فاستغاثة so نبي الله موسى here what does he do موسى عليه السلام helps one man from over the other man does that make sense so they say فاستغاثة is what's being used in this verse the man asked موسى عليه السلام for help and موسى was out there and he helped him so استغاثة is permissible we'll say you use this example for something which you're not doing موسى was what حي حاظر and he asked for بما يقدر عليه that which he was able to do and that proves our point that's the kind of استغاثة and that's the kind of دعا مسألة that's permissible that the person you're calling to has to be alive he has to be there and he has to be what able to do it when you look at the قرآن you won't find anything other than that never will you find in the قرآن where استغاثة or دعا is being done to somebody who is not حي حاظر and بما يقدر عليه you will never find that and if anybody does please bring it forward to us anytime استغاثة or دعا or I said it's been used in a context where the person was present and he was so let's stick to the قرآن and guess what the قرآن refer to anything other than حي حاظر and بما يقدر عليه did he not? he did الله تبارك وتعالى he referred to it as شركة I just mentioned the ayah before ومن ما يدعو ومن أظل من ما يدعو من دون الله من لا يستجيب له إلى يوم القيامة وهم عندوا عائم غافرون وإذا حشر الناس وكانوا لهم عداء وكانوا بعبادتهم كافرون so we mentioned that very good that's crystal clear and the next one is غير جائزين which is the opposite to that which I mentioned so we now have the مثيلة don't we have the example now also what falls under this that I just wanted to mention as a very important point even though that falls under دعا عبادة and I mentioned it in there already which is the issue of slaughtering you see some people they slaughter for other than الله تبارك وتعالى now I want you to research this issue in a place where you can find it إن شاء الله وتعالى which is the issue of a guest is coming over to me a guest is coming over to me and I slaughter for them to give them food is that shirk is that shirk is that shirk I guess comes to my house and I make food for them and the reason why I cut this I slice this I slaughter this animal it's for my guest شغب العثيمين إن شرح ثلاثة الأصول شغب العثيمين إن شرح ثلاثة الأصول he speaks about it there رحمه الله رحمه تد واسعة but the difference is this you're doing it for the guest is not تقروبا you're not getting closer and you're not expecting enough غيبي from them you're not expecting an unseen benefit from them كريستوكلي the one you're getting closer to is who تقروبا إلى الله you're getting closer to Allah you're doing for this person for what to get closer to Allah تبارك وتعالى but if you slaughter تقروبا you know you do it تقروبا and you're expecting an unseen benefit from this person then it becomes what شرح أخبر this is important because Allah clearly says in the Quran فصل ليلي ربكة وانحر pray to your Lord and slaughter for him and also Allah تبارك وتعالى he says قل إن صلاتي ونسوكي ومحياية ومماتي لله رب العالمينة لا شريكة لن لا شريكة لن قل إن صلاتي ونسوكي my slaughtering ومحياية وماتي لله رب العالمينة قل إن صلاتي ونسوكي ونسوكي ونسوكي it's important that you read the Quran the Quran is crystal clear on these issues crystal clear we're now going to move on to the third point which is what causes it, a spell what are the fundamental causes of شرح أخبر why does it occur and how does it come into place it's very important that we take this on board because knowing the reasons that cause it is what allows you to stay away from it the first of it is what and it was the first reason why it was done and it's still the common reason why people do it today and it is it is going extreme on the righteous people the person who goes overboard with the righteous people and that was the first reason why the church took place on this earth وقالوا why were these 5 righteous men as Abdullah ibn Abbas mentioned in صحيح البخاري these 5 men were righteous men the people were extreme on them overboard with them are you with me so it is go extreme on the righteous people عبد الرحمن يحيى المعلمي إنه كتاب التنكيل بما فيه تقنيب الكوثري من الأباطيل عبد الرحمن يحيى المعلمي he's a great noble scholar from Yemen who resided in Makkah and he used to stay in مكتبتي الحرم he used to stay there مشالله he has works that are profound and fun especially this issue of عبادة العبودية كتابه رفو الاشتباه عن معنى العبادة والإله he speaks about the reality of عبادة عبادة عبادة والله يطالب عمش الفيديو that's amazing he also has another book written on حقيقة البدعة and he also has a refutation on who محمد زاهد الكوثري والهلك he has a refutation on him كوثري went and he spoke about a book written by خطيب البغدادي and he went extreme on Abu Hanifa because of Abu Hanifa love for Abu Hanifa passion for Abu Hanifa and no doubt Imam Abu Hanifa is Imam Imam no doubt about that and no one has put his level down لا شكة ولا ريب does that make sense but محمد زاهد الكوثري is love for Abu Hanifa as he says what did he do to him it made him insult Anas Ibn Malik Malik Ibn Anas شافعي 300 not 1, not 2, not 3 300 صالحين إما تسالف أصحاب رسول الله he destroyed them and insulted them and belittled them just so he can protect Abu Hanifa رحمه الله رحمة وزعا and if Abu Hanifa was alive he would never accept that from him because that's not the طريقة of Imam Abu Hanifa رحمه الله رحمة وزعا may Allah bestow his never ending mercy on to him now pay attention here الإمام عبد الحماية came years later and he refuted محمد زاهد الكوثري on this book of his he refuted him and when he refuted him عبد الحماية المعلمي he says وَإِنَّ مِنْ أَوْسَعِنْ أَوْدِيَةِ الْبَاطِلَةِ and he's mentioned in this point which is going extreme on the righteous people he said from one of the greatest valleys that people become destroyed and problems come is going extreme on the righteous people are you there brothers I beg you all I beg you all and I've read on you before right I have go to the Kitab أصاري ملمونكي في الردع على السبك by ابن عبدالهادي go to the book أصاري ملمونكي في الردع على السبك by ابن عبدالهادي please do this ابن عبدالهادي he talks about the issue of تعريم and the reality of it صحيح I read a statement on you some people say I'm honoring this person I am respecting them صح because I'm not in the Quran وَتُعَزِرُهُ وَتُوَقِرُهُ وَتُسبِّحُ بُقْرَةً وَأَصِيلًا وَتُوَقِرُهُ تَوْقِرُ النَّبِسَ I'm honoring the messenger I'm respecting the messenger we will say you've misunderstood the reality of respecting and honoring the prophet honoring the prophet does not involve taking him out of his position giving him the rights of Allah that's not to respecting the prophet does that make sense the prophet didn't like that he said don't go extreme on me as the Christians when I'm overboard with God they say don't go راضا الله تباركوا تعالى ودريسين القرآن يا أهل الكتاب لا تغلو في دينكم ولا تقولوا على الله غير الحق الله تباركوا تعالى يسل قد كفر الذين قالوا إن الله ثالث ثلاثة وما من إله إلا إلا إله واحد وإلا من ينتم عما يقولون لا يمسن لا يمسن الذين كفروا منهم عذابٌ أليم الله يا أهل الكتاب لا تغلو في دينكم لا تغلو في دينكم لا تابعك على قرآن لا تذهب على قرآن لا تفعل على قرآن عبدالهدر الحماء الله إنك كتاب أصاري من منكي فرد على السكي أخبرت عن الموضوع حقيقة تعظيم تفعيل خلاث تساعد خلاث متطلع بالقرآن لا تتعنى خلاث ونفتح من عبودي ونفتح أنه يساعد ونفتح ونفتح ونفتح ونفتح القولية of الله. Their rights is to place them where Allah places them. But the A'isha رضي الله تعالى عنها say we were commanded أن ننزل الناس منازله. We were commanded to place the people in their placing positions. Respecting a person means that you place them in their rightful position. You don't take them overboard and you don't take them below their rights. So you know the statement of Al-Bursiri. وإن من جودك الدنيا والضراتة ومن علومك علم اللوح والقلمي. This is extreme in the price of the Prophet. عليه الصلاة و السلام. And that's exactly as I said. وقالوا لا تدرن آله هتكم ولا تدرن ودن ولا سواعن ولا يغوثا ويعوقا ونصلا. Those were people who are saliheen. As Abdullah ibn Abbas he said. أسماء رجال صالحين. That's what the names of righteous men in Qominooh. When the people died they worship them. أصول الله تعالى He tells us the second thing. The second thing is It is honoring the graves of the righteous people. Another issue is too. The graves of the righteous people. The building and the construction of the graves. أحكام بناء القبور. This needs to be this. And insha'Allah تعالى I promise. I promise insha'Allah تعالى I'm going to be A lecture on the issue of The construction and how they should be built. It's something we need to know. Because the issue of the grave Is being taken as a The issue of the grave has become a Has become a path and a way إلى وقع في الشركة أكبر. They use this grave as a watch By placing a suraj and other things on it And then building it and constructing it. So insha'Allah تعالى we will بإذن الله الكريم سي. Because the Prophet of five days before he died What did he say?  And the Prophet was scared. عليه الصلاة والسلام عائشة said that he will do the same thing to his grave. So he was warning against it. عليه الصلاة والسلام. And then And Was the early stages Also from those things that enter there Was what? The issue of تصاوير Pictures and stuff like that. Pictures making and drawing and whatnot. All of them Was a دريعة إلى الشركة الأكبر. We spoke about the espab right? Those two are not the only espab. They are not the only espab. There are many more. There are many more other espab That cause The occurrence and the happening of الشركة الأكبر. But those are The two most prominent. Now insha'Allah We're going to move on to the fourth Thing that we need to know about الشركة الأكبر Which is احكامه its rulings. What is the ruling Or the judgment The ruling on the person What happens to the person who comes with شركة الأكبر basically? What is it that happens to him? That person Is in hellfire forever Is in hellfire Because his friend Is in hellfire So he never comes out of it He never comes out of it God Almighty In the Qur'an Those who disbelieve From the people of the Book And the partners In hellfire They stay in hellfire forever They stay in hellfire forever They stay in hellfire forever They go to stay in the hellfire أولاكهم شر البرية So God Almighty says إن الذين كفروا من أهل الكتاب والمشركين في نار جهنمة أولاكهم شر البرية They are the worst of people The worst of people Because the word شر as we all know It is what على سيغة أفعل And the Hamza was dropped for what? بكثرة اتكرار صح So they are the worst of people And it's from the اسم التفضيل Very good The person is in hellfire forever And also the second thing is That صاحبه لا يدخل الجنة That the person will never enter جنة whatsoever And he is in hellfire forever Are you with me brothers? And remember when I say إِسَبْنُ مَرْيَمْ سَدْتُ His people would say إنهم يُشريك بالله If you associate partners with Allah فقد حرم الله علي الجنة Allah has made Jannah حرام from you ومأواهن نار And the hellfire is your final abode وما للظالمين من أمصار And there is no one to help you There is nobody to help you والله that's very scary And the hellfire is your final abode وما للظالمين من أمصار And there is no one to help you There is nobody to help you والله that's very scary And you love the ummah Are you very concerned about the people?  Learn an evil No do it but learn it Understand it شرك is an evil Learn this evil so you can stay away from it لذلك this statement came from none other than the noble companion كان الناس يسألون رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عني الخير وكنت أسألوه عن الشر مخافة أن يودركني I used to ask about the evil And they would ask him for good I would go and I would ask him about the evil So I could stay away from it Also I didn't fall into it So my beloved brothers and sisters Stay away from شرك الأكبر And you will not be able to stay away from it Unless you what Unless you understand it Brothers If something cannot be done An obligatory act cannot be done Unless you do something else Then that something else becomes obligatory for you to do Does that make sense? وضوء is not obligatory Do I have to do وضوء right now? No, I've got the choice for you But if the salah comes in, does it become obligatory? And I don't have وضوء Do I have to do وضوء now? Why? Because of the salah is obligatory And you can't do the salah unless you are upon A state of the heart so it becomes obligatory now For you to stay away from شرك And to come with توحيد is obligatory Yes Can you stay away from توحيد Sorry, can you stay away from شرك And come with توحيد unless you know it You can't unless you know it right You have to know it And then knowing it, it is what فرضوعين on everybody Every single body has to know توحيد and understand it And every single body needs to know شرك In order to stay away from it We've now concluded and we finished إن شاء الله و تعالى The second, the first part Which is شرك الأكبر We have an understanding of it now حمد لله رب العالم Praise this to Allah And now we're going to move on to شرك الأسغر We're going to now move on to شرك الأسغر My beloved brothers and sisters We've now finished الحمد لله Praise this to Allah و تعالى We spoke about شرك الأكبر We defined it We gave an example for it We even mentioned the things That caused it for it to happen And we also gave the consequences For the individual who comes with شرك الأكبر May Allah protect us from it اللهم يا رب May Allah protect us from it And protect our loved ones from it الشرك الأسغر now We're going to move on to شرك الأسغر We're going to define it We're going to give an example for it And we're also going to mention The rulings of the one And the consequences of the one Who comes with it The reason why we're not going to mention The reason is because it's the same The أسباب is both the same They have the both They both have the same Root causes for it Okay The root causes are what? The same But these are the three that are different So insha'Allah تعالى We'll mention those three The first insha'Allah تعالى Is تعريفه What's the definition? So what's the definition of شرك الأسغر The definition of a شرك الأسغر is Whatever Right And I want you to understand this Whatever these two things Are present in it Is شرك الأسغر أكبر So شرك الأسغر Two things Has to be found in it In order for it to be شرك الأسغر For it to be شرك الأسغر And the definition of it Is The first one is ما سماه الشارع شركن The first one is ما سماه الشارع ما سماه ما سماه الشارع شركن Whatever The shari'a refers to as شرك Or anything like it Like كفر Or Anything like that That's it, no And also Because if we stick stop there Then it could also be what أكبر Because the shari'a refers to the major one as شرك right? It can't just be that The shari'a has to refer to it as a what And also it has to be what أن يكون وسيلة إلى أشرك أن يكون وسيلة إلى الشرك الأكبر Pay attention here now These are the two things that it has to be The first one is ما سماه الشارع الشركن أو معنى The shari'a has to refer to it as شرك Such as من حليفة بغير الله فقد أشرك Anybody Other than الله is what فقد أشرك That person has what He has done shirk Right? But we also know That الحلف بغير الله Is a what Is a وسيلة إلى الشرك الأكبر It's a means To a shرك الأكبر Does that make sense? It's a وسيلة Are you there? Also the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم He told us عليه الصلاة والسلام فقد أشرك The Prophet told us He has done shirk The person who تعلق تميمة Who connects a تميمة to himself Are you with me? A تميمة Are you with me brothers? This is what شرك الأصر Why أن يكون وسيلة إلى شرك الأكبر It means to a shرك الأكبر It's a what نعم So that's the definition of it As for an example I think I gave it to you right now I gave you And I gave you the issue of تميمة And I did speak about the issue of They call it The issue of تميمة Is that تميمة Is not a سبب شرعي Am I sick?  What do I need? I need For health and cure right? The way I can cure myself Is either through a what A سبب which is شرعي A legislation of Islamic Means such as Quran and اذكار and whatnot And things that the shari'a has prescribed Such as honey and whatnot This is a what? It's a cure based on what? The Quran and the sunnah The second step I can take To cure myself is a what? A means which is قدري مدكيلي has been proven Doctors have come to the conclusion That this is a cure Does that make sense? Pay attention Those two is the only way I can cure myself I can't cure myself If it's not شرعي Nor is it A rope Being tied to my arm How is that شرعي Because the shari'a Actually considered that to be And then how is it قدري Pay attention That this is going to make you This is شرعي And it's شرعي أصغر But it becomes شرعي أصغر Sorry It became شرعي أصغر Because of the shari'a Referring to it as شرعي And this is leading to what? شرعي أكبر It leads what? To شرعي أكبر Because the person who is wearing it Believes what?  He actually says You know what No It becomes what? Even the medication that you take The procedure more that you take That if you say what That this is the cure in and within itself This is شرعي أكبر This is a شرعي أكبر That's not now شرعي أصغر That we're talking about It became شرعي أكبر Does that make sense? Very good Now we're going to mention The last point أحكامه it's rulings The hook for it إن شاء الله تعالى The scholars differed upon This particular point That I'm going to mention Which is أحكامه And that is Is the person going to be In the house forever The reason why They differed upon this is because Pay attention The reason why They differed on this one Is because The ayat just mentioned Is شرك إنه من يشترك بالله يشترك بالله فقد حرم الله عليه الجنة وما أواه النار وما نظال منه من أنصار إن الله لا يغفر أن يشراك بي ويغفر مدون ذلك لمن يشاء إن الذين كفروا من أهل الكتاب والمشتركين في ناري جهنما أولائك ومشرروا البرية So all of these ayats I just mentioned is شرك So since this is Unrestricted It's referring to what شرك أكبر أن شرك أصغر as well So both of them Are the same When it comes to the day of judgment That the person Will stay in the hellfire Ever That's the opinion taken by Who? Sheikh or Islam Ibn Taymi عليه رحمة الله He took that opinion Whereas the majority And the overwhelming scholars They said no The person Will not stay in the hellfire Forever He would be in the hellfire For a period of time And they didn't deal with it As though it's A shirk called أكبر Crystal clear Very good As for the forgiveness It's the same إن الله لا يغفر عن يشرك بي ويغفروا مادونا ذلك لمن يشاء نعم Based on that Based on that My beloved brothers and sisters Based on that I want a noun إن شاء الله تعالى Tell you all That we have finished نواقظ تحيد الألوهية So we have managed To finish the what The six articles of faith Which one have we finished الإيمان و باللهي Believe in Him إن الله These six parts We have actually finished الإيمان و باللهي If somebody asks you What does it mean To believe in Allah Those six parts They cover it That's it الحمد لله We studied تحيد الألوهية ألوهية ألوهية ألوهية ألوهية ألوهية I've got one last point To conclude with And that is the relationship Between all of those تحيدs How are they related And how do they work together So علاقات أما علاقة بين الأقسام The relationship between these types How are they related Between what تحيد الألوهية ألوهية أنا لسمائي و سفات And it is as follows شاء الله تعالى And note this down The relationship between The three is as follows Every single of the Every single one of the two Which is ألوهية تحيد الألوهية تحيدو الأسمائي تحيدو الأسمائي they are names and attributes of Allah صحيح So الروبو بيه android الوهية And they are both من أسماء إلهي They are names from the names of Allah و تعالى Also, as the second one which is توحيد الربوبيا right توحيد الربوبيا فهو مستلزم لتوحيد الألوهية توحيد الربوبيا necessitates توحيد الألوهية Which is what? If you sing Allah in توحيد الربوبيا completely then you are contradicting yourself in not coming with توحيد الألوهية If you are saying Allah is the only creator Allah is the only sustainer Allah is the only provider then why don't you worship Him alone? It necessitates it مستلزم لتوحيد الألوهية As for توحيد الألوهية فهو متضمل لتوحيد الربوبيا توحيد الألوهية If you affirm it You have by default come with توحيد الربوبيا If you have توحيد الألوهية You have by default come with what? You have by default come with التوحيد الربوبيا Because every single person فكل من عبد الله Everybody who worships Allah لابد أن يكون قد أقرب ربوبيتي Anybody who worships Allah alone has to have affirm that Allah is the only creator the only sustainer the only provider That's the relationship between each and every one of them That is the علاقة بين أقسامي ثلاثة The three types of توحيد That we mention So there is what? تلازم They necessitate one another So it is obligatory On every single person to come with what? بتوحيد الربوبيا وتوحيد الألوهية وتوحيد الأسماء والصفات According to how we explained it Any mistakes And any shortcomings that I came with While I was speaking Then Know that it is from me and Shaytan And that Allah's message are totally free from it سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفرواك وأتوبوا إلي