Practices like breathwork, psychedelics, and meditation are now subjects of federal grants and clinical trials for their ability to shift internal states and induce neuroplasticity.

“so many Concepts that I was intrigued by — breath work for instance — psychedelics yep — meditation I mean now people get federal grants to study this stuff yeah and we do reductionist work to try and understand in fact I had to disguise breath work as respiration physiology — which we did and we did a clinical trial you know lo and behold certain patterns of breathing shift your internal State and your sleep and your anxiety it's like a du it's like a giant duh but it was it was scary territory for a while and — and now you know psychedelics have kind of broken through as I mean I had I mean I just have to say this with like while touching my forehead and like like that they adjust neuromodulators just like but differently than certain drugs that adjust neuromodulators and everyone accepted so the changing neuromodulators to change conscious experience and in that altered experience to be able to achieve neuroplasticity is like a it's also a big duh of course it works”