The Break You Didn't Know You Needed: Introducing the URB (VIDEO)

Ultradian rhythms are programmed into every living thing on this planet — including us. And we ignore them at our peril.

You can take an Ultradian Rhythm Break (URB) at your desk. Or outside. Or by lying down on the floor. I explain more about the how and why of it all in the video below.

Note: As part of my new series on Healthy Deviant Renegade Rituals, I’m reissuing this post from last December, originally sent exclusively to paying subscribers, and by way of an update, I’m also including a little video I shot while out walking my dog yesterday. You’ll find it directly below, and then, at the very end of the post, just below the paywall (for paying subscribers only), you’ll also find a related chapter of my book that goes into lots more depth.

True fact: I’ve been obsessed with ultradian rhythms for decades, and hollering about them to anyone who would listen for almost as long.

I have also drawn a few different illustrations to explain ultradian rhythms. The simplest of them looks like this:

So, what the heck are ultradian rhythms — and Ultradian Rhythm Breaks? So glad you asked.

Ultradian rhythms are kinda like circadian rhythms — oscillating cycles of energetic output and recovery — but snack size.

So instead of occurring on a 24-hour circadian cycle, they occur many times throughout the day, pretty much like clockwork, every 90 to 120 minutes. And they accomplish many of the same goals as circadian rhythms, helping to regulate the body’s central systems and aiding in virtually all of its functions, including digestion, metabolism, hormonal regulation, and self-repair.

In this week’s video post, I explain why I love Ultradian Rhythm Breaks (URBs for short) so much — and why I consider them to be “the ultimate biohack.”

Take a peek … (just click on the image below to watch the mini-workshop video excerpted from my Healthy Deviant U experience.👇

You’ll learn everything you need to know about ultradian rhythms from this mini-workshop video, excerpted from Lesson 7 of my Healthy Deviant U experience.

Eager to learn more about ultradian rhythms?

Hurrah! I devote an entire chapter of my book, The Healthy Deviant, to this topic. I recorded this podcast on it, too. And this blog post.

So if you’re interested, please dive on in. If you have questions, let me know. And if you have your own experience with URBs, I’d love to hear about it!

Above all, please, please, please — give this practice a try for yourself. It’s simple. It’s free. It takes 20 minutes, tops.

But if you have only 10 minutes, that’s still better than nothing, particularly if it gets you started down the curious, experimental road of listening to your own body’s signals.

I know literally NOBODY who has tried even one Ultradian Rhythm Break and not been blown away by the positive body-mind impact.

The key, of course, lies in continuing to take them. Because, sadly, our unhealthy society does not make that easy. But if enough of us keep doing weird and healthy stuff like this, I swear we’ll normalize it — somehow! 😊

Here’s a little video I shot while out on an Ultradian Rhythm walk with my dog, Sal. You can find this and many others on my Instagram feed.

Meanwhile, thank you again for supporting my work. I cannot begin to tell you what it means to me.

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P.P.S. Below, for paid subscribers, I’m including a full chapter of my book, The Healthy Deviant, that covers Ultradian Rhythm Breaks in detail. Every other week, I send something special for paid subscribers. Paying subscribers help me keep my dog Sal fed, and they help me pay back in the monstrous vet bill we encountered when a hit-and-run driver caused her leg to be amputated about a year ago. You can read that story here. And happily, as you can see in the video I posted at the top, she is hopping along so much better now!