Intro: Broadcasting live from the Business RadioX studios in Houston, Texas. It’s time for Houston Business Radio. Now, here’s your host.

Trisha Stetzel: Hello, Houston. Trisha Stetzel here bringing you another episode of Houston Business Radio. I’m thrilled to welcome today’s guest today. Raj Khedun joining us all the way from London. Raj is an inspired manager at Keep Fit Kingdom, whose bold mission is to help a billion people become happy, healthy centenarians. What does that mean? Living to be a hundred and even beyond. While thriving for over 15 years. Raj especially specialized in relationship coaching and well-being transformation, and he’s also the creator of the three by three metaverse breathing method. Part of this part of his seven Minutes to Bliss program. It’s a breakthrough practice that’s helping people dramatically reduce stress, anxiety and even heal insomnia in just minutes. Raj brings such an infectious energy and passion for helping people unlock their potential and truly make their dreams happen, and I can’t wait for you to meet him. Raj, welcome to the show!

Raj Khedun: Wow, that was a great intro, Trisha. Very colorful, larger than life, very American.

Trisha Stetzel: I love to do this because we don’t use this type of language about ourselves. So I love to build this up. And I in in the conversations that you and I have had already, I believe all of these things and I’m so excited to get started today. So, Raj, let’s talk a little bit about you. So I’d like to learn a little bit more about you, or let the audience learn a little bit more about you. And then I think we’re going to get into some practice today, which will be very exciting.

Raj Khedun: Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. So thank you for having me. Really, uh, thrilled to be here, uh, with a Houston audience. Texas. We love it. Uh, so I’ll take you into a bit of a Genesis backstory where it all started. And, uh, the reason why I talk about this is because we, I believe as kids, when we’re children, we all have dreams. We have kind of an idea of what we want to do. Like, we want to be, you know, run for president or we want to, you know, change something in society and be well known and leave a legacy or something. You know, we always have these great national be a great physicist or something. And I think what happens is that we lose touch with that dream as we get older and we get pushed through a system which is not really designed to help you fulfill your potential. So then you kind of lose that dream becomes dimmer and dimmer, and then you just get, you know, just, you know, stressed out with all the practicalities of life. You’ve got a husband, you’ve got kids, your wife, or you’ve got mortgage and and and all that stuff. So, um, I it all started for me when I was three years old, and my mother takes me to the nursery or kindergarten. It’s, uh, you call it, uh, in London for the first time when I’m three and we’re getting rolled, we’ll look at the playground, look at the classrooms and everything, and we end up in the library and the first two books I ever pick up off a bookshelf in my life was two books. One about dinosaurs and one about planets. Right? Yeah. And the Thomas the Tank Engine, the Mister Happy Mister Sad books. I didn’t touch those.

Speaker4: But for whatever.

Raj Khedun: For whatever reason, these images imprinted themselves so deeply on my memory that I can remember it as if it was yesterday. And these believe it or not, these images guided me more than my entire education did. Right. And you say, why? What’s so fascinating about that? Well, dinosaurs. Because of evolution. Like, how do species evolve from a crocodile? You know, nowadays, we know crocodiles still look like dinosaurs. Right. Their design hasn’t changed much. But dinosaurs. And then, you know, as evolved animals become, you know, dogs and then elephants and dolphins, they have this ability to communicate and cooperate in a group, in a family. I’m thinking, what? How does that happen? Where does that intelligence come from? How does that decide it? And then I started thinking, well, can humans evolve their own brain then? Can they evolve their own level of intelligence and sentience to higher and higher levels? And of course, the answer is yes. We can’t do that if we are determined to put in the effort, the consistency, the, you know, the willpower to to do that, you can do a lot. Um, so that was the, the, the dinosaur aspect. The planets came in, for example, when I was thinking about there’s all these beautiful planets out there Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Mars. Right. It’s Jupiter itself. The king of planets spins at 47,000km/h. Right? And you can fit 1300 planet Earths in there. And I’m.

Speaker4: Thinking.

Raj Khedun: Wow, what? What must it be doing there with all that energy spinning that fast? How does it impact other planets and humanity and animals and what is going on? I was asking myself these questions as a kid. Right?

Trisha Stetzel: Wow.

Raj Khedun: Yeah. So that kind of if you look at Mars on YouTube, you can go on Mars and see the videos about the robots on Mars examining Mars. You can see the sky is red. The ground is red, rocky red. But there’s no water, there’s no plants, and there’s no dinosaur bones of any kind anywhere. So why is there an empty planet there? Yeah. Earth, which is right next to it, is full of life with. Billion humans and all the animals and all the fruits and all the bitch and all. Everything is here. Like what? How does that make sense?

Trisha Stetzel: So how did that experience as a young child really lead you to the work that you’re doing today? Raj?

Raj Khedun: Well, I wanted to understand, like the the how things are created. But why? How are humans? Why are they different? What makes one strong? One week, one happy, one sad? One takes their own life. One lives an amazing life. One has a.

Speaker4: Free.

Raj Khedun: Life. And some can inspire others. Some can’t even inspire themselves. I was wondering like, what is that all about? Where does that come from? How can you change it or not? So if that helps to kind of, um, understand how that evolutionary process was for me, then you get a sense of, oh, he was asking those kind of questions earlier. So you were meant to go some way to answering them?

Speaker4: Yeah.

Trisha Stetzel: Okay. So how. What? Tell us what it is that you’re doing today with your with your clients. And I think we may even practice a little bit here, do a demonstration. So why don’t we go there next.

Speaker4: Sure, sure.

Raj Khedun: So, um, again, a bit of background. I studied yoga and metaphysics for 25 to 30 years. Right. And when you come across laws like electromagnetism, light, you know, energy, these kind of things, then you begin to realize there is an underpinning, uh, in the universe, which humans are a part of. And breath is the most important energy that you need to understand for your body, your mind, your everything. Because you can live for 40 days without food, for days without water, but only four minutes without your breath. So if breath is the most important fuel, why don’t we talk about it? Why isn’t it being discussed in school and things like that? Yeah. So yeah, your guess is as good as mine on that front. But I get into conspiracies, but, you know.

Trisha Stetzel: And even the idea that our doctors are not talking to us about wellness in general. Uh, you know, it’s always, oh, treating a symptom. Let’s dose out a pill. And then that pill provides us with more side effects, and then we have to have another pill. So it’s a very interesting space that we live in particularly. Um, I’ll call it, you know, here in the, the Western world. Uh, it’s more about treating the symptom versus treating, you know, being well. And I think as business owners, as leaders, as entrepreneurs, we need to be well. We need to feel good. We need to create that great energy. We need to learn breathing exercises so that we can lower the stress in our bodies in order to be great leaders and entrepreneurs. Yeah.

Raj Khedun: Totally. Totally. So to to get back to your question and to answer that in a bit more detail. Um, I’ve been studying very complex breathing methods for years, but that’s great if you want to commit your life to that. You almost live a hermit like life and kind of almost monastic like like a monk monk mode, as they say nowadays. So I was a monk for eight years, right from 22 to 30. And it’s like, okay, Raj doesn’t go to parties. He doesn’t watch films in the cinema. Like, what does he do? And like, I practice breathing. So, um, I was, you know, coaching women, as you mentioned in the intro, uh, and they would panic a lot when relationships weren’t going well in the pandemic because you couldn’t meet and they would send me awful WhatsApp messages. Oh, well, he said this, what shall I say? And they get panicky and I’ll do the breathing methods with them. But the problem was there when they would go home and they would face another kind of crisis scenario. They would forget the breathing and they would just get all panicked again. Right? I said, you did the breathing with me? Yes. It worked. Yes. Then why aren’t you doing it in your own space then? Oh, it’s not part of my lifestyle. I forgot, it’s too complicated. That’s what they would say. These are doctors and lawyers and teachers. Okay. What do you find so difficult about breathing anyway? I then set upon designing something so simple and easy that anyone can remember it.

Trisha Stetzel: Okay.

Raj Khedun: So that’s how we’ve developed the three three, which reduces stress, anxiety, and suddenly within 30 to 90s three minutes and people, all that stress disappears. They’re getting flow state. They fall asleep if they need to. So that’s how they vote.

Trisha Stetzel: Okay, well, this sounds very special. Um. I’m excited to learn more about it.

Raj Khedun: Okay. Shall we try it for a minute? Would you like.

Speaker5: To. Let’s do it. I’m ready.

Raj Khedun: Okay. Wonderful. What you do first. Do you do? First of all, Trisha, do you do any breathing methods at all in your own?

Speaker5: I, I.

Trisha Stetzel: Am familiar with box breathing, um, and breathing from the belly. So I know that that’s very important versus trying to fill up our lungs. We want to fill up our diaphragm. So that’s the extent of what I know about breathing.

Speaker5: Okay.

Raj Khedun: Wonderful. Do you do cold plunges or Wim Hof? Have you seen any of that stuff?

Speaker5: No, I have not.

Raj Khedun: Okay. All right. So what we do first, Trisha, we check the nostril flow first. So we block one nostril, okay? And we breathe in and out of the other. Do the same on the other side. So mine are 5050 at the moment. What’s the ratio roughly for you? Would you say it felt.

Speaker5: Yeah, it felt a 5050 to me. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. Okay. Good, good.

Raj Khedun: Um, and on a scale of 1 to 10. Trisha, where one is terrible and ten is amazing overall, how would you say you feel right now?

Trisha Stetzel: Because I’m here with you. And we had such a great conversation before we started. I’m totally at an eight right now. Maybe pushing nine. Yeah, I’m feeling pretty good this morning.

Raj Khedun: Love it. Okay. Awesome. All right. So this breathing method to three three. Um, it’s also known as the three three insomnia hack because people love it for sleep.

Speaker5: Oh, I’m.

Trisha Stetzel: Totally I’m totally using this so that I can get to bed faster than I normally do. Yes.

Speaker5: Yeah, exactly.

Raj Khedun: We’ll go through an experiential, uh, moment right here. So. All right, so what you do is you breathe in three parts through the nose like this. I’m not sure if the zoom is going to cancel out the noise, but it’s sniff sniff sniff and then ha ha ha without the vocal cord. So.

Speaker5: Okay.

Raj Khedun: Sniff. Ha ha ha. Without the vocal cords.

Speaker5: Okay.

Raj Khedun: Open them up a little bit more because a ha comes from the back. Yeah, yeah. The ha comes in the back. Yeah. Perfect. Comes from the back of the throat. Activates the vagus nerve. You’ve got it. You got it. Okay, what we’re going to do, Trisha, we’re going to do it for one minute together.

Speaker5: Okay.

Raj Khedun: With the eyes closed.

Speaker5: Okay.

Raj Khedun: It’s going to help you feel everything that’s going on inside, within the mind, in the body, Everything okay?

Trisha Stetzel: I can already feel a shift. Just doing that for a few seconds.

Speaker5: I can see your physiology.

Raj Khedun: The way it was responding.

Speaker5: Like. Wow.

Trisha Stetzel: Yeah, I’m. Yeah, I’m already already going there. Okay, so I’m ready. Let’s do this.

Speaker5: Okay.

Raj Khedun: Let’s do the three, two one with the eyes closed. Let’s go. Stop there. Keep your eyes closed, Trisha. Just relax. Just gently observe what’s happening within. Just relax. Keeping your eyes closed. Trisha. Tell me what you notice and how you feel.

Trisha Stetzel: Much more relaxed. I did.

Speaker5: And.

Trisha Stetzel: During the exercise. Get my. No. No vision. Of course, as my eyes were closed. But dark black with colored small spots came to to my vision while I had my eyes closed and it became harder for me to concentrate on what I was doing because I was really started to relax.

Speaker5: And I.

Trisha Stetzel: Had to consciously tell myself to continue the breathing because I wanted to just stop and feel what was happening in the.

Speaker5: Moment? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Raj Khedun: And do you feel any gentle pressure points around the head, the brain, prefrontal cortex, between the eyebrows anyway. Like that?

Trisha Stetzel: I do. Right. I would consider it in between my eyebrows.

Speaker5: Yeah.

Trisha Stetzel: Which is normally where I’m squinting. Right. So when I have stress, that’s an area where because I have those lines, the three lines in between my eyebrows. Right. So, uh, I can definitely feel a point there. And then just above, like the tips of my ears. Right.

Speaker5: Mhm. Right. Yeah.

Trisha Stetzel: Not in a bad. Not in a bad way, but.

Speaker5: Certainly.

Trisha Stetzel: More conscious of. Yeah. The feeling there and here between my eyebrows.

Speaker5: Yeah.

Raj Khedun: The pineal gland activation there. That’s fantastic. Um, okay. And did you notice, Trisha, your heart rate slowed down a bit.

Trisha Stetzel: I truthfully, consciously know, but I think based on the way my body was reacting to the exercise, I’m sure that that happened. Um, because everything felt like it slowed down for me.

Speaker5: Yeah. Yes, exactly.

Raj Khedun: Now, do you feel the monkey mind chatter? We call it, you know, sort of ADHD mind.

Speaker5: Yes I do. Yes.

Trisha Stetzel: Thank you for asking me about that. Because there’s this chatter in my head worried about the people who are listening. Like I felt like I needed to that chatter.

Speaker5: Right.

Trisha Stetzel: I needed to say, okay, if you’re only listening. You can do this too.

Speaker5: And.

Trisha Stetzel: Feel the same thing, but don’t do it while you’re driving. This is the chatter. And if you’re only listening, you should absolutely go to the YouTube channel and see what’s happening. Because I’m. My eyes are still closed. I’m sure anyone watching Raj would see how my body changed as we were going through that exercise. So we would encourage. That’s the noise. I would encourage anyone who’s just listening to either play along, right, or do the exercise with us. So long as you’re not driving, because you may. Don’t close your eyes and drive.

Speaker5: Yeah, and.

Trisha Stetzel: I want them to experience or see what happened with me while doing the exercise.

Speaker5: Yeah. Mhm. That was.

Raj Khedun: Yeah. That mental chatter. Did it sort of get less sort of usual.

Speaker5: Oh yeah.

Trisha Stetzel: Oh yeah. Bye bye. By the time you said time all of that was out of my mind.

Speaker5: Yes.

Raj Khedun: Good, good. And did you notice an expanse of mind beyond the body? Like there’s a growing sense of awareness that you’re not just flesh and bone. Did you feel something like that?

Trisha Stetzel: I’m wondering so consciously. I don’t know the answer to that question, but I’m wondering if that black space with all of the colored dots that I experience may have been that?

Speaker5: Yes.

Trisha Stetzel: I wouldn’t know how to explain it or connect it.

Raj Khedun: I know because the first time you’ve done it, yeah, I know. And you said you felt an eight out of ten. What would you say you feel now? Trisha?

Speaker5: Oh, so much better.

Trisha Stetzel: I would I would push myself to more like a nine, nine and a half.

Speaker5: Wow.

Trisha Stetzel: And the other thing that’s happening this phenomenon is my eyes are watering.

Speaker5: Wow. Really? Yeah.

Trisha Stetzel: My eyes are watering, so when I open them back up, I hope I don’t.

Speaker5: I may look.

Trisha Stetzel: Like I’m crying, but I’m not. My eyes are just watering.

Speaker5: Right.

Raj Khedun: Totally, totally. And just a quick couple of things, Trisha. Um, are you surprised at how quickly this worked and how quickly this.

Trisha Stetzel: Oh, most definitely, because, you know, I’ve done the box breathing before, and I. I know how to calm myself through that I can even lower my blood pressure through that type of breathing. Um, and that takes some time. This was so quick, and to get me from there to here is very interesting because I am I’m in such a calm state.

Speaker5: Yes.

Trisha Stetzel: And not even conscious like I have good posture. So I sit up straight, but I wasn’t even conscious about holding myself up. If I had been in a totally relaxed state. You know, I may have kind of hunched over.

Speaker5: I.

Trisha Stetzel: All I don’t even realize any of that. And it’s so calming.

Speaker5: Yeah. So it’s a calm.

Raj Khedun: Exactly. Now, the other couple of quick things here. Um, do you feel like you’re in a flow state? No.

Trisha Stetzel: Yeah, absolutely. When we finish, I’m totally going to go do some creative work.

Raj Khedun: The scientist. The Hungarian scientist. Um, Mihai Mihai says you need to practice a craft for 10,000 hours before you get into a flow state where we help get people into flow state in 60s.

Speaker5: Oh.

Trisha Stetzel: That’s amazing.

Speaker5: Yeah.

Raj Khedun: Yeah. And the other quick thing is, Trisha, would you feel like if someone’s having difficulty sleeping, they do this method before bed? Do you feel. Do you see how it could help them drift off to sleep?

Speaker5: Yes. Yes and.

Trisha Stetzel: Yes. And I’m totally doing this tonight.

Speaker5: Yeah. And I like.

Trisha Stetzel: Because I think it will work. Box breathing helps, but it doesn’t always, always clear my mind. And I think that this could be very beneficial at clearing all of the. I call it head trash project.

Speaker5: Yeah.

Trisha Stetzel: A great way to clear the head trash in a very short amount of time.

Speaker5: Excellent.

Raj Khedun: Okay. You can open your eyes now.

Speaker5: Okay. All right. Yeah.

Trisha Stetzel: Okay. That was an experience. And, um, for those of you watching, it was real, like, not practiced. Raj and I didn’t practice this. He said that we were going to do this today, and I was completely open to it, and it’s something that you guys can do as well. So Raj, thank you for sharing that. And I would love for and I know we’ve all we’re already almost to the back end of our conversation. And I still have one big question for you. But before we get there, if people are wanting to already connect with you and have a conversation or learn more about this practice or other things that you’re teaching your clients, how, what is the best way to connect with you?

Raj Khedun: Best way is to go to keep calm. So keep calm. They’ll see there a tab, um, around the three three products. We even have a, um, product they can buy on there. Download the resources. Helps to teach them a lot about this method and how it can transform many areas of their lives. They can email us. They can WhatsApp us, get questions all day, every day from all over the world. And we’re helping people with their various challenges. So that’s the.

Speaker5: Best.

Trisha Stetzel: That thank you. And if you’re looking for Raj specifically, uh, Keenan is his last name and spelled k h e d u n. Of course I will put all of his links and contact information in the show notes, so you can just point and click and connect directly with Raj. Thank you for taking me through that. I feel like the rest of my day is going to be the most amazing day ever, just because we spent this time together. So as we finish up today, I love to hear one of your favorite stories. It could be about you or one of the clients that you’ve worked with. What bubbles up for you? And who would you like to tell us about today?

Raj Khedun: Um, I would have to say it was a pivotal, life changing experience. I have to mention this because it’s so unbelievable that even I’m blown away by thinking about it. When I was 18, I went to India and I meet this avatar, right? A full blown avatar like you’ve heard of Avatar and James Cameron’s films, or Avatar The Last Airbender on Netflix. These avatars exist. They are real. And I met one who was a almighty power avatar who just told me everything about myself. When I was three, I picked those books up. He knew everything. I know why you’re here, son. I know I’m the one who brought you here. I know everything you know. I’m going to teach you everything you need to know to do something very significant on this planet. And I was like, oh, my God, you got to be kidding me.

Speaker5: This is not this.

Raj Khedun: But he said, look, don’t worry about it. He’s electromagnetic power got into me because I was right next to him several times. And I know that when you were in the presence of someone like that, the reason they do it is because they need people to spread something positive for humanity before we die. So I have to mention that people want to know me and get close to my energy because of the proximity I have to an avatar. So that’s why I’m here to share as much as I can with as many people as I can.

Trisha Stetzel: So thank you for sharing that. And I want to. I’m going to say this out loud in front of my audience. I want to invite you back to the show, Raj, because I really want to dig into this idea of energy. And I think that it’s so important to have that conversation around where the energy is coming from and why it’s out there, and why we’re attracted to certain people or certain things and why certain things happen to us. Uh, whether you believe it or not, it’s happening. And I would love for you to come back and let’s really dive into the energy that’s out there and how it affects all of us from a personal perspective as well as a business perspective.

Raj Khedun: Absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker5: My friend.

Trisha Stetzel: I’m so excited that you came on with me today. Our time went by so fast. I really appreciate your sharing this. Um, three and three practice with me. I will be using it. I’m going to give you some feedback, Probably tomorrow. I’ll let you know how this works tonight. I’m really excited about being able to go to sleep so much faster this evening when I lay my head on the pillow. Raj thank you. This has been wonderful.

Raj Khedun: Appreciate it. Looking forward to the next time as well.

Speaker5: Me too.

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