How To Maximise Your Energy | Mikey Breathes

What if you've been taught to see your body as something to control, discipline, and force into shape, when the only thing separating you from radical transformation is learning to listen to it instead? I sit down again with Mikey Breathes, a world traveller, energy teacher, and the creator of The Guide, for a wide-ranging, unfiltered, and often very funny conversation about energy, self-love, and what happens when you stop fighting your own body. We start from China, where Mikey is three months into a stay he describes as the most physically intense place he's ever lived, and use it as a jumping off point into the real subject of the episode: voltage. Not vibration, not manifestation, but literal energy, what generates it, what discharges it, and why so many of us are walking around running on empty without ever asking why. From there we get into self-love, redefined not as indulgence but as self-preservation, and its opposite, which Mikey argues isn't self-hate but self-ignorance. We talk about the difference between discipline and cooperation, about what it actually means to be present with your body rather than at war with it, and about escapism in all its modern forms: doomscrolling, new age spirituality, waiting for disclosure, outsourcing your thinking to AI. Mikey shares the personal story behind his own health journey, and we get into some genuinely big territory: momentum over manifestation, dependency as a loss of power, and what it means to bring life into every interaction you have, rather than waiting for life to happen to you. A note on tone: this one is loose, playful, and frequently ridiculous, but the message is clear - maybe it's time to begin to listen to your boy rather than trying to control it.    Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/   Mickey Breathes Socials https://www.instagram.com/mikeybreathes/ The Life Guide https://theguide.life/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio