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What is Symmetry?Symmetry’s mission is to change your relationship with stress. Stress is a part of life. However, yourability to control stress properly will go a long way in determining your quality of life. At Symmetry,we will push you out of your comfort zone to teach you how to control your response to stress. Symmetry achieves this through breath work, heat and ice contrast therapy, and more. We believe itis vital to balance movement with rest and recovery to maximize your potential.

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Who am I?Taylor Somerville is the Founder and CEO of TheLong Game, LLC and Symmetry. Prior to startingThe Long Game and Symmetry, Taylor worked in theinvestment business for over 15 years. In 2017, heleft his investment career to focus full time on hisbusinesses in the health and wellness industry. After going through a divorce in 2014, Taylordiscovered breath work as a way to deal with thestress and anxiety in his personal and professionallife. Through breath work, Taylor was able teachhimself how to respond to stressful situations in aproductive manner rather than reacting. In 2017,after seeing the positive changes in himself, Taylorfelt a calling to help others with improving theirown stress management, anxiety, athleticperformance and overall health and wellness. Now,Taylor’s focus is on sharing his story and teachingothers about the practices that helped him changeand improve his life. Taylor began working with XPT, founded by LairdHamilton and Gabby Reece. Through XPT, Taylorgained extensive knowledge into breath work, heatand ice contrast therapy, and XPT’s breath, moveand recover lifestyle. In 2018, Taylor became one ofthe first XPT certified coaches and recently becameone of the first certified Level 3 coaches. In addition to Taylor’s XPT certification, he alsoholds the Art of Breath certification, is a CrossfitLevel 1 trainer and has a certification in CrossFit’sAerobic Capacity program.Taylor incorporates all of these practices incoaching his clients.

Taylor working with the Shelby CountyCommissioners on the importance of

proper breathing for stress management.

Taylor Somerville is the Founder and CEOof The Long Game, LLC and Symmetry.

Aetna – Utilizes mindfulness as a part of theircorporate structure and reported “roughly onequarter of those who took in-office yoga andmindfulness classes reported a 28 percentreduction in their stress levels and a 20 percentimprovement in sleep quality” This translated toover a 60 minute increase of productivity perweek (Gregoire, 2015). Aetna estimates it saved$2,000 per employee in health care costs andgained $3,000 per employee in productivity eachyear by incorporating mindfulness.

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What some of the top companies are saying about mindfulness in the corporateenvironment and how it benefits their business: Companies such as Google, Apple, and Aetna use mindfulness as a way to increase theiremployee performance, productivity, tenure, and overall workplace satisfaction.

Google – Since 2007, Google has offered its own mindfulness course, “Search InsideYourself.” Today, it has thousands of alumni and their program reports that 58% of people,prior to attending the program, reported stress. Upon completion of the course, over 50% ofthe participants who reported stress, reported that their feelings of stress subsided. As far asperformance goes, participants focus and productivity levels rose from 36% pre-program to68% post-program. Google indicates they saved $3,000 per employee each year on increasedproductivity with the program, 7% lower healthcare costs, and a 62 minute increase in weeklyproductivity.

Intel – In 2012, began offering its Awake@Intelmindfulness program. On average participants reporteda 2 point decrease (on a scale of 1 to 10) in stress andfeeling overwhelmed, a 3 point increase in overallhappiness and well-being and a 2 point increase in newideas, insights, mental clarity, creativity, ability tofocus, quality of relationships at work, level ofengagement in meetings, projects and team effort – allarticulated goals of the program.

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Stress is something we all deal with and more and more research is coming out telling ushow detrimental it is to our health. Intuitively, as you know, stress hurts our performanceand makes us act in ways we would not do if we knew how to control it. Mindfulness and proper breathing is an extremely cost effective way of learning how todeal with your stress and that of your employees. Some of the top companies in the worldusing it are seeing massive drops in health care costs and increases in productivity.Learning to access your breath will allow you to change your mental state. It will allowyou to go from tense and stressed out to calm and relaxed. It gives you the time to stepback from the problem at hand and allow you to look at it with fresh eyes and a newperspective. At Symmetry, we can show you and your employees how to use the breath to improve yourlife. We will put you through a breath session that combines multiple techniques andphilosophies to reveal the power of using only your breath to change your mental andphysical state. We will teach you mindfulness techniques that you can utilize outside ofthe class to center yourself for the day. We will show you techniques to control youremotional response to stress. We will show you how to use the breath to improve sleep.You and your employees will leave with a new awareness of how the breath can impactyour mind and body. While this will improve the well-being of you and your employees, itwill also improve your bottom line. For more information please contact Taylor Somerville by emailtaylor@symmetry.live or cell 901-485-3938. Check out www.symmetry.live tofind out about the rest of our offerings.©   C O P Y R I G H T T H E L O N G G AM E , L L C 2 0 1 9

Chronic stress is extremely detrimental to health and well-being. According to the AmericanPsychological Association it costs the U.S. economy over $500 billion a year. Additionally, 60% to80% of workplace accidents are attributed to stress. According to the Harvard Business Review,“health care expenditures at high-pressure companies are nearly 50% greater than at otherorganizations.” In a 2012 survey, 21% of employees reported stress as the main source of errors in their work andmissed deadlines. Additionally, as a result of stress, 15.5% had difficulty getting along withcolleagues, 14.9% missed days at work, and 14.4% said stress made them late. Dr. Leon Chaitow goes into great detail in his book, Recognizing and Treating Breathing Disorders,about how breathing influences every system in your body. Dysfunctional Breathing Patterns(“DBP”), (i.e. breathing into the upper-chest, mainly with the mouth, and not activating thediaphragm) are associated with the body’s stress response, resulting in a chronically stressed state.DBPs are associated with issues such as anxiety, asthma, insomnia, and cardiovascular issues. Current research suggests that “mindfulness training has been shown to reduce the extent to whichemployees experience emotional exhaustion in their jobs.” Mindfulness can decrease physiologicaland psychological concerns such as hypertension, improve brain function, and reduce stress foradded focus

what chronic stresscosts the U.S. economyaccording to theAmerican PsychologicalAssociation.

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$500 BILLION

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the percentage ofworkplace accidentsthat are attributed tostress.

Why is it important for your business to promote proper breathing and mindfulness?