Mark Szymczak: Sedona Quantum Consciousness: Prayer, Breath & the Quantum Field   What happens when an engineer, mystic, and biohacker all live in the same body? You get Mark Szymczak, founder of the Sedona Quantum Consciousness Center, ancestral health advocate, and guide into the quantum field of prayer, intention, and joy.In this episode of Awaken Your Purpose, Mark shares how asthma, family challenges, and a career in engineering sales eventually led him to Sedona, where he now runs Sedona Quantum Consciousness, Desert Rose, and Canyon Rose retreat spaces. With more than 15,000 hours of meditation and prayer, a Master’s in Applied Breathing Sciences, and deep training in biofeedback and neurofeedback, Mark bridges spiritual practice with nervous-system literacy and real-world community building. From his daily 9 p.m. universal prayer practice to Mission Mondays, Frequency Fridays, and his simple but potent advice - “breathe through your nose” - Mark shows how prayer, breath, and ancestral health habits can reset our dopamine, calm our nervous systems, and tune us into purpose. If you’ve ever wondered how to access the quantum field, live more often in joy, and turn your struggles into fuel for service, this conversation is for you.   Timecodes 00:00 – Biggest struggle in living his purpose & why challenges become fuel 01:15 – Zenka introduces Mark & Sedona Quantum Consciousness 02:17 – Nervous system, nature, and why calm is key to finding purpose 03:15 – Mark’s current purpose: prayer state, less breathing, more coherence 04:01 – How his purpose evolved: engineering, asthma, and spiritual pivots 05:13 – Discovering the quantum field & collective intentional work 06:41 – Why doing the work in the quantum is easier than on the material plane 07:07 – The 9 p.m. universal prayer practice: how it works & why it matters 07:58 – Lifting human consciousness through joy and gratitude 08:58 – What is the quantum field? Intention, miracles & a loving universe 11:01 – Seeing life’s challenges as lessons instead of punishment 11:45 – Founding Sedona Quantum Consciousness & combining tech with prayer 12:37 – Mission Mondays: amplifying each other’s missions in the field 13:43 – Frequency Fridays: sound baths, theta states & collective service 14:49 – Why Mark chose joy as his default state 15:47 – Community events, parties & the chemistry of feeling good 16:31 – Why people struggle to “find” their purpose & many purposes over a lifetime 17:20 – Bringing purpose into any job or chapter of life 18:29 – Supporting others’ missions as a powerful purpose in itself 19:08 – How health struggles and asthma led Mark into his deeper calling 20:19 – Studying Applied Breathing Sciences & discovering breath as a spiritual hack 21:37 – Mark’s #1 longevity hack: “Breathe through your nose” 22:43 – Advice for people in the doldrums: start with ancestral health 23:30 – Sleep, nutrition, movement & minimum effective exercise 24:36 – Nature, sunlight & resetting dopamine 25:25 – Tech, addictions, and reclaiming agency over your habits 26:47 – Lessons from the ancestors and what our bodies are truly capable of 27:34 – Why raising consciousness matters for our soul’s evolution 28:27 – Hedonism vs inner contentment & serving at a higher level 29:18 – The Hawkins scale of consciousness & shifting your default state 30:07 – The impact of one person living their purpose on community & lineage 31:53 – What the world could be like if most people were living their purpose  Follow Mark's Work:  https://sedonaqc.org Retreats https://sedonaqc.org/retreat-center  Learn more about the Holomovement Purpose Lab: https://ourlightnet.org/purposemap This collaboration is brought to you by stewards of the Holomovement and LightNet. Special thanks to our Broadcast Partners: Humanity’s Team, Unify, Good of the Whole and New Realities.   The Holomovement is a social movement that awakens us to our inte