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"'Our lack of community is intensely painful.  A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. "
David James Duncan
Discovered in The Sun Magazine, Sy Safranski Editor, thesunmagazine.org

"Beating children has its origins in slavery" Jordan Riak

Understand the Optimal Breathing Window (OBW) to break your patterns of unhealthy breathing.
Forced deeper breathing may be making things worse.
Do you feel like you can never get a deep breath catching breath? Or it is getting harder and harder for that?
Are stress levels mounting? 

Breath is life. Below is what many feel when they cannot take a deep in-breath. I call it the Speed Bump Of Life. 

It is really tension all over the rib cage front side and back, compounded by a weakened diaphragm, but it is usually felt most at the bottom of the sternum. "Can't get over the hump" or "can't take a breath-catching breath" is how many describe it.

Notice in the next two examples below how the breathing wave flows smoothly, uninterrupted, up and down. 

Notice how the bottom (pear) stays large. Pear is for Parasympathetic (PNS), rest, digest, heal and accessing creativity. Note the opposites of rest,  digest  and heal and you have the key factors why stress is tied to some 80% or more of all illness.  

The breathing wave should, as often as possible, have the foundation of the parasympathetic. The PNS foundation needs to be MAINTAINED REGARDLESS OF THE SITUATION.  

Otherwise our  alpha state and mental focus are severely compromised. We are less able to maintain connection with our internal selves and purpose, to  sustain individual integrity and/or simultaneously work in teams to solve complex problems with positive social impact. 

As soon as the bottom of the PEAR (parasympathetic strength) gets smaller, and excessive stress enters the equation, then the breathing  foundation as well gets smaller and we quickly trend towards chest breathing and over stimulation fight or flight freeze, fake it, fumble, mumble, "choke" as in sports, or stumble. 

"Each of us gets the same amount of attention to spend each day. It�s a competitive advantage to figure out how to focus it to get something done."'
Seth Godin

For an ongoing creative state of energetic calm, we must develop our breathing to STAY in this dominant parasympathetic foundation even when the proverbial stuff hits the fan. 

"'Our lack of community is intensely painful.  A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. "
David James Duncan
Discovered in The Sun Magazine, Sy Safranski Editor, thesunmagazine.org

"Beating children has its origins in slavery" Jordan Riak

Understand the Optimal Breathing Window (OBW) to break your patterns of unhealthy breathing.
Forced deeper breathing may be making things worse.
Do you feel like you can never get a deep breath catching breath? Or it is getting harder and harder for that?
Are stress levels mounting? 

Breath is life. Below is what many feel when they cannot take a deep in-breath. I call it the Speed Bump Of Life. 

It is really tension all over the rib cage front side and back, compounded by a weakened diaphragm, but it is usually felt most at the bottom of the sternum. "Can't get over the hump" or "can't take a breath-catching breath" is how many describe it.

Notice in the next two examples below how the breathing wave flows smoothly, uninterrupted, up and down. 

Notice how the bottom (pear) stays large. Pear is for Parasympathetic (PNS), rest, digest, heal and accessing creativity. Note the opposites of rest,  digest  and heal and you have the key factors why stress is tied to some 80% or more of all illness.  

The breathing wave should, as often as possible, have the foundation of the parasympathetic. The PNS foundation needs to be MAINTAINED REGARDLESS OF THE SITUATION.  

Otherwise our  alpha state and mental focus are severely compromised. We are less able to maintain connection with our internal selves and purpose, to  sustain individual integrity and/or simultaneously work in teams to solve complex problems with positive social impact. 

As soon as the bottom of the PEAR (parasympathetic strength) gets smaller, and excessive stress enters the equation, then the breathing  foundation as well gets smaller and we quickly trend towards chest breathing and over stimulation fight or flight freeze, fake it, fumble, mumble, "choke" as in sports, or stumble. 

"Each of us gets the same amount of attention to spend each day. It�s a competitive advantage to figure out how to focus it to get something done."'
Seth Godin

For an ongoing creative state of energetic calm, we must develop our breathing to STAY in this dominant parasympathetic foundation even when the proverbial stuff hits the fan. 

"I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness , but we, as a people, have bought into the false dream of convenience, and turned away from a deep engagement with our internal lives-those fountains of inconvenient feeling.... We're hurtling through time and space and information faster and faster, seeking that network connection. But at the same time we're falling away from our families and our neighbors and ourselves." 
Cheryl Strayed 
Discovered in The Sun Magazine, Sy Safranski Editor, thesunmagazine.org

Understand the Optimal Breathing Window (OBW) to break your patterns of unhealthy breathing.
Forced deeper breathing may be making things worse.
Do you feel like you can never get a deep breath catching breath? Or it is getting harder and harder for that?
Are stress levels mounting? 

"I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness , but we, as a people, have bought into the false dream of convenience, and turned away from a deep engagement with our internal lives-those fountains of inconvenient feeling.... We're hurtling through time and space and information faster and faster, seeking that network connection. But at the same time we're falling away from our families and our neighbors and ourselves." 
Cheryl Strayed 
Discovered in The Sun Magazine, Sy Safranski Editor, thesunmagazine.org

Understand the Optimal Breathing Window (OBW) to break your patterns of unhealthy breathing.
Forced deeper breathing may be making things worse.
Do you feel like you can never get a deep breath catching breath? Or it is getting harder and harder for that?
Are stress levels mounting? 

Understand the Optimal Breathing Window (OBW) to break your patterns of unhealthy breathing.
Forced deeper breathing may be making things worse.
Do you feel like you can never get a deep breath catching breath? Or it is getting harder and harder for that?
Are stress levels mounting? 

Understand the Optimal Breathing Window (OBW) to break your patterns of unhealthy breathing.
Forced deeper breathing may be making things worse.
Do you feel like you can never get a deep breath catching breath? Or it is getting harder and harder for that?
Are stress levels mounting? 

Mike highly recommends the below weight loss  program.

Understand the Optimal Breathing Window (OBW) to break your patterns of unhealthy breathing.
Forced deeper breathing may be making things worse.
Do you feel like you can never get a deep breath catching breath? Or it is getting harder and harder for that?
Are stress levels mounting? 

Mike highly recommends the below weight loss  program.

Understand the Optimal Breathing Window (OBW) to break your patterns of unhealthy breathing.
Forced deeper breathing may be making things worse.
Do you feel like you can never get a deep breath catching breath? Or it is getting harder and harder for that?
Are stress levels mounting? 

Feel Rich: A Netflix Documentary About Food.
Chock full of great role model rappers and some tragic examples of poor food choices. Should inspire anyone who eats. See great weight loss guidelines below.

How to Recover From Stress & Trauma & Not Get Sick or Sicker

Feel Rich: A Netflix Documentary About Food.
Chock full of great role model rappers and some tragic examples of poor food choices. Should inspire anyone who eats. See great weight loss guidelines below.

How to Recover From Stress & Trauma & Not Get Sick or Sicker

Understand the Optimal Breathing Window (OBW) to break your patterns of unhealthy breathing.
Forced deeper breathing may be making things worse.
Do you feel like you can never get a deep breath catching breath? Or it is getting harder and harder for that?
Are stress levels mounting? 

Understand the Optimal Breathing Window (OBW) to break your patterns of unhealthy breathing.
Forced deeper breathing may be making things worse.
Do you feel like you can never get a deep breath catching breath? Or it is getting harder and harder for that?
Are stress levels mounting? 

Understand the Optimal Breathing Window (OBW) to break your patterns of unhealthy breathing.
Forced deeper breathing may be making things worse.
Do you feel like you can never get a deep breath catching breath? Or it is getting harder and harder for that?
Are stress levels mounting?