How to Get True Health, Extended-Release Calm, and a New Personality

1. An Extended-Release Calm Pill

Practicing slow breathing upon waking is like taking an extended-release calm pill each morning.

It will work throughout the day to help you be more resilient to stressors, experience more joy, and have more overall fulfillment 🙏

2. Creating Wholeness with Attention to Overlooked Moments

“Breath awareness is one method that can help you develop full attention to otherwise easily overlooked moments of daily life. Using this practice throughout the day transforms many small and simple activities into meaningful chances to develop a mind that is focused, calm, and alert.”

– Larry Rosenberg, Three Steps to Awakening

Here’s a great reminder that breath awareness can help us notice moments we usually overlook. Although these moments may not start out as much, I’ve learned that when you bring your full attention to them, it often creates wholeness 🙏

3. It’s Important to Practice When You’re Not Stressed

“It's important to have tools when it comes to dealing with stressful situations. If we haven’t practiced them, absorbed them, and made them work for us outside of a crisis situation, they might be harder to draw on when we need them in real time. That’s why it’s important to to practice them at times of the day when you are not in a crisis-situation. That way when you need to manage a stressful situation, your nervous system will already be attuned to what it feels like to be safe.”

- Eddie Stern, Healing Through Breathing

This is such good advice: Practice when you’re not stressed so it works when you are. 👏👏👏

4. A New Personality?

A wonderful passage to contemplate on mindfulness:

“In my early days of practice I hoped that it would give me a whole new personality. I've discovered that instead mindfulness practice has actually helped me enjoy the one I have.”

- Ronald Siegel, Psy.D., The Mindfulness Solution

"Each of us came here to do something. And as I see it, true health has nothing to do with diagnosing a disease or prolonging life just for the sake of it; it’s about finding out who we are, paying attention to how we’re called to grow and change, and listening to what makes our heart sing."

— — Gladys McGarey, MD, 103 Years Old

Category: Frog Breathing

Answer: Outside of water, frogs use this breathing system, which is opposite of humans and involves gulping air and pushing it into the lungs.

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Question: What is positive pressure breathing?

In good breath,

Nick Heath, T1D, PhD
“Breathing is the compound interest of health & wellness.”

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