B. Breathe

I.School

Objective:  Breathing 

    • To identify the best techniques for you personally- to breathe

    • To understand how breathing can help you and I:

-calmly listen (or at least fake it for a tad)

-redirect those nasty emotions that can make your life worse if you/I don’t calm the heck down

-enjoy the moments for moments sake! 

    • To use these breathing practices in order to become a more self propelling wheel

Notes

Yea, I get it. I’m tired of people telling me to “just breathe!” Or “calm down” too.  For the purposes of I.School this is a returning point. A space to come home to. Not just breath- Your Breath. A mighty I.Sigh!  It is highly recommended that you, (I), continually breathe. For now. 

Procedure

  1. Don’t do anything. You are already breathing.

  2. Well now that you are thinking about it, might as well swirl it around a bit.

  3. Try a bunch of different ways of breathing until you find a few you like.

  4. Personally, I like to stick to three (as a base)

    1. One to the head- sort of remind myself to “clear space”

    2. One deep breath to the back of the lungs- gets me “out of my head”

    3. Ah, and this is the magic- belly breaths. This is the one I return to again and again.

And what about you?

For starters, just “catch yourself” breathing. Anywhere. Any time. 

One. Two.Three. 

Suggested Readings 

I was going to add a few links here, a TED talk there, but here an ad, there an add everywhere an ad ad, and I noticed my breathing became shallow and quick. Sort of counter productive, don’t you think? Or is it good practice? You decide.

Hypnotize Yourself- Dan Candell TEDxAuburn Middle School

https://www.kindercare.com/content-hub/articles/20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathing

Observations

In researching breathing, nearly all “helpful” resources about breathing start with the words- ‘anxiety, stress, or anger’, which consequently increases all three sensations in me.  

Breathe Free. Right now. Enjoy.