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"Suddenly, I have the awkward realization that my body in bed is having a hard time breathing (even though I continue to see the lucid dream imagery of the green hills). While my conscious awareness is admiring a grassy spot in a lucid dream, I try to feel the breathing obstruction. With this bifocal awareness, I gently put some mental energy into making my physical head move up and away from the bed sheets or pillow while concentrating on remaining in the lucid dream. This seems to work. But finally, I decide to wake into physical reality and determine what is hampering my breathing." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"Because our first reaction is to unconsciously hold our breath and breathe shallowly, deep breathing exercises are an excellent stress management tool. breathing deeply brings more oxygen to our tissues while waste products are excreted. It slows us down, so we feel more balanced and centered and can make clearer decisions. Deep abdominal breathing is something you can do anywhere, and no one can tell! Abdominal breathing Exercise Take ten deep breaths through your nose. As you inhale, feel your belly expand; feel the inhalation spread until it fills your lungs to the top." - Elizabeth Lipski, Digestive Wellness: How to Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion (Get the book.)

"A common meditation practice involves attending to your breathing: focusing attention on the rhythm of your breathing; on the shallowness or the deepness of your inhaling and your exhaling; becoming mindful of how you can breathe joyfully versus how you can breathe joylessly; and noticing mental activities that are associated with less satisfying breathing. Meditation also can be about posture: one way to have a healthy posture is to attempt, at the same time, to have the top of your head touch the sky while your chin moves toward the earth." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Deep, rhythmic breathing has many benefits in this process. Conscious breathing focuses a person on his or her inner core. It relaxes the body and the mind. The act of breathing helps create resonance and coherence, awakens self-healing and opens the creative portal. It's an act of harmony and balance. Concentrate for a few minutes on feeling the breath go in, permeating your lungs and finding its home in your diaphragm. Then slowly release it. Let's begin now visualizing your energy." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"A common meditation practice involves attending to your breathing: focusing attention on the rhythm of your breathing; on the shallowness or the deepness of your inhaling and your exhaling; becoming mindful of how you can breathe joyfully versus how you can breathe joylessly; and noticing mental activities that are associated with less satisfying breathing. Meditation also can be about posture: one way to have a healthy posture is to attempt, at the same time, to have the top of your head touch the sky while your chin moves toward the earth." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Breathing problems can be caused by infections, inflammation, allergies, smoking, and environmental pollution. The organs involved in breathing make up the respiratory system and include the nose, throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs. Adaptogens for Healthy Breathing Most adaptogens do not have specific effects on the respiratory system, but some do provide specific benefits. Adaptogens can decrease respiratory demands during physical activity and decrease stress-induced shortness of breath and many inhibit allergies and allergic asthma. 5k." - David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.)

"On very rare occasions, metformin has been linked to a condition called lactic acidosis, which is characterized by unusual fatigue or severe drowsiness, muscle pain, breathing difficulties, irregular or unusually slow heartbeat, and cold skin." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"If this congestion persists for years, it can even result in the appearance of a long face, and occasionally a warped palate, due to constant open-mouth breathing. These signs of chronic allergy are so obvious that I'm always surprised when doctors and patients fail to recognize them. In Hugo's case, not one of his doctors had ordered any allergy testing. Even if conventional allergists had tested Hugo, though, they might have missed some of his most virulent allergies. Allergies frequently remain undiagnosed, for several reasons." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The point is, make sure you get aerobic three times a week; monitoring your heart rate or breathing to see that you're getting aerobic benefits. It takes at least 12 minutes at an aerobic rate to reap the benefits of increased lean muscle mass and improved cardiovascular fitness. And if you want to lose weight and keep it off, you have to crank it up to at least 45 minutes of moderately intense aerobic exercise three or more times a week to build enough muscle mass to lower your set point." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Following nearly two weeks of acclimating to altitudes as high as 16,000 feet above sea level, breathing the thick road dust that our ancient bus sucked into its ventilation system, and enduring 14-hour days of having our bodies bounced along roads that were little more than washed-out Jeep trails, I found my beliefs being tested in a way that I'd never expected. We'd just arrived at a dilapidated monastery that was now occupied by a group of around 100 nuns. While we were sitting among them finishing a heartfelt sharing of sacred chants, the peace of the dimly lit room was suddenly shattered." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "Although it was really only an atomized saline solution, almost half of the participants developed breathing problems, with some experiencing a full-blown asthma attack! When they were told that they were being treated with another, healing substance, they recovered immediately. In reality, however, the new treatment was only saline in water as well." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"The fight-or-flight response involves a host of bodily changes triggered by a surge in adrenaline and Cortisol levels that impact blood pressure, breathing rate, muscle tension, and heart rate, as well as a slowdown in the activity of the gastrointestinal tract (intestines, stomach). Your body also increases blood sugar levels so you will have the energy to "escape" your dangerous situation." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "PANIC, ANXIETY, AND DIABETES According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about six million American adults have panic disorder, which is characterized by episodes involving overwhelming fear or anxiety, rapid heartbeat and/or breathing, trembling, profuse sweating, and feeling like you are going to die. Panic attacks occur twice as often in women as in men and are often accompanied by other serious conditions, including depression." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Your kids will probably fall all over their beloved friend, hugging and kissing it, rubbing their faces into the animal's fur and breathing in all those toxins from the chemical shampoos. Ask your groomer to stop using toxic products on your pet. If he refuses, find another groomer. Or better yet, just bathe your animal at home. Don't think of it as a chore, but as a fun project that the whole family can conquer as a team." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The investigators found that compared with controls, patients who practiced stress-management skills (progressive muscle relaxation, breathing therapy, imagery) had a 0.5 percent reduction in Hb A levels, which is associated with a significant reduction in the risk of microvascular complications, such as retinopathy. However, the reduction in Hb Alc was 1 percent or greater in 32 percent of the treated patients, compared with only 12 percent of the controls. Yoga In recent years, yoga has shed its "mystical" or "new-age" label and become a mainstream practice across the United States." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"I teach many of my patients an easy, five-minute breathing exercise they can practice at home. Turn off the TV, unplug the video games, and enjoy some quiet time; that's my prescription for a well-balanced start to the school year." By the time your kids are in junior high, these relaxation techniques—just like the work ethic—should be long established in your household, because the pace of your kids' lives isn't going to slow down as they get older. On the contrary: Every year, their lives will only get more complicated and stressful." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"When she arrived in my office, her breathing was labored and she was short of breath. Her energy level was completely depleted, and she had a haunted look in her eyes when she said one thing to me: she needed a miracle. Although coenzyme Qio had been a literal lifesaver for Helen up to that point, it was clear that she now needed something else to provide that extra "spark" and help her come alive again. Her body required something even more powerful to battle the severity of her heart problems and the ravages of advancing age." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"There are three exposure routes: 1. breathing (also called inhalation) 2. Eating or drinking (also called ingestion) 3. Skin (or dermal) contact. Safety factor: Also called the "uncertainty factor." When scientists don't have enough information to decide if an exposure will cause harm to people, they use "safety factors" and formulas in place of the unknown information. These factors and formulas can help determine the amount of a chemical that is not likely to cause harm to people. Source (of contamination): The place where a chemical comes from, such as a landfill, pond, or incinerator." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Seifert described the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study conducted with athletes who exercised while breathing 16 percent oxygen to cause muscle hypoxia. The results of this study showed that there was a significant decrease in biological markers of free-radical formation when athletes were supplemented with ribose before and after hypoxic exercise. In addition, athletes given ribose experienced a lower heart rate while performing a set amount of work on a cycle ergometer than when they were given placebo." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"HBOT consists of placing a patient in an airtight chamber, and then increasing the air pressure, generally while the patient is breathing pure oxygen. In milder forms of the procedure, concentrated oxygen may be used. The experience of mildly increased air pressure is usually not uncomfortable and is similar to the air pressure increases that occur while flying on airplanes. However, pressure-related trauma to the middle ear is the most common side effect of HBOT, but is minimal in the milder forms of the procedure." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Around the time he turned two, though, Hugo caught an infection that he just couldn't kick, even with his standard antibiotics. His breathing turned gurgly, and his chest and face stayed hot and wet with sweat night and day. At the same time, he developed a viral skin infection called parvovirus B-19, or Fifth Disease, that streaked his cheeks and chest with a red rash. Ron and his wife, Adah, took Hugo to the doctor for more diagnostics. They got bad news. Hugo's white blood count, indicating his degree of infection, was an off-the-charts 37,000. Time for the hospital." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Now the doctor was saying that Loukas, who'd suddenly begun to wheeze, had to check into the hospital —now. "Breathing problems in babies are like chest pains in adults," the doctor said. "You can't wait around." With her fear mounting by the moment, Peggy looked down at Loukas, just ten months old, as he struggled to push away the nebulizer mask that the doctor had placed on his face. It wasn't helping him. He was still wheezing, and his chest was retracting spasmodically, as he fought to force air into his inflamed lungs." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"A serious, often life-threatening allergic reaction that is characterized by low blood pressure, shock and difficulty breathing." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"They are a living, breathing, dynamic organ, not a static system of tubes and pipes. We are most concerned with the innermost layer of the wall known as the endothelium. The blood meets the vessel walls at the endothelium. Though only one cell thick, this permeable lining carries out critical Smooth' muscle cells The endothelial lining Endothelial cells Adventitia Lumen molecular exchanges between the blood-borne contents floating through the lumen and the smooth muscle and adventitial tissues behind it that form the bulk and structure of the arteries." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Inhalation: breathing. Inhalation is one of three ways a chemical can enter your body. (See also Route of exposure.) LOAEL (lowest observed adverse effect level): The lowest dose of a chemical in a study, or group of studies, that has caused harmful health effects in people or animals. MRL (minimal risk level): An estimate of daily human exposure—by a specified route and length of time—to a dose of chemical that is likely to be without a measurable risk of adverse, noncancerous effects. An MRL should not be used as a predictor of adverse health effects." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"When a person is simply standing still, his or her breathing and beating heart will produce electrostatic energy of 10-15 millivolts on the EEG amplifiers; during activities requiring focused attention, such as meditation, the energy will surge up to 3 volts. During healing, however, Green's healers produced voltage surges up to 190 volts; one healer produced 15 such surges, which were 100,000 times higher than normal, with smaller pulses of 1-5 volts appearing on each of the four copper walls." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Although ordinary participants had expected electrical readings related to breathing or heartbeat, the healers were generating electrical surges higher than 60 volts during healing sessions, as measured by electrometers placed on the healers themselves and on all four walls. Video recordings of the healers showed these voltage surges had nothing to do with physical movement.2' Studies of the nature of the healing energy of Chinese Qigong masters have provided evidence of the presence of photon emission and electromagnetic fields during healing sessions." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "Schmidt had studies where he'd tried to affect his own prerecorded breathing rate. All told, ten of the nineteen studies showed effects significantly different from chance ?enough to indicate that something out of the ordinary was going on here.'8 It was results like these that most troubled Hal Puthoff. The type of zero-point energy he was most familiar with was electromagnetic: a world of cause and effect, of order, of certain laws and limits ?in this case, the speed of light. Things did not go backward or forward in time. This body of experiments suggested three possible scenarios to him." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "Studies on humans had shown that one set of people could successfully affect the eye or gross motor movements, breathing and even the brain rhythms of another set. The effects were small, but they occurred consistently and had been achieved by ordinary people who had been recruited to try out this ability for the very first time. Overall, according to Schlitz and Braud's meta-analysis, the studies had a success rate of 37 per cent against the expected result of 5 per cent by chance." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

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