UpBeat Living: Your Perfect Breath

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Acidosis, breath, exhale, pH balance, stress, UpBeat Living

© 2014 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

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How many times have you been asked to “take a deep breath now”?  I remember being asked to take a deep breath absolutely every time I have ever had a physical.  The doctors always have asked for a deep breath, to expand the lungs, so they can hear various sounds that may be good or not so good.  But wait!  I have different advice!

Hands up, everyone who is currently breathing!  Oh good.  You brought your breath with you.  Breath allows life.  And if you’ve ever held your breath too long, you know you don’t feel well or think well.

About 6 times per minute, we breathe in oxygen, which is distributed into little collectors in the lungs, where the air and the blood actually meet, across a respiratory membrane.  The oxygen, from the air you’ve inhaled, goes into the blood, and the carbon dioxide comes out of the blood, into the breath.  And we breathe out carbon dioxide.  Then it takes only seconds for the oxygen you’ve inhaled to start circulating to the brain and body, through the blood system.  The oxygen/carbon dioxide balance is crucial to your body chemistry. It maintains your acid/base balance.  So this matters WHY?

This matters because you can only inhale, and get that good oxygen, if there is room in your lungs.  So exhale first.   Here’s a way to get a perfect exhale:  sing “ha” on any note you choose, and keep going until you completely run out of breath.  At the end of your breath, you’ll naturally gasp, quickly taking in a wonderful gulp of new air.  Terrific!  And how much did you take in?  That full exhalation emptied the bottoms of your lungs, pushing out all that stale urban air and pollution you don’t usually get to, in normal breathing.  Now when you inhale, you are inhaling into much more space, and you’ll get much more oxygen.

In about 30 seconds after you force the exhale and allow the gasp, you’ll notice a rush up the back of your head.  This is oxygen!  The stranger it feels, the more stale air you know you were storing in your lungs.  And now your brain and body are working much better.  You can think more clearly now, and all systems are more vital. This trick is absolutely free and the equipment is always with you.  So don’t take the regular advice!  Exhale first, for your perfect breath and health.

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● Kebba Buckley Button is the author of the 2013 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core (Second Edition).   Keep this book with you constantly, to quickly recharge your Peace Within, with quotes, photos, and poems that take you directly there!  Kebba is a corporate stress management trainer, and she also has a holistic healing practice.

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UpBeat Living: What To Do When There’s Nothing You Can Do About That

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at choice, Dealing with stress, detachment, Effective living, exhale, living beyond, peace within, personal peace, Releasing, stress, Stress Management, trading stress for energy, UpBeat Living

© 2013 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

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From time to time, we are stuck in, or we see, a situation that is ridiculous, absurd, and not right.  We feel stressed and anxious.  We may feel frustrated, even to the point of having a tight stomach, a headache, or knots in our back, because there is nothing we can do.  Here are several examples.

A TV show tells the story of a house that disappeared overnight.  The husband came home and found his house missing– a site-built home, not a mobile home.  It evolved that there was an inheritance dispute. Do you feel stressed, hearing about this? Yet there is nothing the observer can do about it.

In a famous story, a family hired architect Frank Lloyd Wright to build a home for them adjacent to their favorite wooded picnic spot, a flat rock at the edge of a stream, with its own waterfall.  The family wanted to easily access their favorite picnic spot and eat there more often. The architect decided he wanted to build the rock and waterfall into the home, so the family lost their favorite outdoor picnic spot.  In addition, according to their son, “you can’t really live in such a house”.  So they lost their picnic spot, spent massive funds, were unable to live in the house, and made an architect famous for “The House at Fallingwater”.  The house became a museum.  Do you feel frustrated or angry when you think about this?  Yet there is nothing the observer can do about it.

In the news this week from Wisconsin, a video bubbled up that portrays several men trapping a deer, wrestling with it to put a yellow t-shirt on it, and laughing.  The deer escaped and has been seen since, still wearing a portion of the yellow t-shirt.  Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources advises that the deer looks healthy and should be left alone.  Watching the video, a friend was reminded of human sexual assault, and she imagined how the three men treat the women in their lives, then laugh.  My friend feels very disturbed by this story and the behavior of the three men.  Do you?  And yet, there is nothing the observer can do about it.

The stock market is acting squirrelly, the US border with Mexico is not secure, North Korea may launch missiles at another country, another abused child has disappeared.  Yet there is nothing the observer can do about it.

But wait!  Yes, the observer/you can do three things:

1. Pray or hold Go(o)d Thoughts, even if the event seems to be over.
2.  Detach, exhale, drop your shoulders, and turn your attention away.  Relax physically, and don’t allow yourself to go over and over the sequence.  No obsessing.  If the bad thoughts come back again, exhale each time.
3.  Focus on what is good, uplifting, and meaningful to you.  This will cause the lower thoughts to be displaced, and your energy level will begin to rise immediately.

Phillipians4:8 advises us:

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

What to do when there’s nothing you can do?  Pray, hold Good Thoughts, and let it go.  And get on with your life.

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