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  1. How A Character’s Breathing Reveals Their Emotion in Your Novel | How To Write the Future, Ep 217

    How A Character’s Breathing Reveals Their Emotion in Your Novel – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 217 *** Did you know the five senses play an important part in making a connection...
    The post How A Character’s Breathing Reveals Their Emotion in Your Novel | How To Write the Future, Ep 217 appeared first on Writer's Fun Zone.
    writersfunzone.com/blog/2026/0

    #HowToWritetheFutureSFFWritingPodcastWFZ #BethBarany #bodysenses #breath #breathing

  2. A small crossover study (41 participants) examined the effect of modified breathing--2 sec. inhale, 8 sec. exhale--on risk/reward decision-making. Prolonged exhalation was associated with more risk-taking. Functional MRI showed increased activity in brain regions sensitive to rewards, indicating greater reward sensitivity and no change in loss sensitivity.

    Summary: sciencealert.com/deep-breathin

    Original paper: cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896

    #Science #DecisionMaking #Breathing #RiskTaking

  3. BREATHWORK ENDS THE
    ARGUMENT WITHIN

    Not ordinary breathing.

    The body already manages that without requiring a committee meeting.

    Conscious breathing.

    The deliberate act of bringing attention into the body and remaining with the breath long enough for the noise to lose its authority.

    A slow, full in-breath.

    A long, unhurried out-breath.

    Then another.

    Nothing mystical has to happen.

    There need be no visions, revelations, sacred music, or sudden purchase of white linen.

    The breath does not have to produce bliss, wisdom, or a more impressive human being.

    It asks only for attention.

    In that way, conscious breathing has something of I need do nothing in it.

    Not passivity.

    Not collapse.

    Not giving up.

    Simply the end of interference.

    The breath is already moving.

    Life is already happening.

    The body is already here.

    For a few moments, nothing has to be improved, solved, defended, explained, or spiritually upgraded.

    When the body is cold, tight, tired, painful, or restless, there is the breath.

    When the mind begins manufacturing a grievance, rehearsing an argument, predicting disaster, or reopening a case that was never going to court, there is the breath.

    When nothing is wrong, there is the breath then too.

    That may be the most important part.

    Breathwork is not merely an emergency service called when the building is on fire.

    It can become the place one lives from.

    Over time, conscious breath creates a space where striving begins to look unnecessary.

    No philosophy is required.

    No spiritual costume.

    No certificate.

    No audience.

    No carefully arranged photograph beside a candle with a caption about surrender.

    Just the body as it is.

    Just the breath as it moves.

    Just the next slow in-breath and the next long out-breath.

    The mind may continue talking for a while.

    It usually does.

    It has concerns.

    It has evidence.

    It has brought supporting documents.

    But conscious breathing does not argue with the mind.

    It simply stops giving it the whole room.

    Thought becomes background weather.

    The body softens where it can.

    Time becomes less urgent.

    The need to control the moment begins to loosen.

    This is where breathwork and forgiveness begin to resemble one another.

    Neither changes what is real.

    Neither fights the appearance.

    Neither demands that the world behave properly before peace is allowed.

    They remove some of the interference.

    The cold remains.

    The ageing body remains.

    The noise remains.

    The ordinary morning remains.

    Nothing needs to be excluded.

    Sanctuary does not mean hiding from experience.

    It means finding the place within experience where the fight can stop.

    The world can keep shouting.

    The door has been found.

    It opens inward.

    reconnectbreath.com/

    #ARGUMENT #Conscious #breathing #committee #meeting #interference #revelations #Sanctuary #noise #forgiveness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #AI

  4. Just now (6 pm) in Parry Sound Ontario. There is no cloud cover today. 🙁

    #climatechaos #wildfiresmoke #breathing

  5. #CHARM IN THE MIRROR

    I was brushing my #teeth this morning, looking in the mirror, and suddenly saw him.

    The eternal poser.

    The little self still arranging the face, checking the #expression, preparing for an #audience that was not even there.

    Not #evil. Not #shameful.

    Just old machinery.

    Self for self, performing to a dreamed-up #crowd

    And all I could give him was:

    “Oh, there you are.”

    Then I carried on #breathing and brushing my #teeth.

    The #toothbrush was real enough.

    The #mirror was real enough.

    But the #spell in the mirror had already lost its #lustre.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum

  6. A four-week randomized study of 88 individual in two test groups and one control group evaluated the effects on heart rate variability (HRV) of controlled breathing at either a fixed rate of 0.1 Hz or the individual-specific resonance frequency (where blood pressure oscillations are maximized). Both treatments were equally effective at reducing stress, but neither produced changes in resting HRV.

    nature.com/articles/s41598-026

    #Science #Stress #HRV #Breathing

  7. Join me for a free heart-centered meditation evening in Beaune on June 20 at 6:00 PM local time at Parc de la Bouzaize 🌿

    We’ll explore simple techniques in a calm and welcoming atmosphere. The session is held in English and French translation is available.

    More information and registration via Meetup: go.cosmicnation.co/MUBeaune
    or email: [email protected]

    #Meditation #Beaune #Mindfulness #HeartCoherence #Breathing #Wellbeing #EnglishSpeaking #FreeEvent

  8. tigran @tigran@անքուն.հայ ·

    Working on Achievements for Choose Like Buddha 🌿

    I want the app to feel less like “content consumption” and more like a long-term mindful practice.

    Still designing the right balance between motivation and mindfulness.

    Here’s an early preview 👀

    chooselikebuddha.com

    #chooselikebuddha #mindfulness #breathing #buddha #meditation #indiedev #indieapp

  9. #PodcastsAudio #Breathing #GuidedMeditation A Light, Slow, Deep (LSD) Breathing Meditation: Our breathing often becomes shallow, tense, or restricted during the day, and we don’t even notice it. Try this Light, Slow, Deep breathing technique to soften, relax, and expand again.

    The post A Light, Slow, Deep (LSD) Breathing Meditation appeared first on Mindful. dlvr.it/TSNpxV

  10. This X-ray image shows our solar system 'breathing'
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    <p>The eROSITA spacecraft has built the most precise map of soft X-rays over Earth
    #breathing #erosita #system #solar

  11. I'm unsure what's going on with me at the moment... as far as I can tell however is that hayfever means that I need to use anti-histamines, which are in turn blocking my sinuses, and causing sleep disturbances including signs of low blood oxygen.

    I've been told that at night my snoring is earth shatteringly bad, and includes short periods where I am not breathing.

    #BloodOxygen #Allergies #Hayfever #Breathing #Living

  12. Dear Friends of #Peace,

    After watching the Richard Gere produced '#Wisdom of #Happiness' documentary His Holiness rant by the Dalai Lama (featuring very interesting clips of his life) and as usual practicing Deep #breathing #meditation. Guess wot?

    Me, swearing and shouting at the computer (as usual) Maybe I need tranquillisers or a holiday, as well? I must be the worst #Buddhist after Mara.

    The cause. Well the enclosed rant went well, I then exported as an .ogg file. Could I access it to upload? Took me about 5 minutes to find it. Anger arising. Engage swearing. Expletives... all calmness gone.

    Fume!

    All right back in the #zone now. #Feeling better.

    Sorry...

    :thisIsFine: :0dd_verified: :agummyhug:

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    The Oxygen Advantage

  14. Breath

    I’m gobsmacked. I’ve spent a tremendous amount of time on breath work. In the last few days, something new clicked into place for me. Hopefully, this saves someone somewhere some time on the learning curve:

    Ashtanga yoga is about breathing. You may also notice there is some movement involved in Ashtanga; Don’t be distracted by the movement! The movement is irrelevant if you haven’t discovered the importance of the breathing.

    I’ve written a lot about my personal restorative practice. Breathing and relaxing into the things I do has been an important part of it for a loong time. I cherish my 15 years of study in a style of Aikido where breath is integral to the physicality. I spent a few years regularly practicing Tai chi, and later a few years with Yinn yoga. But Ashtanga yoga never clicked for me. Sure, it’s always a great workout. But I could never really get into it as a practice. I’d bet I’ve been in hundreds of situations where someone (random warmups, movement and martial artists of every stripe, and proper yoga instructors of countless flavors) has led what has aspired to be Ashtanga yoga. Without exception, it has always been a bashing struggle for me.

    Because it’s about breathing. No two people are going to have the same breathing. Absolutely, I can imagine that at advanced physical and mental levels, people could synchronize their breathing and then they could do Ashtanga yoga in sync. But that’s not me. Not me at all.

    To be really clear: I’m not bashing on Ashtanga — nonono. I’m freakin’ excited because now I feel like …scratch that! Now I can practice Ashtanga. I look forward to it! I’m looking forward to practicing it for a while, and then finding an instructor and taking a class to get help improving. Rather than my old, “please lead me through the sequence”, I’m looking forward to, “please help me improve my sequence”. Which I’m betting will be instruction on breath, and maybe some instruction on movements too.

    ɕ

    #7ForSunday #Breathing #RestorativePractice #Yoga