[RTO] Waiting to Exhale?
Mar. 15th, 2003 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cthulhiaNot really.
Then again, I don't do much to try and be all impressively chicky. (This may explain why I'm single. but that sounds like I'm fishing for compliments, and, while I won't turn them down, that's not what this post is about.)
She described women who have never learned how to breathe. These would be women who (1) never had voice lessons (even in high school chorus), or (2) never took a yoga class. These days every fitness class has a whole lot of inhale up, exhale down.
Breathing slowly helps you fall asleep, relax during emotional and physical stress. Hyperventilating can get you High. We knew this, right?
After 400 skips (~5 minutes) on a jump rope this afternoon I was struggling to try and breathe gently. Good practice for the race tomorrow, or something.
If the gym wasn't running a minor promo to get team points for things like 5 minutes of jumping rope, I wonder if I would've made it out of the house today. I'd been inside all day, dealing with The Eggs. Washed 5 dozen intact shells, let them drain and dry, then capped them with wax. Mixed new colors. The green is disappointing. Not even as dark as the kludged green made by "mixing" the old yellow and pale aqua colors. Doeesn't even show up on the brown eggs. The new red and black seem to be mostly ok. Must find more purple dye.
Bumped into various (LJ) friends en route. I'm not the only one without an Ides of March Toga party to attend tonight. Not sure if I'm bothered more by the idea that no one I know thought to have one, or that they did and just didn't invite me. I consoled myself with a Caesar salad instead.
So, before you move onto the next post in your friends list, take a slow deep inhale, and a slow exhale. Maybe close your eyes. Today's drivel won't be a complete waste of your neurons, if it inspires you to breathe better.
Then again, I don't do much to try and be all impressively chicky. (This may explain why I'm single. but that sounds like I'm fishing for compliments, and, while I won't turn them down, that's not what this post is about.)
She described women who have never learned how to breathe. These would be women who (1) never had voice lessons (even in high school chorus), or (2) never took a yoga class. These days every fitness class has a whole lot of inhale up, exhale down.
Breathing slowly helps you fall asleep, relax during emotional and physical stress. Hyperventilating can get you High. We knew this, right?
After 400 skips (~5 minutes) on a jump rope this afternoon I was struggling to try and breathe gently. Good practice for the race tomorrow, or something.
If the gym wasn't running a minor promo to get team points for things like 5 minutes of jumping rope, I wonder if I would've made it out of the house today. I'd been inside all day, dealing with The Eggs. Washed 5 dozen intact shells, let them drain and dry, then capped them with wax. Mixed new colors. The green is disappointing. Not even as dark as the kludged green made by "mixing" the old yellow and pale aqua colors. Doeesn't even show up on the brown eggs. The new red and black seem to be mostly ok. Must find more purple dye.
Bumped into various (LJ) friends en route. I'm not the only one without an Ides of March Toga party to attend tonight. Not sure if I'm bothered more by the idea that no one I know thought to have one, or that they did and just didn't invite me. I consoled myself with a Caesar salad instead.
So, before you move onto the next post in your friends list, take a slow deep inhale, and a slow exhale. Maybe close your eyes. Today's drivel won't be a complete waste of your neurons, if it inspires you to breathe better.
