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How one hour of slow breathing changed my life
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2410" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/26/every-breath-you-take-the-lost-art-of-breathing" target="_blank"><strong>How one hour of slow breathing changed my life - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>An introductory breathing class fixed my sleep and left me calmer than ever. It took me years to find out why </strong></p><p></p><p>The place looked like something out of an old horror film: all paint-chipped walls, dusty windows, and menacing shadows cast by moonlight. I walked through a gate, up a flight of creaking steps, and knocked on the door.</p><p></p><p>When it swung open, a woman in her 30s with woolly eyebrows and oversize white teeth welcomed me inside. She asked me to take off my shoes, then led me to a cavernous living room, its ceiling painted sky blue with wispy clouds. I took a seat beside a window that rattled in the breeze and watched through jaundiced streetlight as others walked in. A guy with prisoner eyes. A blonde woman with an off-centre bindi on her forehead.</p><p></p><p>I’d come here on the recommendation of my doctor, who’d told me: “A breathing class could help.” It could help strengthen my failing lungs, calm my frazzled mind, maybe give me perspective.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2410, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/26/every-breath-you-take-the-lost-art-of-breathing'][B]How one hour of slow breathing changed my life - The Guardian[/B][/URL] [B]An introductory breathing class fixed my sleep and left me calmer than ever. It took me years to find out why [/B] The place looked like something out of an old horror film: all paint-chipped walls, dusty windows, and menacing shadows cast by moonlight. I walked through a gate, up a flight of creaking steps, and knocked on the door. When it swung open, a woman in her 30s with woolly eyebrows and oversize white teeth welcomed me inside. She asked me to take off my shoes, then led me to a cavernous living room, its ceiling painted sky blue with wispy clouds. I took a seat beside a window that rattled in the breeze and watched through jaundiced streetlight as others walked in. A guy with prisoner eyes. A blonde woman with an off-centre bindi on her forehead. I’d come here on the recommendation of my doctor, who’d told me: “A breathing class could help.” It could help strengthen my failing lungs, calm my frazzled mind, maybe give me perspective. [/QUOTE]
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