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Thursday, August 16, 2018

Breathing

Well, it’s been awhile. Hope everyone’s doing well. 

You need to know (if you’re wondering why there’s nothing so little new content here) 
that I subscribed to the volunteered slavery of research. I'm loving it, but it is super
 time-consuming. One day I'll publish something helpful to society, you never know, 
something like this little piece from my friend. 

But more about me. I’m still in practice, and being fairly certain that the State of Illinois
 still demands continuing education to stay licensed, I took another course on 
Mindfulness. Naturally that led to a hack, a quick and easy way to get people to do it. 
Then, in the process of recommending that to people, I realized that my hack was 
working as well as anything that I had learned in the class. So when that happens, 
as it probably does with many of us, for sure with me, you know, I started telling 
everyone. Everyone. (It has to be boring to be my friend.)

And then I thought of you. In a word, neglected.

The original book on mindfulness and psychology, Kabat-Zinn’s Full Catastrophe Living, 
suggests, among many other things (it is a good read) 3 minutes a day of mindful breathing. 
There are different ways to do it, according to the continuing ed program, like there’s 
Lion Breathing, and Ocean Breathing. Ocean breathing is cool because you
simulate the sound of the ocean.


Anyway, I found myself copying those different breathing instructions and 
recommending them to patients— just about anyone who desperately needed to 
calm down. That would be 3/4 of my buddies.

Except they didn’t do it. Maybe they tried it once or twice. 

I said, “You don’t have to do it for 3 minutes. Do it for 30 seconds.”

Didn’t happen. Maybe one person did that. And of course it helped her, and 
she's continuing and doing much better.

I would say, this isn’t going to help you for 3-6 months, but the sooner you get onto it, 
the sooner it will help you. It will help you more than you can possibly realize. 
This I knew from personal experience. But the crazy thing was that 
I never did the 3 minutes. That could be why it took me so long, not sure. 
That would make sense.

The 3-6 month thing could be true, or could be a paradox. I might have made it up.
I didn't finish Full Catastrophe Living, truth told, it was due at the library.

But here’s the thing. That hack is helpful, and I knew that, so I tried it with patients. 
I told people— anyone who would suffer the lecture-- Don’t worry how you breathe. 
Don’t worry when or how often or for how long. Just throw it into something you do, 
your life. Concentrate, becoming aware of your breath. Do it while washing dishes, 
or standing in line at the grocery store. Do it while waiting, waiting for anything, 
a bus, an appointment. Don’t worry about technique. You breathe just fine.
You're good! Quit judging how well you do it. It’s all good! If you feel dizzy, 
make sure that your inhale and exhale are equal, say a count of 4 on each or 5, 6, 
any number, any count, and it need not be the same count. You can count 3, then 5,
 then 10, whatever. Doesn't matter. Keep it comfortable. Go with how your lungs 
are feeling. Just notice it, feel it. Feel your lungs, too.

Do it while you’re exercising, do it while you’re cooking. Do it before sleeping or 
while your boss is criticizing you. Do it in the shower, on an airplane, do it when 
you’re bored. Do it before you check your messages or email, or social media. 
Do it while you're social networking. Do it while making love. 

Take a few seconds to notice that you are doing all that it takes, the only thing 
it takes, the only requirement, for being alive. 

To life, and if we don't talk before the holidays, Happy New Year. 

therapydoc.



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2 comments:

DM said...


Good to read your update! I am still subscribed to your blog. Glad you are doing well.I for my part am also doing well, Been noticing an uptick in my inner well being, the more I intentionally give thanks for the things (big and small in my life) Look forward to hearing from you again, around the holidays (if not before) ;-) DM

August 16, 2018 at 7:27 PM
Mound Builder said...

Glad to hear from you. Glad things are going well. Breathing is good. As a person who has practiced yoga for a long time, watching one's breath is an excellent thing to do. It's portable. And not complicated. Yet there is much to observe and much to learn.

August 17, 2018 at 12:15 PM

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  • The Five Ways We Grieve
  • Children's Books, Mannies and the Waiting Room
  • Reading Real Books: Division Street Princess, Three Fallen Women
  • Holding On and Letting Go: You're Wearing That?!
  • I Confess
  • How to Talk to a Widower
  • The Waiting Room

Posts on Diagnoses

  • ADHD
  • Bi-Polar
  • Borderline
  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Jealousy
  • Borderline Personality Disorder and the DSM
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder
  • Gone Postal
  • Illness and Expressed Emotion
  • Is It Spirits or Psychosis
  • Is Poker a Game or an addiction?
  • Less Severe BPD
  • Paranoia
  • Schizophrenia
  • Schizophrenia and the Double Bind
  • That Bagel and Cream Cheese--OCD

Posts on Relationships

  • Blood is Thicker Than Water?
  • Breaking Up
  • Dependency and Sabatage
  • Falling Asleep in Shul
  • I can hear you breath
  • Intimacy and Fear of Exposure
  • It's a We Thing
  • Listening Part I
  • Listening Part II
  • Marital therapy: Changing the Pattern
  • More on Spotting a Dishonest Date
  • On Homosexuality
  • Popularity
  • Pre-dating Questions
  • Process and Mr.Saturday Night
  • Sandwiched
  • Setting Boundaries
  • Speaking in Code
  • That Catastrophic Expectation: Cut-offs
  • The 51% Rule
  • The Casual Relationship and Code
  • The Collar on the Shirt
  • The Deception Detector
  • The Illusionist, Assertiveness, and Marital Magic
  • The Work Date
  • Think It, Don't Say It
  • Using Bad Health

Posts About Songs or People

  • Bruce Ivins
  • Enrico Caruso
  • Fray: How to Save a Life
  • Take Me As I Am: Ingrid Michaelson, Frank Sinatra, and Steve Harvey

About Affection and Friendship

  • Affection Speak: Responding
  • Attached
  • I Just Called to Say
  • Part I, About affection: Engaged versus disengaged families
  • Part II About affection: Teaching kids to talk back and negotiate
  • Part III About affection: Behavioral therapy
  • Season Closers and Friendship
  • The Perfect Friend
  • When I Fall in Love

Intimacy

  • About Deception, the Big One
  • Emotional intimacy and Space
  • Every Girl's Dream
  • Fear Intimacy? Then Conflict May Work for You
  • It's His Mothe
  • Me Hating Viagra
  • Recreational Intimacy, Play With Me?
  • Sexual Intimacy
  • The Five types of Intimacy
  • The Heart Has Its Reasons
  • Work Intimacy

Posts On Children and Parenting

  • Being Three
  • Calvin & Hobbes and Reality
  • Children's Books, Mannies, and Waiting Rooms
  • Controlling your world and everyone else in it
  • Empathy, Changing the Guy
  • Gimme, gimme, gimme and Behavior Modification
  • Internet Addicts/Bloggers
  • Internet and Otherwise
  • Internet Pornography Part One
  • Internet Pornography Part Two
  • Intimate Opportunities
  • Kids Say the Darndest Things
  • Play Therapy and Jack Odell
  • The Boy with the Funny Laugh(The Bully Story)
  • The reality of lying
  • This is Love?
  • Why It's Good to Enmesh Your Children

Addictions

  • Relion and the Science of Turning it Over
  • Heroin and Being a Man
  • Poker
  • Must be Transgenerational
  • Average guy and a tree
  • 28 Days
  • He drinks, She drinks
  • Pot
  • Relationships and Recovery
  • Internet Addicts
  • Danielle Baker
  • Summertime
  • What? Candy?
  • 7-year old Kentucky Smokers
  • My Two Scents
  • Heath Ledger
  • Murphy's
  • Asserting at the Bar
  • Same DNA, Different Day

More Titles in Those Archives

  • Separating, Self, and the Anti Enmeshment Variable
  • Setting Boundaries
  • The Five types of Intimacy
  • Holiday Post I Bananas and Video Games
  • Holiday Post II Thanksgiving, Loss and Remembering
  • The Jewish New Year
  • Yom Kippur
  • Seasonal Affective Disorder-I’m Sharing about SADS
  • It Feeds On Itself
  • Assertiveness: The Anti-Depression Drug
  • Depression Varies
  • Panic!
  • Because of You-Kelly Clarkson
  • Oprah, Child Abuse, and Secondary Trauma
  • Critical Events, Snapshot Memories, and the White Sox
  • Comisky Wound, More to the story on Critical Events and the White Sox
  • Teaching children to talk back and negotiate
  • Strong, confident, sexy, and Marie Claire
  • Getting it Early
  • Denial and the Predator
  • About Affection Part One: Being Engaged or Disengaged
  • About Affection Part Two: Teaching Kids to Talk Back
  • Anti-depressants, Suicide, and Teenagers
  • Kids, divorce, and self-blame
  • Bullies, guns and a T. D. Bedtime Story
  • Murders in Our Schools
  • Deception: When kids lie
  • Evil Step-Mother Part I
  • Evil Step-Mother Part II
  • Relationships and Recovery #1 S-O
  • Pot
  • He Drinks She Drinks
  • 28 Days: Rehab
  • An Average Guy and a Tree
  • Internet and Otherwise
  • It MUST Be Transgenerational
  • Is Poker a Game or a Gamble?
  • Heroin and Being a Man
  • Religious nut? The Science Behind Turning it Over Thing
  • Co-dependent, never say no, he needs me
  • Co-dependent still, second post
  • Exceptions and another example of co-dependenc
  • Co-dependent Still
  • Co-dependency: Heroin and Being a Man
  • What do Borat, Sexual Assault, and Informed Consent Have in Common?
  • Grandchildren, Gilmore, and Lexipro
  • My Cousin Vinnie and Conflict Resolution
  • Positive Thinking, Little Miss Sunshine, and Quicksand
  • A kid and suicide: Not exactly your Prairie Home Companion
  • The Illusionist: Magic and Mind-reading-One in the Same
  • Stress Eating and Bree Vandecamp
  • Murders in Our Schools
  • Sex Therapy, Boston Legal, and Aging
  • Mark Foley and Coercion
  • Getting Out of Abusive Relationships and Teri Hatcher
  • Scoring the Poster
  • My coping strategies including opera
  • It's a We Thing
  • Me Getting Personal
  • More on Control(Jewish)
  • Intimacy-Shmintimacy
  • Why I Relate to You and Self-Disclosure
  • Speaking in Code
  • Critical Events, Snapshot Memories, and the White Sox
  • Why Men Rape
  • Sex Therapy, Boston Legal, and Aging
  • Objectification of Women
  • Mark Foley and Coercion
  • Getting Out of Abusive Relationships and Teri Hatcher
  • Use Rape Victim Advocates, PLEASE
  • Jason Fortuny and How to Traumatize a Therapist
  • Why Jason Fortuny MIGHT have done what he did
  • Dom-subdom relationships
  • Bi-polar Disorder and Public Personalities
  • Blog Her
  • Jew Eat Yet
  • Harry Potter
  • Smooth Stone
  • Survivors Can Thrive
  • Treatment of Mental and Psychological Disorders
  • Wandering Jew

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