ONE BREATH FOR ONE HUMAN PROJECT

22,000- 26,000 times per day, you use your breathing muscles.

~One Act of INSPiRATION~

Teach yourself.
Teach your book club.
Teach your soccer team.
Teach your business network.
Teach your classmates.
Teach your partner.
Teach your child.

(1 - 30% of our children have asthma (World Health Org statistic)
How can they learn if they can't breathe?)


Ten Steps to Breathing
1. Put your hands on your hips like someone scolding. Thumb to the back.

2. Now, flip the hands around so the thumb faces the navel.

3. The surface of the thumb and the index finger are along the ilium (hip bone).

4. Press the palms up flat against the back. (Good stretch by the way.)

5. The baby finger will be on the 12th rib. (You have 12 on each side; this one is little.)

6. The longest or middle fingers will be touching each side of the spine.

7. Inhale into the palms. It might take practice for someone to feel their back expanding.

8. Exhale from your abdominals. Feel your belly contract and flatten by exhaling. Exaggerate that on the longer exhales.

9. Once you get the feeling of the soft tissue of your back expanding, then keep the expansion of the back muscles into your hands, even during the exhale.

10. Now you are in place:

Inhale for 4 counts, exhale for 4 counts. Do that again.

Then inhale for 4 counts and exhale for 6. Do THAT again.

Then inhale for 4 and exhale for 8, 10, 12, each a progressively longer exhale.

Until you run out of air and MUST breathe.



~ONE BREATH FOR ONE HUMAN PROJECT~

Trigger your instinctive inhale.
Breathe to the lowest richest lobes of the lungs.
Stop starving your mind and body of breath.

Breathe.
Teach someone else.
We've got to stop waiting for someone else to fix it and do it ourselves.

NEXT:
ACT TWO, Your SIDEKICKS.
To improve walking, running and sitting.
To get your power from your center, not your neck.