“ You loved me the other day. You wanted me to sit beside you…Didn’t I feel it- didn’t I know? There’s something between us - a sort of pull. Something you always do to me and I to you.“
This is inspired by one of my favorite breathing techniques!
Imagine your favorite color fill you up as you breathe in. When you breathe out, imagine your least favorite color leaving you. You can also imagine unwanted memories, thoughts, or emotions instead of your least favorite color. Repeat.
I love breathing techniques so much! Video credits go to myself!
May go home tomorrow depending on how my #breathing is during physical therapy and I’m still running a low-grade temperature not feeling great now this time a day is when I start feeling bad my feeling is that I’ll go home day after tomorrow we’ll see but the nurse did my #hair and it’s nice to feel Halfway human again #happynewyear to everyone I hope like me You were greeted with #kindness and #blessings today it’s #amazing what some #humor and #hairbraids can do for a girl! #pneumonia #cancerwarrior #wheelchairbarbie https://www.instagram.com/p/BsG5YAgB9Uz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1g6fgq45hyiu6
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.” ~Isadora Duncan #thewildthing #asana #poses #yoga #backbends #quotes #dance #pranayama #breathing #bendy #yogi
Quiet time doing some #ashtanga #yoga practice to loosen up after a long train journey yesterday. Need to do something that moves me as miss my #gym. I love this shoulder stand posture as it requires concentration and it feels good at loosening my tight #shoulders, aids digestion, calms the mind, relaxes the legs, improves circulation to the brain and upper body.
“The entire universe lives in a continuous dynamism of receiving and giving, as if caught up in a process of cosmic breathing…To live the covenant means to position oneself in reality, to align oneself with reality in a constant disposition of receiving and giving…Perhaps the whole secret of life consists in receiving that which is offered to us as a gift and responding according to the precise nature of the gift received.” ~ Sofia Cavalletti [Madeline with the Offering, 1892 - Paul Serusier]
• Sofia Cavalletti was a Catholic laywoman and theologian who received a doctorate in Hebrew and Comparative Semitic Languages from La Sapienza University in Rome and who was a biblical scholar. More: https://www.cgsusa.org/discover/the-cgs-method-past/history/
• The Nabis (from the Hebrew and Arabic term for “prophets,”) were a Symbolist group founded by Paul Sérusier, who organized his friends into a secret society. Wanting to be in touch with a higher power, this group felt that the artist could serve as a “high priest” and “seer” with the power to reveal the invisible. The Nabis felt that as artists they were creators of a subjective art that was deeply rooted in the soul of the artist. While the works of the Nabis differed in subject matter from one another, they all ascribed to certain formal tenets - for example, the idea that a painting was a harmonious grouping of lines and colors. More: https://m.theartstory.org/movement/les-nabis/
WHEN INSECTS SHED THEIR EXOSKELETONS IT’S “LIKE HAVING YOUR LUNGS RIPPED OUT” By Erik Stokstad 29 August 2014 || Science/AAAS | News Reporting on the article by Camp, Funk, and Buchwalter, “A Stressful Shortness of Breath” in Freshwater Science, Vol. 33, No. 3, September 2014.
When an insect gets too big for its exoskeleton, it sheds it. This process—known as molting—might sound matter-of-fact, but it’s not. Insects stop eating, many lie still, and they become more vulnerable to predators. Now, a study of mayfly larvae has revealed another difficulty: While molting, insects can’t breathe. Alarmingly, the respiratory impairment grows more severe with higher temperatures, suggesting that climate change and other stressors could make molting an even greater challenge.
“It’s like having your lungs ripped out,” says Joseph Bernardo, an ecologist at Texas A&M University, College Station, who was not involved in the research. Although it was fairly common knowledge among entomologists that the tracheal linings come out—and likely block the trachea in the process—the impact on respiration hadn’t been measured.
IMAGE: The shed exoskeleton of a larval mayfly. The small filaments are tracheal linings. (A. A. CAMP ET AL., FRESHWATER SCIENCE, 33 (3) (2014))
