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deep breathing

  1. Nord Wolf

    Breathing Exercises

    We all know how important breathing is, obviously. I’ve been practicing breathing exercises since I was a kid, over 40 years ago. That was when I started to learn them from my martial arts masters. Over the decades I learned more and more, and taught many of them to students through the...
  2. MarkRichardson

    Talking and deep breathing are harder then typing

    Does anyone else find it less energy consuming to type as opposed to talking? I’m often down to nods and shakes of the head now when communicating in person but can type a paragraph with more ease. It’s a different issue from cognition as it doesn’t necessarily co-incident with brain fog - I...