Breath of Life
Slow down you breathe too fast.......
If you ask your interweb grandma to do a search on “bronchial tree” and look at the images found, you will see something revealed by modern technology that looks very familiar. Your lungs look like trees, and they function like trees to sustain life. Humans and trees have a connection that was well understood by all ancient cultures way before x-rays gave us the ability to more closely see that there is a tree of life inside of us that is sustaining us. If you’re not too squeamish, look up this one- ‘Man Coughs Up a Giant Blood Clot in the Shape of His Lung’ and you will see the picture of a blood clot, that a man really coughed up, which was in the shape of his bronchial tree, a bronchial cast, the result of a pathological process that resulted in a medical intervention that caused another medical problem because breathing is important.
”The faster we breathe, the lower our oxygen levels, and the more our cells suffer from hypoxia (reduced cell oxygenation).” ~Dr. Sircus, Breathing to Live Longer
We are like trees, people long ago knew this, we seem to forget this even though trees are all around us to see. In the fall, trees drop their leaves on our well-manicured and artificially fertilized lawns, and we rake them up and dispose of them because we don’t understand that this is how trees nourish themselves, it’s a part of their circle of life. We see our bodies as mechanical machines, rather than as trees, that must be entrusted to our medical industrial experts in the same way that we drop our cars off to be worked on by our mechanic. Grandma had home remedies that we’ve forgotten. And since agriculture is now a technology, another form of machine mechanics, we have to look to those experts to tell us about how trees work rather than listen to our grandfathers tell us about how trees live. Perhaps science is just a refinement of ancient common-sense thinking which is a twist on something Einstein once said about science being nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
It seems as though the experts have tried to convince us, by using fear tactics, that we are ignorant and feeble and incapable of taking care of ourselves, and in many ways, they have made it so by complicating everything to the point that we really can’t anymore. They have created a dependency conundrum that is so bad that we recently shut down our entire planet in order to keep it (modern medicine) from collapsing out from under itself. I’m all for modern medicine in certain cases, mostly for emergencies, but not for the things that we can do for ourselves. Our understanding of humans as machines is why medical costs keep rising to the point that healthcare has become unaffordable, even if you have health insurance. I think we need to get our stolen confidence back.
One of the problems of living as if you are a machine, is that you start to breathe as if you are a machine, but you are not a machine. You are like a tree, a living breathing organism, and there are some things we can do to help us remember how to breathe like babies do, with their bellies. Sick people breathe too fast, so I’m going to drop some links here for you to explore, things to consider adding to *your own health care protocol-
Breathing is crucial for keeping us alive. It is also vital for health recovery. Saying it’s important is an understatement because it is impossible to be or stay healthy and breathe too fast. So I tell my patients that their next breath is the most crucial thing in life. If you don’t take it, you’re dead in minutes, so how you take that next breath and how you breathe is more than important.
I also tell my cancer patients that the best way you can prove to yourself and your loved ones that you want to live and that you want to beat your cancer is to spend more and more time devoted to taming your breathing.
Recommended reading-Breathing to Live Longer (drsircus.com)
Video Resources for Breathing Health:
Breathing and Health - YouTube
Frolov's Respiratory Training Device (Breathslim) - YouTube
Tired Contractor Here’s My Simple, CHEAP Sleep Apnea Solution - YouTube
DIY Sleep Apnea Fix Update: What We’ve Learned - YouTube
Myotape for Adults taping to ensure nasal breathing during sleep
Myotape - Buteyko Clinic
What is the Buteyko Method? - Buteyko Clinic
Mouth Taping Safe Magnetic click technique (hummingmask.nl)
Dr. Teitelbaum on Sleep and Nasal Congestion
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Now that we have the mechanics out of the way, we can get back to the trees because you are like a beautiful, precious tree, a living being, not a machine, and in the trees is the breath of life connection. The tree of life has roots that reach down into the underworld, a trunk that sits on the earth, and branches that reach right up into the heavens so that the stars encircle them like a crown. The feel and the sound of the breeze moving through the leaves of the quaking aspen trees can be felt deep down in your soul. Maybe that’s why dad likes to paint them so much? If you’ve never felt it, I can only try to help you do it from here and that’s not quite the same as experiencing it for yourself, but you can imagine it, or go there and participate in something real sometime- the tree of life connection, the sustaining breath of life.
(1) Introducing Pando Populus - YouTube
Pando, the Trembling Giant – Richfield, Utah - Atlas Obscura
Lovely the way you’ve used the tree to connect to breath.