Simple enough. We do it everyday, normally somewhere around 23,040 times.
In and out, in and out, sometimes we even forget we are doing it, that is until we stop and realize we are “out of breath” and need to start again.
Just like many other things in life, something that we often take for granted.
So, this week’s homework is to experience our breathing for 3 minutes each day.
Here’s what we are going to do:
Get a normal sized straw. By ‘normal’, I mean an ordinary everyday straw that you used to drink a milkshake through (before you stopped that disgusting habit, of course).
Not one of those crazy big straws that you get with the Bubble Tea down at Uwajimaya, and not one of those cute skinny straws that you get two of in your Roy Rogers or Shirley Temple at the Spaghetti Factory. Just an ordinary ‘normal’ plastic straw.
I will have a box of them at my office on Monday for anyone who doesn’t have easy access to getting one.
Now, take the straw and cut it off about 3 inches long.
And for 3 minutes, once per day, every day this week, breathe through that 3” now mini straw.
Doesn’t matter when each day, and doesn’t matter if you want to try this more than once per day.
But you must do this continuously for 3 minutes each day.
Sitting in traffic might be a good time, or sitting down taking care of any type of business might also be a good time.
Have a great week,
MRoss
P.S.
I was given a disgusting package of Peeps (as a joke, of course)... And the comment was made that they are ‘gluten free’.
Phew! Am I relieved...
Anyway, I looked at the ingredients and recognized a name that I had just seen in my garage.
I took a couple photos of the Peeps and the other place I had seen the ingredient “Carnauba Wax’ and combined them together and included them here.
We all know how horrible Peeps are for us, but this is just plain silly that anyone would eat an ingredient that most people use on their car...
Luckily, they only contain ‘less than 0.5%’ according to the label.
How much is necessary to render Peeps inedible?
How much is necessary to be unhealthy or deadly?
If there was Heroin, yet ‘less than 0.5%’, would we still eat them?
Don’t even get me started on tartrazine (start with a Wikipedia search) or natural flavors....
