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...breath becomes mist in the chilling breeze as he heads toward the Law School quad for class on a recent afternoon...
Polls in San Francisco, where the streets are clogged with the homeless who lose the nightly lottery for limited shelter beds, indicate that homelessness is a major concern. Billboards show residents holding cardboard signs that read, I DON'T WANT TO HOLD MY BREATH PAST EVERY ALLEY. Voters last November overwhelmingly passed Proposition N, which cuts handouts from $395 a month to $59, providing food and shelter instead. The proposition was proposed by Gavin Newsom, 35, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors who describes himself as a liberal. Newsom's proposal was supported by a $1 million...
Another simple intervention I often recommend is breath work. Breath control is the most powerful method I have found to reduce anxiety, even in its most severe form of panic disorder. Conventional drugs suppress anxiety but often cause significant side effects and dependence. I have found it is impossible to be anxious while breathing deeply, slowly, quietly and regularly. By working on those qualities in your breathing, you can develop a practical technique for preventing or cutting short an anxiety attack. Breathing exercises derived from yoga are even more effective. With practice, breath work quiets down the nervous system. This...
...Breath work is a natural segue to meditation, because the simplest meditation technique is concentration on the breath. The association of meditation with Eastern religion is an obstacle for some Americans, but many nonreligious forms exist. In essence, meditation is nothing other than focused awareness. Although it can be used as a relaxation technique, I find it most valuable as a method of restructuring the mind, breaking habitual patterns of thought and creating seeds of balance to oppose erratic mood swings. Over time it can provide great mental-health benefits: relief from ordinary anxiety and depression, better rest and sleep...
Balancing atop a ladder, 72-year-old Nguyen Van Bang closes his eyes to take a deep appreciative breath. Then he plunges his hand into a vat of rotting anchovies and salt. "You see, this one is only about a week old-the fish still have their eyes and tails," he says, turning over a soupy mixture between his fingers. "But they'll all decompose soon enough, don't worry." Descending, he springs to another wooden vat and turns a valve, filling a snifter with a warm amber liquid. This is prized nuoc mam, fermented for more than a year...