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Breathing
The human body is remarkably adaptive and resilient. Human beings can survive for many weeks without food, and for several days without water, but without air, life ceases in only a matter of minutes. The fact is that every cell in the organism requires a continuous charge of oxygen in order to carry out its assigned function. The job of breathing is to supply this energy to the bloodstream, but since it has been happening automatically for every moment of your life, you've probably given very little attention to it. Yet without it, everything stops.
When the air is clear, your lungs strong, your body relaxed, and your mind at peace, you experience total wellbeing. Unfortunately, this ideal is seldom realized. In the language of the Wellness Energy System, the input source, the air, may be polluted in some way. Or perhaps there just isn't enough of it available. High altitude climbers must carry their own oxygen, or risk light-headedness and even death around 24,000 feet. Being in an overcrowded room without proper ventilation will have a similar effect. The channel (which is you) may have breakages (poorly functioning organs, illness, accident), or be blocked by foreign objects, by the restriction of muscles created from emotions such as fear, anger, and grief, by tight clothing, or by chronically poor posture. The poisons of nicotine and tar accumulated in lung tissues may also contaminate it.
This section looks at how these factors affect your output--or general metabolism. Your ability to work, play, and communicate with others depends upon how effectively your energy is used.
Breathing is the 2nd of the 12 dimensions of wellness in the Wellness Inventory.
See the wellness wheel below which represents the Wellness Energy System.
The Wellness Inventory is a holistic assessment and life-balance program designed to help you gain personal insight into your state of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. The program offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into sustainable lifestyle change, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing.
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