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When competing goals get activated in your brain, it responds by inhibiting one of them, thus providing a goal shield. In other words, the losing goal doesn’t just get ignored—it gets completely deactivated.
Succeed
Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D. and Carol S. Dweck
The capture of the unnamed Englishman coincided with the end of Mongol penetration into Europe. They had followed the grass steppes across central Asia, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Hungary; but where the pastures ended, the Mongols stopped. With five horses per warrior, they needed that pasture to function. Their marked advantages of speed, mobility, and surprise were all lost when they had to pick their way through forests, rivers, and plowed fields with crops and ditches, hedges, and wooden fences. The soft furrows of the peasant’s field offered an insecure foothold for the horses. The place where fields began also marked the transition from the dry steppe to the humid climate of the coastal zones, where the dampness caused the Mongol bows to lose strength and accuracy.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
It’s worth noting that the lower lungs are loaded with parasympathetic nerve receptors that, when stimulated through belly breathing, help spread a sense of calm throughout the body and mind. When you chest breathe, those lovely lower-lung receptors go untouched. Chest breathing does, on the other hand, do a stellar job of triggering the sympathetic nerve receptors located in the upper part of the lungs. As a result, your fight-or-flight reaction gets switched on when it doesn’t need to be . . . sometimes 24/7. You’ll feel stressed, anxious, tired, and on edge while increasing your risk of a host of chronic diseases, including heart disease, depression, cancer, and more.
Heart Breath Mind
Leah Lagos
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