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Here’s what is happening inside your body: you are teaching your heart to feel stress . . . and let it go. If you were connected to my biofeedback equipment as you did this, you would see your heart rate accelerating on the inhale and decelerating by approximately the same magnitude on the exhale. Your body comes right back to where it began with every breath. That’s the physiological effect of feeling and letting go. Contrast that with what it would look like if you were a chronically stressed client hooked up to my equipment, breathing normally, with no pacing or purposeful re-creation of stress. The heart rate may accelerate on the inhale, but it would decelerate just a fraction of what it should on the exhale. In some situations, you may get stuck at the top of the inhale, plateauing instead of decelerating. That is an incomplete exhale, which prevents the braking of fight-or-flight response—the opposite of resilience.
Heart Breath Mind
Leah Lagos
In a great memoir, some aspect of the writer’s struggle for self often serves as the book’s organizing principle, and the narrator’s battle to become whole rages over the book’s trajectory.
The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr
After painstakingly collecting this data, my graduate student and I discovered that people in workplaces averaged only three minutes, five seconds on any low-level event on or off screen before switching to the next one.8 This included interactions with colleagues. But if we just looked at attention behavior on the computer, we found that people shifted their attention on average every two and a half minutes. Switching all activities every three minutes and specifically switching attention on the computer every two and a half minutes seemed unfathomable at the time. But this was nothing compared to what was to be discovered in the next decade and a half to come.
Attention Span
Gloria Mark
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