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U.S. senator John Tunney, the son of famed boxer Gene Tunney, was a member of that subcommittee. Bradley remembers going to Tunney’s office to lobby him, while Tunney sat there with a hammer, breaking hard candy as they talked. He told a Hollywood writer friend, Jeremy Larner. It ended up in a Larner movie, Robert Redford’s The Candidate. Bradley said Tunney told them his father had never been able to end restrictive agreements with promoters and managers and lost all his money from his famous fights with Jack Dempsey. He said he would oppose the merger.
I thought I would die at forty-one, when I had a bad fall and broke a leg while mountaineering alone. I splinted the leg as best I could and started to lever myself down the mountain, clumsily, with my arms. In the long hours that followed, I was assailed by memories, both good and bad. Most were in a mode of gratitude—gratitude for what I had been given by others, gratitude too that I had been able to give something back. Awakenings, my second book, had been published the previous year.
A case report published in the journal Biofeedback detailed the experience of a 21-year-old woman with severe IBS. Diagnosed in her teens, she suffered excessive weight loss and depression. Her doctor told her it was incurable and offered morphine as her consolation prize. Lying in her hospital bed one day, she started scrolling on her phone and happened upon a link to something called diaphragmatic breathing. She tried it immediately. “While practicing, she could feel her stomach and abdomen becoming warmer,” the researchers wrote—a sign that she was switching from fight-or-flight mode to rest-and-digest and increasing blood flow throughout her body. She cried tears of joyful surprise. This was the first time she’d been pain-free in years. The authors report that the patient ultimately experienced a near-disappearance of IBS symptoms with continued practice.
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