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Because I wanted to shut up the now-nagging voice and I also wanted to put off looking for a job, I grabbed my house keys, shoved on the boots, and for some reason picked up my wallet and clomped down the stairs. But what else? Marie Kondo implores readers to ask if every item they own sparks joy in their lives. If the answer is no, toss it. It's just so much easier said than done. We ask ourselves if old grudges serve us. Old habits. Dear heavens, no! But they seem stuck to us like leeches. We learned a method prevalent in recovery: we note our resentments in detail, figure out the parties and dynamics involved, and then ultimately work to see our role in the situation. For some reason, that last bit is the golden key, unlocking the chain. When she asked management about this alleged lack of staff they told her the staffing numbers had not changed at all. She then asked the supervisors and discovered that, while the total staffing numbers had not changed, the number of permanent staff had. This meant far less of the staff could access all the areas of the tarmac and storage sheds (as only permanent staff were permitted due to access restrictions ). The casual workforce needed supervision, which placed further pressure on the permanent staff. It was not a lack of staff, but a lack of permanent staff combined with a system that people believed was rigid and airport imposed when, in truth, it wasn't at all. It required more staff with appropriate access, coupled with addressing the scheduling pressures and communication issues. This is understanding in action and you can see why it matters. Data alone could not solve the problem the freight handlers faced. The data was too raw, too singular.

Natassia created a solution with multiple inputs. Syncing up with the rhythms and cycles of nature through our breath is incredibly replenishing and restorative to our well-being on all levels. Two of my favorite ways to practice in nature are with my back against a tree, which immediately anchors my body, or lying on the natural ground, the grass or a sandy beach. Journaling is an ideal way to track your practice, keep notes on what you're discovering, and be able to see how far you have come over time. Creating a dedicated breathwork journal and writing down a few sentences about each practice session deepens your personal work and creates richer practice experiences. There are many ways to record information these days, and while I am a fan of using note apps and voice notes, the act of writing helps the brain and body sync up, which helps you to integrate what you're learning in your sessions. Keep it simple with the journal. After your breathwork session at home, write down a few sentences or notes about your experience, what came up, something new that you learned or felt, a creative idea that popped up, an intuitive hit you received, a pattern that you recognized, or a new layer of work that you want to explore. Sometimes in sessions so much comes up that it can be tempting to stop the session to write things down. Over the years I've learned that it's better to keep the flow of the session going and to trust that if you're meant to remember it, you will at the end. If your journal is portable, it can be great to take it with you when you leave the house so that you can track what's happening with your breath throughout the day. I read every article that had a horse, pony, or donkey on the cover, including the Black Stallion series, Brighty of the Grand Canyon, Misty of Chincoteague, the Flicka trilogy, The Horsemasters, Black Beauty, Smoky the Cowhorse, anything illustrated by the famous Paul Brown, and the greatest of them all, National Velvet, written at a higher level than most animal articles. I also read dog and cat articles, including The Cat Who Went to Heaven, The Call of the Wild, Lassie Come Home, and Navarre of the North while avoiding anything in which there were no animals. To this day I have never read a Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew mystery. English writers were my favorites because the human protagonist was likelier to be a girl. The beauty of National Velvet is that the hero is a fourteen-year-old who makes her own dream come true (she acquires a horse) and then goes on to become a champion (winning the world's most grueling horse race, the Grand National). Although the premise is fantasy, the narrative is rich with realistic detail. It is still one of my favorite novels. Like many horse lovers, I wanted to be a veterinarian when I was young, until I found out that veterinarians' schedules allow them little flexibility. I know several who own horses, but none ever has time to ride.

Nor do they have time to write. My body screamed, Turn back. The promise of a fix of something fattening and sugary must have flooded my brain with endorphins because I flew down the stairs and made it to the mailboxes in record time. For once, it was a beautiful day in Seattle. The sun had come out momentarily, and although it was still drizzling, little warm rays hit my back, promising a hint of spring. I stretched, turning my pale face upward, breathing deeply, the heavy, achy cloud of despair withdrawing a teeny-tiny bit. As I looked around, small bright-green and yellow and pink buds everywhere copied me, reaching hard for that teasing warmth of a small sunshine patch, tired from the last eight months of gloomy gray rain. When I took a bigger breath through my nose, my lungs filled with the smell of pine, forest muskiness, and, coming from somewhere, my favorite scent--sweet, heavy lilac. Getting out from under the shadows of the apartments, forcing heavy legs and sluggish limbs, finally feeling a bit of life awakening inside myself, I didn't hesitate when I reached the sidewalk and fixated on my goal, just a little farther down, the main road to our apartment club house. The articles said that all I had to do was picture the end result I wanted, and then the right people and opportunities would come my way. It was very difficult at first to keep images of being successful when the reality of not having a job and being in debt was staring at me daily, but as I practiced seeing my end results, I got better and better at it. But sobriety didn't cure resentments and fears and habits for us. It simply gave us clearer vision so we could work on them. Sometimes, this process of letting things go can break your heart. Many of us are terrified that getting sober will mean leaving marriages, shedding lifelong friends. Some of us kept drinking for years because of these fears. We had to learn to be brave, to tune into our hearts, to be willing to do what needed to be done, and to understand what was meant for us. We do not want to sugarcoat it: burning down your life hurts. It can be worth it, though, and so sweet on the other side. And clearing space often means making room for a new life.

Many years ago, Jardine stopped in to visit Lizzie, a friend who saved up money and moved into a Miami motel for half a year with nothing but a bikini, a couple paperbacks, a dress, and one lipstick--to clear her head. She went and understood for herself. As she explains it, when we apply systems thinking to a problem we realise that solutions are rarely singular and often it is an unforeseen change that causes a system to break (making it hard to prepare for). You need to get up close and personal with the problems you are solving. Clever people understand this. Creative people understand this. Could data-driven AI have predicted that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak would have successfully competed with companies like IBM in the 1970s? This is what Richard Branson considers in an article written for Virgin. Clearly, Branson sees the value in interpreting meaning beyond simply what the numbers or status quo would lead us to believe. Then, drawing the comparison between that observation and his own Virgin companies, he continues, Traditional airline metrics were essentially screaming, `This is crazy! Some of the practices in this article are meant to be done on the spot, and if your journal is handy you can keep track of what's working well for you. Just like my saying the way we breathe is how we live, the way we practice is also how we live. No matter what teacher or expert I speak to in any field, what I hear repeatedly is that if you want to build a practice, you have to be consistent. The twenty-minute meditation is very popular in the wellness world for many reasons, including accessing different brain wave states. While this time frame works for some people in some schools of meditation, it doesn't really apply to breathwork because our practice by nature is more active and somatically focused. When I learned to meditate, I started with five minutes. When I learned to practice breathwork, I began with seven minutes. For the practices in this article, I suggest specific lengths of time as a starting point to the particular practice. Some are designed to be quick and others are designed to go longer.

If you are new to breathwork, please use the times as a guide and adjust them as needed. I was looking out the window at Xanadu and her foal grazing in the pasture and remembered the spring morning during my senior year in high school when I saw from a window a gray pony grazing in the backyard. In those days I thought of nothing but going to college, but years before I ever had my own horse, I imagined that one might appear on our lawn and that I could keep it. I knew who owned that pony; We returned it to the owner. Now, watching my own horses, I realize that the dream, once so ephemeral, had become reality. My husband commented that the cardboard farm I constructed as a child bears an uncanny similarity to the place we now live. Early on I chose to ride in the European style called riding English--using the saddle with pommel rather than horn--instead of the American style called riding western, which is somewhat of a misnomer, as the saddle was designed in Spain, taken to the New World by Spanish explorers, and redeveloped in its present form by Mexicans. My riding muscles have been trained by so many years in the English saddle that today I find western saddles difficult to use. I have attended only one rodeo in my life and amused my relatives by cheering for the bucking broncos and steers rather than the cowboys who were trying to ride them. I admire the reining, roping, and cutting that western riders do since these sports carry on the legacy of cattle ranching but am mystified by western-style classes in which people are judged in part on their fancy, silver-studded saddles, since no reasonable person uses these saddles for ordinary riding. When I was first called to answer an ad that was direct mailed to me on a health/weight loss product, the guy who placed the ad said to me, How fat are you? I was so stunned; I just hung up on him. That guy today has lost millions because he didn't know how to answer the phone. A short time later, I responded to another ad that was under Help Wanted in the local paper that said: We pay you to lose weight. I'm calling about your ad, I asked, hopeful that he would be professional. Can I have your name please? This threw me off because I didn't want to give out my personal information until I knew what this was all about. I stuttered, I'm.