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BREATHING
AND READING CLOSELY LINKED
If
anyone you know has always tended to be short of breath: he has
probably also had difficulties in finishing a task. --Perhaps
even a short attention span. In fact, many of those who are short-winded
have a hard time reading. Many reading problems may correct just
by improving people's breathing patterns.
Pending formal
research which various authorities and institutions may or may not
allow to be done: it appears that at least half of all high school
or college age persons who have serious reading problems, are shortwinded,
and their reading problems would disappear if their short-windedness
were corrected.
Project Renaissance
discovered this surprising relationship in 1983, and no contravention
of the finding has ever emerged, but word on this finding has been
slow to spread. This finding is news to most of you reading this.
Why should you believe such a startling relationship? --You shouldn't.
But don't believe the automatic dismissal by the authorities to
whom we've entrusted our children either. You can make your own
immediate personal test of the matter to your own satisfaction this
way:
Run yourself
short of oxygen on a jog. While still panting, try to read
or to give attention to any detailed task, before your breathing
has settled back down!
When you pay
attention to a stimulus, you naturally hold your breath. When you
breathe, you are moving your attention to some new stimulus. If
that shallow-chested or short-winded friend of your has to do that
before he's listened or read to the end of someone else's sentence,
that breaks up the meaning of that sentence for him!
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Many thousands
of children are too short of breath to read to or listen to the
end of many of the sentences they must deal with, and consequently
are unable to get their meaning. There are more than enough children
who have reading difficulties for other reasons, to ensure job security
for all those now entrusted with getting our children to read.
The same problem
also affects levels of perception and thinking. If someone is too
shortbreathed to have a span of awareness in which several
different elements can be considered at the same time, there is
no way for that person to begin experiencing and thinking in
terms of relationships! - He is doomed to the very most concrete
levels of thinking and experience only.
Project Renaissance
has drafted a program for profoundly improving breathing-span, as
a way to address such problems of language-comprehension and perceptual/
thinking level. The main part of the brief presenting held-breath
underwater swimming, resulting in rib-cage expansion of about one
inch per week. To receive this brief for free and know what
to do and why and how to do it, (--and also for some more ways to
test to your own satisfaction the validity of this issue:) punch
this "download" button:
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only, other copyrights may apply). While we encourage the free distribution
of this article (complete text only, including this notice and acknowledgement
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To reach Win Wenger, please visit his website at
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