Healthy Living - December 2011
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www.bothell-reporter.com • www.kenmore-reporter.com [6] December 16, 2011 547186 540334 000000000000 Name size color 425-485-3051 [email protected] • www.KenmoreEyes.com Welcome! Now Accepting New Patients RON COVERDALE, O.D., DIANA McFARLAND, O.D. Optometric Physicians 6830 N.E. Bothell Way • Kenmore, WA 98028 547190 Present this coupon for $ 50.00 OFF* No other promotional or insurance discounts apply. NBN and VSP vision insurance excluded from this offer. This coupon has no cash value. Expires 01-31-12 *Some restrictions apply • New Full & Partial Dentures • Repairs While You Wait • Softliners for new or reline • Reline-Same Day Service Bothell Denture Clinic 10137 Main Street, Suite 7, Bothell (Main Street & 102nd Avenue) 425-483-4643 547203 more stories online... bothell-reporter.com kenmore- reporter.com 23305 Bothell-Everett Hwy Bothell, WA • 425-806-3700 Ananda Seattle & Bothell www.AnandaSeattle.org Christmas Eve Candlelight Service Dec 24, 9-10 pm All Are Welcome! C C C C C C C C C C C C C C Ongoing yoga & meditation - daytime & evening classes 548899 You’d think the most elemental bodily function we have — breathing — ought to be a “no brainer!” You shouldn’t’ need to go to a class to learn to breathe correctly, right? OK, so breathing is pretty basic. And sure, you do it all the time. Hey, you can even do it in your sleep! But our problems begin with the fact that breathing is so fundamental that we are rarely conscious of it. Proper breathing requires good posture and good posture encourages diaphrag- matic breathing (sometimes known as “belly breathing”). e classic suggestion is to observe an infant lying on its back and watch the belly expand and contract with each natural breath. What happens to us as we grow up and enter the ten- sion and stress-filled world of adulthood, we begin shallow breathing as fear, stress and anxiety build up and become chronic. Our shoulders may round forward and the chest may cave in. Tension is oſten carried in the region of the stomach and the diaphragm contracts. Pretty soon the only breathing that’s happening is in the upper chest. e result of this shallow breathing is a reduction of oxygen to the brain and an additional incentive to feel anxious (for lack of adequate oxygen). Imagine, now, it’s a beauti- ful spring day. e air is bright, the breeze is light, and the sun is shining and warm. You step outside and, enjoying the moment, you liſt up on your toes, straighten up your spine, open the chest and inhale with a deep and satisfying breath! Aaahh! Now that’s breathing! In the practice of yoga or meditation, natural, deep breathing is included as part of the training. But you can also do practice rounds at your desk, in the car, lying in bed at night, as well as in your yoga or meditation routine. e “belly” should expand first as you inhale. e middle ribs (“floating ribs”) should liſt a little and expand at the sides. e upper chest might liſt and expand just slightly. Don’t strain. Be natu- ral and enjoy it. You can hold the breath, or not, as you like (but never strain). When you exhale, keep the chest up and the spine straight. Take a happy holiday breath! Hriman McGilloway teaches meditation and raja yoga at the Ananda Medita- tion Temple in Bothell. Breath is Life! 547195
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www.bothell-reporter.com • www.kenmore-reporter.com[6] December 16, 2011
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[email protected] • www.KenmoreEyes.com
Welcome! Now AcceptingNew Patients
RON COVERDALE, O.D., DIANA McFARLAND, O.D.Optometric Physicians
6830 N.E. Bothell Way • Kenmore, WA 98028
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Present this coupon for
$50.00 OFF*No other promotional or insurance discounts apply. NBN and VSP vision insurance excluded from this offer. This coupon has no cash value. Expires 01-31-12
*Some restrictions apply
• New Full & Partial Dentures
• Repairs While You Wait
• Softliners for new or reline
• Reline-Same Day Service
BothellDenture Clinic
10137 Main Street, Suite 7, Bothell(Main Street & 102nd Avenue)
425-483-4643547203
more stories online... bothell-reporter.com kenmore-reporter.com
23305 Bothell-Everett HwyBothell, WA • 425-806-3700
AnandaSeattle & Bothell
www.AnandaSeattle.org
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
Dec 24, 9-10 pmAll Are Welcome!
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Ongoing yoga & meditation - daytime & evening classes
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You’d think the most elemental bodily function we have — breathing — ought to be a “no brainer!” You shouldn’t’ need to go to a class to learn to breathe correctly, right? OK, so breathing is pretty basic. And sure, you do it all the time. Hey, you can even do it in your sleep!
But our problems begin with the fact that breathing is so fundamental that we are rarely conscious of it. Proper breathing requires good posture and good posture encourages diaphrag-matic breathing (sometimes known as “belly breathing”). � e classic suggestion is to observe an infant lying on its back and watch the belly expand and contract with each natural breath.
What happens to us as we grow up and enter the ten-sion and stress-� lled world of adulthood, we begin shallow breathing as fear, stress and anxiety build up and become chronic. Our shoulders may round forward and the chest may cave in. Tension is o� en carried in the region of the stomach and the diaphragm contracts.
Pretty soon the only breathing that’s happening is in the upper chest. � e result of this shallow breathing is a reduction of oxygen to the brain and an additional incentive to feel anxious (for lack of adequate oxygen).
Imagine, now, it’s a beauti-ful spring day. � e air is bright, the breeze is light,
and the sun is shining and warm. You step outside and, enjoying the moment, you li� up on your toes, straighten up your spine, open the chest and inhale with a deep and satisfying breath! Aaahh!
Now that’s breathing! In the practice of yoga or meditation, natural, deep breathing is included as part of the training. But you can also do practice rounds at your desk, in the car, lying in bed at night, as well as in your yoga or meditation routine.
� e “belly” should expand � rst as you inhale. � e middle ribs (“� oating ribs”) should li� a little and expand at the sides. � e upper chest might li� and expand just slightly. Don’t strain. Be natu-ral and enjoy it. You can hold the breath, or not, as you like (but never strain). When you exhale, keep the chest up and the spine straight.
Take a happy holiday breath!
Hriman McGilloway teaches meditation and raja yoga at the Ananda Medita-
tion Temple in Bothell.
Breath is Life!
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