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Quotes About Respiration

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.
~ Steve King
The most powerful effects of brain respiration come through supplying enough oxygen to the brain by the effective circulation of ki (energy )and blood
~ Ilchi Lee
I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of this reader, the operation of reading turned into a natural process, the current that brings the sentences to graze the filter of her attention, to stop for a moment before being absorbed by the circuits of her mind and disappearing, transformed into her interior ghosts, into what in her is most personal and incommunicable.
~ Italo Calvino
I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of this reader, the operation of reading turned into a natural process, the current that brings the sentences to graze the filter of her attention, to stop for a moment before being absorbed by the circuits of her mind and disappearing, transformed into her interior ghosts, into what in her is most personal and incommunicable. At
~ Italo Calvino
One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.
~ Archibald Hill
Death may be due to a wide variety of diseases and disorders, but in every case the underlying physiological cause is a breakdown in the body's oxygen cycle.
~ Unknown
REFERENCE RANGES FOR CARBON DIOXIDE Carbon Dioxide (mmol/L) Category Greater than 33 High (Hypercapnia) 21 to 33 Normal Less than 21 Low (Hypocapnia) Target Range: 23 to 29 mmol/L
~ James B. LaValle
This fits in with what I saw in staff in astronomical facilities and was reporting to the management team: 10-14% Oxygen: Emotional upset, abnormal fatigue, disturbed respiration.
~ Steven Magee
Metabolism is oxygen. And oxygen comes from breathing.
~ Marc David
Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.
~ Gabriel Cousens
Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.
~ Marisa Tomei
In the end, respiration and burning are equivalent; the slight delay in the middle is what we know as life.
~ Nick Lane
The rhythm of the chant often corresponds to the respiration of a calm, unstressed person, and it has an immediate calming effect—probably by entrainment. Entrainment is a process in which one rhythmic frequency influences another, until they synchronize, or approach synchronization, or have a strong influence on each other. In a somewhat different way, waves of water influence one another when they intersect.*
~ Norman Doidge
In disciplining ourselves to practice Zen in movement, we never cease to become mu with all our might or count the frequency of our respiration at all times and in all places just as we do when we are in meditation. Therefore, it is our ideal to train ourselves to attain immovability in movement. As I have been saying, however, even professional Zen monks cannot always practice Zen in movement except those endowed with the greatest capacities.
~ Unknown