on 08-04-09 14:12: Ardith Hinton to James Bradley re: Physio...  2.

 AH>            Deep breathing is a very useful skill.  As a
 AH> woodwind player I do it naturally now.  But it did take
 AH> some conscious effort at first....  :-)

Us drummers know nothing about that, except how good the French horn cuties
look doin' it.  (Remember: Proximity to the percussion section weighs
heavily on our sight line.)

 AH>            Concerning meditation... maybe, maybe not.  Dallas ran
 AH> across a news item recently about a study of which parts of the
 AH> brain were most active during meditation.  The frontal area
 AH> lit up like a Christmas tree.  And then, when the
 AH> researchers asked an experienced meditator what he'd been
 AH> doing, he said he was opening the third eye.  The third eye
 AH> is in the same area... i.e. the same part of the brain you
 AH> may be using routinely if you are an introvert or an intuitive thinker,
 AH> as I am.  This sort of stuff fascinates me although it is
 AH> difficult to understand at times.  IMHO the scientist & the
 AH> swami are saying essentially the same thing, using
 AH> different words.  But folks in crisis tend to rely heavily
 AH> on their preferred reasoning style.  If they've dismissed
 AH> meditation (or whatever) for years they probably won't give
 AH> it a second thought even when they have very few other
 AH> options left.  I'm more hopeful about those who can say "I
 AH> don't know
 AH> ... I don't have enough data."  Assuming this woman
 AH> attended the seminar of her own free will, however, she may
 AH> not be as unreceptive as she sounds.  Sometimes people on
 AH> the verge of change kick & scream quite vigorously about
 AH> it....  :-))

I was a student too, so I let the class sus (SP?) its own level before I opened
my mouth. (Rocking the boat? |-) If someone from there one day lops a finger
tip off, and still thinks running nd screaming is the preferred first step, I
just hope I'm there with a video camera.  (Yes, if they hit a gusher, I'd
drop the camera and donate my belt to the cause.) In retrospect, if other
participants gather a few techniques, that would make my work complete. I was
thinking at the time, that this boisterous gal wanted to discredit what she
couldn't understand, and wanted the comfort in communal ignorance.



 AH>            Makes sense to me... I test salespeople by asking questions
 AH> to which I already know the answers & I test medical
 AH> professionals in much the same way. They can earn bonus
 AH> points for admitting what they don't know.  Dallas & I also
 AH> test for humour on occasion.  We work well together as a
 AH> comedy team... [grin].

Gracie and Alan?  As my understanding of medicine is always lacking, I still
have to rely on blind faith. I do however like to play dumb to see if an
"expert" is trying to baffle me. 



 AH> to remain open to such possibilities.  :-)

The option to that is baffling. "Head in the sand" seems to work for some
though, just don't expect me to explain it. Like when a person professes to
know *nothing* about computers, they all seem to know how to plug them into the
wall and find the power switch. I too have to realize my limits. When a
specialist was explaining the bursas to me and once the Latin started flying, I
had to stop her with, "Too much information." My grey matter
glass was full,
and my concentration had to be diverted to how I was going to pilot my vehicle
home after the ROM. I consider myself a curious guy, but I reluctantly had to
concede my learning curve had to slope *very* slowly post op.


 AH>  Once again... I understand, but I can't offer any
 AH>  solutions.

 JB>  You're in good company! 

 AH>            I think so.  And that's important too....  ;-)

That beats every dissertation on The Meaning Of Life I have heard to date. Now,
if I hear a wopper, I'll be the first to post it here, but don't hold your
breath. 


... James
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