![]() ![]() The arrival at the scene of an apparent suicide is the impetus for paramedic Bruce Pike, the narrator of Tim Winton’s novel Breath, to return on the pivotal events of a summer many years earlier and the struggle to relieve himself of the baggage he believed he carried on well into adulthood. Breath deep, stay calm, focus on your breath. Either way, being able to hold one’s breath for at least 60 seconds seemed to be skill worth developing.Īt this end of life I no longer maintain this practice, but despite the fact that tests have assured me that I actually have very good lung capacity, panic and anxiety attacks can leave me struggling to fell like I am getting enough air. I never heard of any unfortunate incidents resulting from such an activity but my overactive childhood imagination manufactured many. ![]() Where I grew up that generally involved challenging one another to crawl through one of the long corrugated metal culverts under the rural road ways. ![]() I am aware that some push it to an extreme, driving for the physiological high induced by oxygen deprivation, but in my day it was an exercise in imagining oneself capable of surviving one of the daring challenges we set up for ourselves. Take a deep breath and hold it as long as you can… I imagine there are few children who have not engaged in some variation of that form of super hero training. ![]()
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