“Watch a baby breathe,” says Gordon,“and you'll see the abdomen go up and down,deep and slow.” With age,most people change from this healthy abdominal breathing into shallow chest breathing.
At Duke University Medical Centre,Dr.Jon Seskevich has taught abdominal breathing to most of the 18,000 patients he's worked with since 1990.
One of his most dramatic cases involved a lung-cancer patient.“I walked into the room to find this large man actually fighting for breath,” Seskevich recalls.“I had him sit back in his chair and place his feet on the ground.I then asked if it was OK if I touched his abdomen.He nodded,so I put my hand on and told him to breathe softly into my hand,to let his abdomen rise into my hand.”
After about six minutes of this,he was breathing comfortably.“All day,people were telling him to relax,” says Seskevich,“and it seemed to make his struggle worse.I just told him to breathe into his abdomen.We didn't cure his cancer,but we may have saved him a trip to the intensive-care unit.”
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇说明文。正确的呼吸方式有助于减轻我们的压力,而抗紧张最好的药就是慢慢地深呼吸,但是很少有人知道如何正确呼吸及正确呼吸的重要性。
.According to the Centre for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington,the best medicine for antistress is ________.
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