> now looking at those exceptional professions she lists what comes to my mind is not just that those people breathe professionally good but also that those jobs don't require you to open and read mails whose content is often highly unpleasant
Professional musician here - one of her listed professions. Believe or not, unpleasant emails are part of my experience too. But honestly, I don’t understand why this introduction to therapeutic breathing is specific to email in any case. Breath-holding and shallow breathing are common with any high-stress situation. I notice it myself and in students leading up to and in the midst of technically-demanding passages.
But I’m deeply sceptical that the solution is anything more than developing better awareness of one’s habitual responses and deliberately reprogramming them.
i assume you're not trapped in a cage-like environment staring at a screen for 8 hours constantly receiving messages while feeling observed and judged. it's a big difference just occasionally receiving a mail and some of them can be unpleasant.
Why would you assume that? "Professional musician" covers an incredibly wide range of experiences but large swathes of that easily fall into solo entrepreneur. Even among professionals very very few musicians are practicing or performing for the majority of their working time.
Professional musician here - one of her listed professions. Believe or not, unpleasant emails are part of my experience too. But honestly, I don’t understand why this introduction to therapeutic breathing is specific to email in any case. Breath-holding and shallow breathing are common with any high-stress situation. I notice it myself and in students leading up to and in the midst of technically-demanding passages.
But I’m deeply sceptical that the solution is anything more than developing better awareness of one’s habitual responses and deliberately reprogramming them.