Watch Her!

If you’ve got linked in, this is worth watching. What do you suppose went on in her mind? Whose voice did she hear if other than her own inner knowing? A few months back I rose to Dr. Myron Golden’s ice plunge challenge (a second time) to unhook that “freak-out” mechanism that knows us too well using box breathing. The 1st time I cried but lasted, hand in ice bucket, a full six minutes. The 2nd time I simply noticed the pain and watched traffic stream by until the 8-minute timer sounded. The transformative takeaway was received the following night when I interrupted a gruesome nightmare and box breathed myself back to sleep. And the next afternoon, when my daughter was sliding into meltdown, I box breathed myself right into “this ain’t nothin but a thang” in fewer than 15 seconds - a single cycle of inhale four counts, hold four counts, exhale four counts, hold four counts. Doing so unhooked my daughter’s freakout too. Instantly. Remembering we’ve got a choice is key.