How Much Stress Can I Put Myself In?

We're the only animal on the planet, i think, that can control our breath separate from our heart rate. And you can use it like we use remote controls for our t v. You have your brain stem, your limbic system, preferntal cortex, like your lizard brain,. Like reaction to the environment, like snakes eat their own because they don't know any betterie btthen it's built on evolution. The human gift of preforntal cortex is when this wind chime of your lungs and your heart rake get going crazy, and like the stresses around you, blood flow recedes.

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