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June 6 - June 13, 2020
Hills are more a test of shrewdness than stamina; you’ve got to have the experience to realize that your best climbing speed isn’t much faster than anyone else’s and the humility to accept it.
Super-oxygenating your blood not only warms you up, but calms you down; and because a clear head helps you survive in dire straits, your brain quickly releases soothing hormones to help you (ahem) chill out.
Wim takes his students through a twenty-minute hyperventilation drill, which helps insulate them from the cold but may also trigger their sympathetic nervous systems and their immune response.
the three specific steps of Wim Hof’s breathing drills (thirty to forty power breaths; deep exhale and hold; deep inhale and hold; repeat for three more rounds).
Maybe, he speculated, learning to handle the shock of cold water would also “blunt your stress response to other daily stresses such as road rage, exams, or getting fired at work.”
She was stuck in Aesop’s smuggest fable. She was allowed to like running but not love it, because if she loved it too much, she’d lose it altogether.
If these guys were smart, they’d step aside immediately and draft from behind—but testosterone ain’t smart.
The donkeys had laid down the law: United we run, divided we stall.
From what I’d seen, donkeys weren’t hot-ticket items. I’d gotten three for free in one year, and I wasn’t even trying.
During that darkness, she vowed that if she ever got her life back, she was going to live every second of it. “Now, nothing stops her,” Linda said. “She gets an idea, she’s gone.
“She was only forty-three when she took her own life. Can you imagine how you must feel to be that young and believe there’s nothing worth living for?”
“Animals don’t do things out of spite. They’re not trying to teach you a lesson. That’s the biggest mistake people make with animals, getting this idea that what they do has something to do with you. You gotta get yourself out of the picture, and then you’ll understand what’s really going on.”
in confined spaces, Sherman had taught himself to zone out until it was over. “He’s not stubborn,” Karin concluded. “He’s scared. So we’re going to keep checking on him, and petting him, and letting him know he’s not abandoned.”
What the hell is an Earthship? Basically, Kip explained as we all walked together to the pasture, it’s a passive-solar home that uses massive windows and natural insulation to be self-heating and -cooling.
You’ve got one hope of getting to the finish line, and that’s to forget about dominance and ego and discover the power of sharing and caring, compassion and cooperation.
Flower brayed in excitement, and then they all cut loose, the three of them yodeling a donkey song of love. Tanya smiled and shot me a glance. The only thing I’d really taught Sherman, she knew, was that he’d never be alone again.
