Homework Week 3: Varied breathing by 8 cycles w/2min breath hold

Progressing through a challenging new breathing exercise that initially caused dread and mental strain.

Trial 1: I quit midway, overwhelmed.
The focus shifted from chasing completion time, to cultivating mental composure and body awareness during breath holds.
Trials 2 & 3: I reduced the table difficulty to build familiarity. Then retried another time as per Renee's custom table, nearly completing it but stopping short, just cause pre-workout I entertained that possibility to stop in the last cycle. I considered it an escape of a pre-conditioned idea,
Trial 4: Completed the full exercise, gaining better control over contractions and appreciating the value of each breath. Despite some struggle near the last and only breath, where I did not maintain a slow pace whilst taking that only precious one with the low CO2 peaking, yet during the last cycle I maintained calm determination to strong contraction that by now I was expecting.

Overall, the experience taught me that progress isn’t linear, and mastery comes through patience, adaptation, and self-understanding.

Below is the shot of varied breathing decreasing cycles x8 6:5:4:4:3:3:2:1 breaths w/2m holds.

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