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There’s nothing more terrifying to me than not being able to breathe, but I use that fear as motivation for movement. If you’re being smothered from someone on top of you, you better move, if you can’t move, you better pray, and then find a pocket of air. I suspect it’s kind of like being buried alive in an avalanche; you need to find a pocket of air until you can be rescued. The problem with being smothered is no disaster team is looking for you, no search and rescue dog is going to sniff you out—you must save yourself.
Relax, breathe (if you can ) and start working to improve your position, little by little, until you have dug yourself out of the hole you put yourself in. I’ll admit it won’t be easy, but survival is a conscious choice and sometimes being patient and enduring is our only defense.
I shared this with a client of mine today. He applied it to his anger.
Nice.