A new fad? Brain Respiration

[The Mighty Thor]

A manic child should be treated like a leaky nuclear reactor. Stay the hell away until the energy has dissipated or end up being fried. Unfortunately, on the morning that my son was due to try out a Korean therapy called Brain Respiration, he was in a feral frame of mind. I pitied the softly spoken woman who led my children away for their private session of stretching, breathing exercise and meditation. My son was running around the grand dining room at Warren House in Richmond as though he had never been let out of his cage before.

I smiled apologetically at the Dahn Master (as Brain Respiration teachers are known) as she took my manic son and not-so-manic daughter away. When she returned them to me two hours later, they had the beatific smiles of Tibetan lamas and they radiated calmness. I was convinced it was a sham. As soon as we got back into our car, they would start performing again. But they didn't. They stayed calm and focused for the rest of the day. For the first time in many months, they spent an entire day together without having a single argument. My son spent most of the afternoon drawing people with yellow auras emanating from their tummies.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1367966,00.html

 

[Ashles]

Dahn Master:
"If you don't behave I'll make you swallow a hand grenade and your stomach will explode. Any questions?"

 

[Ashles]

Hang on:

BR was developed by a Korean clinical pathologist, Dr Ilchi Lee. He based the system on a 10,000 year-old Korean mind-body discipline called Dahn Hak, but modernised it for a 20th-century audience.

Ten THOUSAND years?

I think they've slightly overdone the "ancient discipline" angle here.

 

[The Mighty Thor]

Dahn Master:
"If you don't behave I'll make you swallow a hand grenade and your stomach will explode. Any questions?"

Well, people seem to be able to swallow anything these days

I felt really sorry for the woman finding it hard to keep the kids in control while running THREE businesses.

 

[Ashles]

It's probably the first time in months anyone has paid any attention to the poor kids.
Maybe this article should be entitled "Why I'm a bad father and don't have any common sense"

Incidentally I'm quite intrigued by the links to stories on the left of that page:

"Disabled people want the right to die" (what, all of them?)

"Sleeping pills can kill, drug firm warns" (Pope may be Catholic, Vatican announces)

"Antidepressants to be ruled safe" followed two links down by "Antidepressants ruled safe for adults" (well talk about a foregone conclusion - and that's lucky as adults have been taking them for quite a while now)
But above it they say "Antidepressant pills 'too readily prescribed'" (obviously this is before they were ruled safe)