Sometimes the air in our emotions can get stagnant, when we are paralyzed by fear and resentment. We must breathe it in and breathe it out to survive. Sometimes people get put on life-support a ventilator breathes for them until they can breathe for themselves. Sometimes people suffocate and need emergency CPR, so we must push on their chest and breathe deep breaths of fresh air into their lungs until they can breathe on their own. The machine provides their little lungs with fresh air until they can breathe on their own. Sometimes children are born into this world and unable to breathe for themselves and so they are placed in an incubator. However, we don’t need a colorful graph to let us know when air quality is in the hazardous range, we can just s mell it in some cases. Perhaps you were the guilty party? When the elevator doors slide open, you breathe deeply of that fresh air! In fact, the EPA has developed a helpful Air Quality Index (AQI), that ranges from “good” (green) to “hazardous” (maroon). If you have, you know it was not very pleasant. Maybe you have been in an elevator where something went horribly wrong- someone’s “gas leak,” so to speak. When this happens, we just must pinch our nose with one hand and do that thing we are called to do as parents. Are you a parent? Perhaps you’ve been in this situation with your own baby… you entered their room only to find something had gone horribly wrong. Symptoms may include: coughing, throat or chest irritation, worsening of asthma, difficulty breathing, and lung damage… to name just a few.Īir can be an indicator of the condition in a room. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a study demonstrating the ill effects that smog (a combination of industrial pollutants, vehicle emissions, open burning, incinerators, and so on) can have on our health. It’s refreshing to get away from the city smog and breathe in the fresh air of nature once in a while. We find that big city air hard and heavy, maybe even choking us. Many of us have experienced the feeling of big city smog, especially when we migrate from the crisp clean air of the countryside. Sometimes, air can become unbreathable, becoming “stuffy,” like in a room full of sweaty church folks where the preacher goes on too long and the AC is broken. We can live for a considerable amount of time without food, to a lesser degree without water, but only minutes without air. Have you ever felt like you were suffocating? Air is all around us, all the time, we take it for granted, until it’s suddenly not there or becomes stagnant.
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