#Better Respiration

[umar5264]

Meridian Acupressure Mat and Pillow Set V.1

Pain Relief 

This set helps with pain relief by stimulating pressure points in the body.

The mat and pillow are covered with hundreds of small non-toxic plastic spikes that simulate the pressure points.

When pressure is applied to these points, it releases tension and promotes the flow of energy in the body. This helps reduce pain and tension in the muscles and joints.

Relaxation

 The stimulation of pressure points in the body increases the production of endorphins, which are natural mood boosters.

This can further promote relaxation and reduce stress.

Using this Acupressure Mat and Pillow Set regularly can help people improve their overall well-being and manage stress levels

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At rest, your lungs wish to deflate, and your ribcage expands outwards.

[aropride]

🙃

[nobodybetterlookatme]

You know what my coworkers might’ve made fun of me for having so much "useless shit" in my go bag, but I guarantee they're never gonna do that again bc they've all used every single thing have in there 😌

[elkkiel]

i'm really happy!! i scrolled back on some of my kitty token and like. i'm officially at the point where I'm cringing at my art from a few months ago again!! that might sound sarcastic but i'm 100% serious. stagnating or even losing skill from being burnt out and depressed feels fucking awful. and like without art I genuinely have no fucking clue how to keep on going. but i think i'm getting healthier to the point where i'm finally improving again with little baby steps. so slowly getting those skills back feels unbelievably good

i'm just :') haven't felt hope like this in years, like since i finally found the right mix of meds and didn't want to kill myself every single day lol. life is feeling fucking worth it again baby. nothing to say fuck it to, we are just straight up balling B)

[torchickentacos]

[kabutone]

after the years of people jumping on activism like its a trend and then leaving it behind after a few weeks i am so fucking tired. like not to be cynical but like i see SO many people talking about palestine and saving lives but like be so fucking real are you gonna forget all about this in a few months? like how ppl ditched BLM after it gained traction in 2020? like how so fucking MANY OF YOU have stopped wearing a mask despite the pandemic still happening? you could be saving lives right in your own town instead of posting tiktoks that might not even help

i'm not saying you need to dedicate your lives to activism forever and ever but you do need to at least change Something to make yourself and the world better. i will always be listening to black voices, jewish voices, disabled voices, any groups that need to be heard, and trying to change my behavior for the better. like idk after seeing this happen time and time again a LOT of this shit seems so so fake. like there's so many bad things in the world and i know you cannot dedicate your all to every single problem ever forever and i don't want people spreading themselves too thin or burning themselves out but like please don't just stop giving a shit when it's not "popular" or getting you views or pats on the back anymore.

[mossfeed]

i hate how many covid posts include black & brown communities as an afterthought. like it’s unreal how many people have such colonialist mindsets regarding disease. the forefront of covid conversations needs to be its disproportionate impact on marginalized groups but it’s like every covid post solely focuses on queer history and the parallels between AIDS and covid (important info but not my point) and either doesn’t mention BIPOC or includes them as an afterthought

[kisskissinterrobang]

Every day, without even having to go out, I see the faces of plague mongers. I don't know how you can walk around so shamelessly knowing that you are harming and killing thousands upon thousands of people over nothing. It's mind blowing to me how anyone can be that selfish.

As always this is a plug for all local mask blocs incase your inability to mask is just that due to lack of means and not a choice you're making.

Always give whatever you can and boost mas and fundraising for this type of community care.

[wormsin]

Janelle Monae doing two minutes of the first bar of Make Me Feel with Michael Jackson dancing in this outfit is one of the all time performances I've seen.

[thatonebirdwrites]

Trust me, you do not want LongCovid. I have it. A friend of mine has it. Her young niece has it. If you claim you don't know anyone who has it, it's either: 1. they don't feel safe enough to tell you, 2. people may not understand they actually have it because most doctors are NOT trained on recognizing the symptoms so people just think they're "tired" all the time and make jokes about brain fog or their sense of smell being funky.

To avoid it:

Vaccinate.

Wear an N95, KN94, p100 mask or better. This also will not only protect you from Covid and other airborne viruses, but it will also protect you from wildfire smoke, air pollutants, folks using too much Axe spray, and allergens.

Better air filtration.

Join or start up a mask bloc to help share info and supplies with your community.

That's our new normal. Grieve the world that was. Stop trying to go back to it. WE CANNOT. So please exit the denial stage of grief, okay? Being virus vectors is disabling and killing people. We don't have to get covid over and over and over. We have tools we can use. Those are bi-yearly vaccines, N95 or better respirators, air filtration devices. Normalize these. This is how you care for yourself and your loved ones. By doing the right thing and normalizing masking, vaccinating, and better air filtration. Thanks.

I just want to remind people that it’s 2024 and we didn’t “go thru a pandemic” we are “going thru a pandemic” present tense. It is still happening. People are still get sick, still becoming disabled, and still dying. Covid hasn’t gone away and I beg people to not normalize getting sick with it.

[theweeviler]

[changelingsandothernonsense]

Yes I did hurt my fingers using a touch screen again. Yes I am aware this happens a lot.

I should probably eat something. I have been neglecting that recently.

[megacross-ground-zero-rated-r]

Warning for NSFT text, sensory deprivation, teratophilia, and breathplay / erotic asphyxiation.

Eddie shares what is technically a kiss with Ross Kuro, a being of living shadow, because it had to completely envelop his body and make sure none of his scent escapes while he's being hunted by supernatural creatures.

It filtered oxygen in through its skin, pumped it into his mouth, then gently sucked his exhales out. The stale air was collected in chambers of its boundless, shapeshifting form, the pockets spread out thin over the wall of the crevice the two were hiding in, looking like black lichen to the casual observer. The CO2 is no danger to it, it can hold it for as long as it needs.

The ink spreading over him can do more than just cling: Long, slow strokes down his back, a rhythmic squeeze and release of pressure around his midsection encouraging deep breaths, Ross' voice murmuring in his ear... The fact that he knows to survive, he has to trust Ross...

He just melts.

His brain gets overloaded because he Knows instinctively that no, snarling and clawing to get out is not the answer here... It's such a strange feeling when relaxing into the void whispering to surrender to it is the right call, and doing it feels so... Natural.

((To be clear he's getting plenty of air right here. Any floating, tingling, etc sensations he's feeling are from the rest of what's going on. Ross Kuro is intentionally trying to get him in this trance-like state and lower his heart-rate. It will not, for example, "be forced to start suffocating him if the hunters get too close." Not comfortable with putting that on paper unless it's as a roleplay.))

Once he's out of the experience he's shocked and a little unnerved how fast his body switched gears. Then he listens to Ross Kuro explaining what exactly it did, and his stomach flutters.

"I knew what I had to do." He tells himself later. "I just knew, that's it, it was simple self-preservation... Clicking the switch from fight to freeze, one extreme to the other. That's all."

But something about being cocooned like that has permanently rewired his brain chemistry. He can't stop thinking about other ways that second skin could ripple over his own, what it could feel like if Ross Kuro started cutting off his oxygen...

Even if he changes his mind and says no, linking our respiratory systems so we were Breating Together doesn't count as kissing... It is still undeniabley intimate. Still something he would've died without. He's always going to carry that with him.

Anything past this part gets pretty OOC if I try to lead it towards Eddie asking Ross Kuro to do that again. Even if they stick strictly to the calming aspects of sensory deprivation, not adding any constriction or manipulation to the mix. I'll be sketching those possibilities out as a fun experiment.

[ryanthedemiboy]

Mold will grow in your lungs. You often can't see mold before it can get into your lungs. Wear a respirator.

kids these days don’t know how lethal stagnant water is

[whatslovedlives]

2 people in my department are sick :l