Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Sneeze loud
Fred Ott in mid-sneeze
When my first client this morning suppressed a sneeze I thought how much it was like a bomb being detonated inside a sealed container. A huge explosive energy was contained and not let out.....Hmmn.
Interestingly, an unimpeded sneeze sends two to five thousand bacteria-filled droplets into the air at around 60mph. That's quite something isn't it? So if you sneeze in a London tube there's a good chance someone at the other end will catch some if it's not masked. Naturally, by suppressing a sneeze we help avoid spreading germs, but we also create a huge muscular spasm to prevent the sneeze from going out, as well as the muscular spasm of the sneeze itself! One spasm works against the other. The spasm we create to inhibit the sneeze can severely tighten our chest, our ribs and indeed injure our back or neck. So it's good to let the sneeze out and not stifle it. Let it out freely, but for the benefit of others, naturally we should mask it with our hands or turn away.
It's generally acknowledged that the loudness of our sneezes are directly linked to our health. For every extra 1.00 decibel of loudness, we create a 0.4 increase in healthy white blood cells in every hundred sneezes. That's good news as it helps our immune system, and as my sneezes can be heard around the block and set off car alarms, I vow not going to quieten down.
So the message is, if you're going to sneeze, let it out...let it be loud, and mask it or turn away to protect the health of others. Ear plug sales are going to soar....
