# Stress Checklist

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- *Created: Sunday, May 15<sup>th</sup>, 2022*,&nbsp;<time>1:20 PM Jasper, British Columbia, Canada Time</time>

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This checklist relates to my current desire to control my depth of breathing, consistency of depth of breath, and to practice keeping my voice at a deeper tone, which I discovered is more natural to me, despite earlier experience since I was a teen.

Voice > Breathing > Chimpanzee Torso/limbs > Heavy Legs > Vacant Face (Dead or Sleep) > Talk through a topic of interest.

Volume Match > Sing to self > Dance 

Focus attention onto current project. E.g. Just now it was useful to transition to your thinking about the TIF file reduction.

False join in.

- Vibrate your chest with your voice. 
  - "Mattanaw, Mattanaw...." said in a very low tone, with slow bass vibrations.
  - "With, Withhhhhhhh..." also my own name, but allows for an even lower bass vibration.
- No catches along the way, smooth voice.
  - I noticed my higher pitched voice had tension somewhere in my upper respiratory tract, to create the pitch. Hard to detect.
  - When my voice shifts to higher pitch involuntarily out of habit, it feels like it "catchs" or somewhat "pinches" and closes the tract.
  - Speak "Low and Slowwwwww...." again and again, ensuring depth of voice, and smoothness along the respiratory tract, with no sense of "catches" or friction. This goal is less friction.
- Totally expanded stomach, like a child forcing a "pregnant stomach".
  - Your stomach is totally out, so there is limited compression. Force is outward and not inward.
  - "Low and slowww....."
  - "Mattanaw, Mattanaw...."
  - "With, With....."
  - All without removing the outward force the the stomach which is not related to breathing.
- Full deep breaths with stomach out.
  - No part of your lung feels obviously constricted or nonfunctioning.
  - Your lower left lung, especially, feel expanded.
  - A good sign is a burp.
- Vibrate your lower left and right chest with animal grunts.
  - Breathe outward and use a non-abrupt, smooth grunt, like an ox you've seen in a video online.
  - Use that same smooth grunt and combine it with a normal chest "hack" sound, that is smooth, for removing mucus.
  - Ensure you can vibrate the lower left and right of your chest, and
  - that some mucus is ejected.
  - A good sign is you can vibrate your chest in a way that is pleasant and tickles.
  - Another good sign is if it feels like there is no mucus inside after.
  - have fun, and feel like you are another primate that would have chest out doing the same.
  - stomach and lower chest should also be completely pressed outwards.
- Ask yourself if you had plain water to drink.
  - If not, drink at least 16 ounces of cool water (or whatever plain water you enjoy).
- Do your limbs feel as though they are heavy and dangling?
  _ Check your shoulders
  - Your arms, hands
  - Your legs, body (if in a chair),
  - Feet.
  - Good signs: You can fall through the chair and surfaces,
  - You feel like you can imitate a chimpanzee, in how they use their arms and how they sit.
  - (Resting chimpanzees look somwhat like a downward force is on them).
