{"id":11,"name":"Christian Goodman","url":"","description":"Hi, I'm Christian Goodman.\r\n\r\nI was born in Iceland in 1973 and trained as a therapist. Early in my career I learned something I've never been able to unlearn: most of what shows up in the body starts in the mind, the breath, and the tension we carry without realizing it.\r\n\r\nI learned it on myself the hard way.\r\n\r\nA few years into my practice, my own blood pressure climbed to 185\/129. I was the alternative health expert who couldn't fix his own health. I was eating well. I was exercising. I was taking every supplement on the shelf. And I was terrified \u2014 not of dying exactly, but of leaving my wife and children without me. I felt like the carpenter who couldn't build his own house.\r\n\r\nWhat finally pointed me toward an answer wasn't another supplement or another specialist. It was a quiet line of research out of Harvard Medical School \u2014 Dr. Herbert Benson's work on how a handful of simple mind\/body exercises can reset the brain's blood pressure control center.\r\n\r\nThe first time I sat down and did them, something in my chest unclenched that I hadn't realized was clenched. I'd been bracing against my own body for years. I refined what I learned over the following months into a daily practice I could teach other people.\r\n\r\nSnoring was the other one.\r\n\r\nI snored my whole life. As a married man, my wife and I ended up in separate bedrooms \u2014 and the resentment that grew in that silence nearly ended our marriage. The breakthrough came one morning over breakfast. My wife \u2014 a classical singer turned voice teacher \u2014 was listening to me describe my latest dead end when she stopped and said, \"That's what I teach my students every day.\" The very exercises she used to open up her singers' breathing passages were the ones I'd been searching for.\r\n\r\nThat's how most of my work has been born \u2014 in a kitchen, in a marriage, in a quiet moment with someone I love.\r\n\r\nToday I've written 13 programs covering everything from blood pressure to vertigo to insomnia to migraines. At the heart of most of them is the same conviction that started me on this path: that the body, given simple tools and a little attention each day, has a remarkable capacity to restore its own balance.\r\n\r\nIf any of this sounds familiar \u2014 the frustration, the shame, the feeling that you've tried everything the normal way and are quietly running out of options \u2014 then I wrote these programs for you. I'll take you by the hand and walk you, gently, toward something that feels a little easier.\r\n\r\nWarm regards,\r\nChristian","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/author\/christiang\/","slug":"christiang","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8060f301833612b5b4db45d444fd0c741f028445e990b988b6ca814dc0e28df6?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8060f301833612b5b4db45d444fd0c741f028445e990b988b6ca814dc0e28df6?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8060f301833612b5b4db45d444fd0c741f028445e990b988b6ca814dc0e28df6?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":{"jetpack_donation_warning_dismissed":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}