LESSON FIVE: take the good from every situation
One of the ways we can remove toxicity is through the secondary excretory system: breathing out carbon dioxide. The respiratory or breathing system has many roles: to provide oxygen used in the metabolism of organic molecules by the cells to provide energy via respiration. Another function is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the organism and the external environment. Carbon dioxide is the end-product of a metabolic reaction. Other functions of the respiratory system are: to form speech sounds, defends against microorganisms such as bacteria, monitor the hydrogen ion concentration in the blood pH in coordination with the kidneys, trap and dissolve blood clots from systemic veins in the legs and others.
When we breathe in air, we take in the experience as we climb up the mountains of life. We sometimes meet rocky steps and; sometimes smooth pathways. During the journey, all kinds of people are met. One thing I have learnt is that I can never be a perfectionist nor meet a perfectionist. We are prone to errors.
With every scenario or dilemma, there needs to be a gas exchange where just like how we breathe in oxygen and take out carbon dioxide, we need to learn to breathe in the good from every situation and bloom just like the flower springs and remove the bad. This helps to progress in life from every bad or testing or some would call challenging situation and develop from it. It is just like a black dot on a piece of plain white paper, it has a small diameter and small surface area, we tend to focus on the negative so closely in comparison; to the white paper because it is more apparent.
The breathing process is called inspiration - the movement of air enters from the external environment through the airways into tiny air-containing sacs called alveoli. Expiration is the term used for breathing. The amount of fresh air that enters and leaves the alveoli per minute for the adult at rest is 4 L. Ventilation is the term used to exchange the air between the atmosphere and the alveoli. Stable breathing is based upon transmural pressure (transpulmonary), the pressure inside and outside. At the end of expiration, the respiratory muscle relaxes, and no airflow occurs thus the transmural pressure is balanced.
The respiratory system contains two lungs: right and left situated in the thorax, between the neck and abdomen (stomach and intestines). The dome-shaped skeletal muscle called the diaphragm is what separates them. The wall of the thorax consists of the ribs, breastbone, and intercostal muscles muscle tissue. The Pleural sac contains pleural cells and layers between the wall and the diaphragm; the outermost layer is the visceral pleura. Cilia are hair-like structures that surround the respiratory tract and removes airborne particles, mucus, and microbes.
Oxygen is important for the lungs whereas, hope is needed to live. The cute thing about this is just like how Sonali Gupta mentioned, the lungs exist in pairs because -they Be-lung- to one another, just like how ears, eyes, kidneys, ovaries, testes, and other organs or glands are in pairs.
The upper airways consist of the nose, mouth, pharynx, and larynx. During inspiration, air passes through the mouth into the pharynx, where there are two tubes: the oesophagus (food pipe) that goes to the stomach and the larynx (to the airways). The larynx contains vocal cords made of 2-folds of elastic tissue stretched horizontally.
The larynx opens a long tube (trachea) to form two main branches called (bronchi). Within the lungs, each bronchus subdivides into smaller tubes called the bronchioles. The wall of the trachea and bronchi have rings of cartilage for support and provide the cylinder shape. At the end of the airways, the amount of alveoli increases in the alveoli duct, where gaseous exchange takes place with the blood. There are two types: Alveoli I cell and; Alveoli II flat epithelial cells.
Just like how the two tubes, windpipe and food pipe divide from the pharynx. It can mean two things from my perspective. From one end, it can represent the difference between professionalism and personal. During my journey, I made mistakes where I mixed them both - I was doing something I enjoy and seeing colleagues as friends in a professional environment not knowing the balance between approachable and friendly and being a friend. This led to me coughing a food bite that went to the windpipe causing restriction to the airways. This analogy is about getting hurt in a sense. No one can play the innocent nor give the blaming card because every one of us has areas of improvement. So, coughing is good to keep the breathing airway clean and the heart too.
Heart? Yes, the heart works well with the lungs via pulmonary circulation. The scarred heart still beats with a smile. It is meant to be because the left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart. These matters affect the lungs more than the surroundings.
Experiences toughen us up and turned me from a fool to an ex-fool. Yes - I admit I was a fool - I severely learnt the hard way like how damaged cells develop through growth and repair. When we reflect on some scenarios, we tend to laugh out loud to clear our lungs.
The shape of these bronchioles reminds me of trees - we take out carbon dioxide, but other living organisms such as the trees see the goodness of carbon dioxide and take it. If we destroy these trees, we are technically destroying Earth and; similarly, we destroy our lungs.
Another way of seeing the two tubes is the pathway in life which is constantly constructing and supported by cartilage and efforts. We tend to not know what road to take nor the adventures we are due to encounter.
I learnt to never map a journey with a pencil to rub out nor a pen to be permanent because sometimes it does not go to plan no matter how much you are focused and; the thing to remember is to accept this. Never fear the path just trust the Divine and enjoy the journey.
Just like how we inspire, we need to move forward and not backwards. Take the good from every situation.
When we breathe in air, we take in the experience as we climb up the mountains of life. We sometimes meet rocky steps and; sometimes smooth pathways. During the journey, all kinds of people are met. One thing I have learnt is that I can never be a perfectionist nor meet a perfectionist. We are prone to errors.
With every scenario or dilemma, there needs to be a gas exchange where just like how we breathe in oxygen and take out carbon dioxide, we need to learn to breathe in the good from every situation and bloom just like the flower springs and remove the bad. This helps to progress in life from every bad or testing or some would call challenging situation and develop from it. It is just like a black dot on a piece of plain white paper, it has a small diameter and small surface area, we tend to focus on the negative so closely in comparison; to the white paper because it is more apparent.
The breathing process is called inspiration - the movement of air enters from the external environment through the airways into tiny air-containing sacs called alveoli. Expiration is the term used for breathing. The amount of fresh air that enters and leaves the alveoli per minute for the adult at rest is 4 L. Ventilation is the term used to exchange the air between the atmosphere and the alveoli. Stable breathing is based upon transmural pressure (transpulmonary), the pressure inside and outside. At the end of expiration, the respiratory muscle relaxes, and no airflow occurs thus the transmural pressure is balanced.
The respiratory system contains two lungs: right and left situated in the thorax, between the neck and abdomen (stomach and intestines). The dome-shaped skeletal muscle called the diaphragm is what separates them. The wall of the thorax consists of the ribs, breastbone, and intercostal muscles muscle tissue. The Pleural sac contains pleural cells and layers between the wall and the diaphragm; the outermost layer is the visceral pleura. Cilia are hair-like structures that surround the respiratory tract and removes airborne particles, mucus, and microbes.
Oxygen is important for the lungs whereas, hope is needed to live. The cute thing about this is just like how Sonali Gupta mentioned, the lungs exist in pairs because -they Be-lung- to one another, just like how ears, eyes, kidneys, ovaries, testes, and other organs or glands are in pairs.
The upper airways consist of the nose, mouth, pharynx, and larynx. During inspiration, air passes through the mouth into the pharynx, where there are two tubes: the oesophagus (food pipe) that goes to the stomach and the larynx (to the airways). The larynx contains vocal cords made of 2-folds of elastic tissue stretched horizontally.
The larynx opens a long tube (trachea) to form two main branches called (bronchi). Within the lungs, each bronchus subdivides into smaller tubes called the bronchioles. The wall of the trachea and bronchi have rings of cartilage for support and provide the cylinder shape. At the end of the airways, the amount of alveoli increases in the alveoli duct, where gaseous exchange takes place with the blood. There are two types: Alveoli I cell and; Alveoli II flat epithelial cells.
Just like how the two tubes, windpipe and food pipe divide from the pharynx. It can mean two things from my perspective. From one end, it can represent the difference between professionalism and personal. During my journey, I made mistakes where I mixed them both - I was doing something I enjoy and seeing colleagues as friends in a professional environment not knowing the balance between approachable and friendly and being a friend. This led to me coughing a food bite that went to the windpipe causing restriction to the airways. This analogy is about getting hurt in a sense. No one can play the innocent nor give the blaming card because every one of us has areas of improvement. So, coughing is good to keep the breathing airway clean and the heart too.
Heart? Yes, the heart works well with the lungs via pulmonary circulation. The scarred heart still beats with a smile. It is meant to be because the left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart. These matters affect the lungs more than the surroundings.
Experiences toughen us up and turned me from a fool to an ex-fool. Yes - I admit I was a fool - I severely learnt the hard way like how damaged cells develop through growth and repair. When we reflect on some scenarios, we tend to laugh out loud to clear our lungs.
The shape of these bronchioles reminds me of trees - we take out carbon dioxide, but other living organisms such as the trees see the goodness of carbon dioxide and take it. If we destroy these trees, we are technically destroying Earth and; similarly, we destroy our lungs.
Another way of seeing the two tubes is the pathway in life which is constantly constructing and supported by cartilage and efforts. We tend to not know what road to take nor the adventures we are due to encounter.
I learnt to never map a journey with a pencil to rub out nor a pen to be permanent because sometimes it does not go to plan no matter how much you are focused and; the thing to remember is to accept this. Never fear the path just trust the Divine and enjoy the journey.
Just like how we inspire, we need to move forward and not backwards. Take the good from every situation.
