This 'new' browser, (new to me) has a nice set of config choices, including a few different extensions. The one extension that caught my eye is one which gets you to take a break for a minute, think of something other than what you were doing, and gives you the option of taking a breathing exercise for a minute. That breathing exercise part especially interests me, because I'm one of those slow learners who won himself an oxygen tank on a two-wheeled little carrier, after only 60 years of supporting the tobacco industry. And I wasn't even on the Christmas card list from the MacDonald Tobacco Co., the damned ingrates.
And you choose the Breathing Exercise line (Just click the text there, it's a button, really.) And that will bring up a series of live pages of instructions and graphics for the one-minute Breathing Exercise. Just do what each new window tells you to do, and watch the graphic for the timing of each breath or exhalation, and when the one minute is over, you get a window with a 'Repeat' symbol in it, in case you'd like to continue for more that just one minute.
And that's all there is to it! If you take nice big breaths, watching the expanding graphic, and then slowly exhale, again watching the shrinking graphic, so that your timing is right, then you get a good one-minute refresher, which breaks the monotony of whatever you were into on the computer, and as they tell us, the increased oxygen is good for your brain, and in turn, all the rest of you. We are what we breathe, to a degree we don't usually think about. Breathing is one of those automatic processes, we're told. But it sometimes needs a little 'manual control' so to speak, to make sure we aren't holding our breath as we work, or in other words 'running on fumes' instead of full lungs. Try it - It's fun! It's also good for you, but what kid ever wants to hear that? Think of it as 'paid sick leave'. 😊
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