I stopped breathing.

Why am I wasting my breath?

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I hold my breath, yeah it's painful

A kid like that takes my breath away.

After the train doors closed, I sighed in relief.

I'll go now.

And I was shivering.

Anna, you quite take my breath away.

I spit my last breath at thee, thou damned whale!

David Blaine How I held my breath for 17 min

And I would hold, immediately after, for five and half minutes.

Whew! I need to go catch my breath.

And I would hold, immediately after, for five and a half minutes.

Photo by Juan Arellano You want to see museums in Quito? They leave me breathless.

The thinner I was, the longer I was able to hold my breath.

I wanted to try holding my breath everywhere.

I asked you if my breath still smelled like vomit.

I was able to hold my breath for three minutes and 30 seconds.

In four months of training,

If our eyes meet and they barge in, I would hold my breath, or something like that.

I want to hold my breath for a really long time. How could it be done?

To actually try to hold my breath past the point that doctors would consider you brain dead.

And I was shivering. In my first attempt to hold my breath I couldn't even last a minute.

To me you are no longer... the desperately necessary entity that I needed like before.

But to put me against another life and my breath could kill me as fast as I kill the enemy.

I would wake up and the first thing that I would do is I would hold my breath for, out of 52 minutes, I would hold my breath for 44 minutes.

In four months of training I was able to hold my breath for over seven minutes.

My first attempt on pure O2, I was able to go up to 15 minutes.

By the time I was a teenager I was able to hold my breath for three minutes and 30 seconds.

So, I had to add handcuffs, while holding my breath, to escape from.

Finally, for me, it feels like there's a point to this bizarre gift I have, of quite looking pretty and holding my breath.

I would get comfortable in that situation and I would slow my metabolism, which I was sure would help me hold my breath

I told her that I wanted to up the ante and hold my breath longer than any human being ever had.

Normally, I would start at 38 beats per minute, and while holding my breath, it would drop to 12 beats per minute, which is pretty unusual.

Every morning, this is for months, I would wake up and the first thing that I would do is I would hold my breath for, out of 52 minutes, I would hold my breath for 44 minutes.

After I rested a bit, they started asking me about my arrest story. nezrad That same day, five detainees were brought into the cell and the torture marks were clear on their bodies.

I hope that if it is really my Last Breath I wish it can do more, to people living under a constant fear, and fighting for a better life. For them and their community.

I need to put as much oxygen in my blood as possible so that I can hold my breath for the 3.5 to 4 minutes that the dive is going to take me.

So, normally I would start at 38 beats per minute, and while holding my breath it would drop to 12 beats per minute, which is pretty unusual.

And I don't know when or how it happened, but the speed at which I went from being a talented writer and journalist to being a homeless woman, living in a van, took my breath away.

He pushed the glass door with such force that all the panes rang he stepped out, and I held my breath, straining my ears without knowing what else I expected to hear.

...They shut my mouth so that I don't speak and they hit Maha al Duhayan very hard and they even pushed her and she fell on her face...

I assumed that I could put a water tank at Lincoln center and if I stayed there a week not eating, I would get comfortable in that situation and I would slow my metabolism, which I was sure would help me hold my breath longer than I had been able to do it.