Description
Book SynopsisPurposefulBreathing is a practical, user-friendly guide to simplebreathing skills that can rapidly reduce states you don''t want (such as stressand anxiety) and increase states you do want (such as feeling stronger,performing better or relaxing).
The breath is aremarkably powerful mind-body connection. Anxiety, anger, deep calm or steadyconcentration each have their own patterns of breathing and we move betweendifferent styles of breathing every day without usually realizing it. If we canrecognize these styles of breathing, we can also consciously change them andthis in turn produces change in the emotional state.
People usually think of thoughts,feelings and physical states as different things, but if we think of movingbetween different & modes'' - survival mode, calm modes, anxious states - then itis easy to see that ways of thinking, feeling, perceiving and breathing are allinterlinked. The breath can then be used as the key to change these modes.
For anyone suffering from anxiety, feeling calmer can happen in a breath or two. For anyone wanting to boostperformance, the right breathing skills will help them to get into & the zone''of peak performance.Purposeful Breathingalso teaches breathing skills for longer term health and healing, all of whichare informed by new discoveries from psychology and neuroscience.
