PublishedExisle Publishing, September 2020 |
ISBN9781925820591 |
FormatSoftcover, 216 pages |
Dimensions22.9cm × 15.2cm |
Purposeful
Breathing is a practical, user-friendly guide to simple
breathing skills that can rapidly reduce states you don't want (such as stress
and anxiety) and increase states you do want (such as feeling stronger,
performing better or relaxing).
The breath is a
remarkably powerful mind-body connection. Anxiety, anger, deep calm or steady
concentration each have their own patterns of breathing and we move between
different styles of breathing every day without usually realizing it. If we can
recognize these styles of breathing, we can also consciously change them and
this 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 moving
between different 'modes' - survival mode, calm modes, anxious states - then it
is easy to see that ways of thinking, feeling, perceiving and breathing are all
interlinked. 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 boost
performance, the right breathing skills will help them to get into 'the zone'
of peak performance. Purposeful Breathing
also teaches breathing skills for longer term health and healing, all of which
are informed by new discoveries from psychology and neuroscience.
