Book 411
Nicholas Heath
The Stress Prescription: Seven Days to More Joy ...

What You’ll Learn: 

1.    What Meditation Is & Its Overall Goal

2.    Well-Being, Telomerase, and Adaptive Functioning

3.    The Emotional Benefits of Meditation

4.    Brain Changes from Meditation 

1 Life-Changing Idea

How to End a Breathing, Meditation, Reading, or Really Any Contemplative Practice

Book 411
Nicholas Heath
The Healing Power of Meditation: Leading ...

What You’ll Learn: 

1.    What Meditation Is & Its Overall Goal

2.    Well-Being, Telomerase, and Adaptive Functioning

3.    The Emotional Benefits of Meditation

4.    Brain Changes from Meditation 

1 Life-Changing Idea

How to End a Breathing, Meditation, Reading, or Really Any Contemplative Practice

Book 411
Nicholas Heath
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation ...

What You’ll Learn:

1.    Altered Traits and the Real Goal of Meditation

2.    The “State-by-Trait” Effect: Cautionary and Inspirational

3.    Physical Health Effects: Lower Inflammation & Breathing Rates

4.    The Biggest Benefits are Psychological

 

1 Life-Changing Idea
All Paths Are the Same

Book 411
Nicholas Heath
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of ...

What You’ll Learn:

1.    What is Full Catastrophe Living?

2.    Why Breathing is the Fundamental Anchor for Mindfulness

3.    The Metaphorical Benefits of Belly Breathing for Stability

4.    Why It Works: Breathing is No Longer Just Breathing

1 Life-Changing Idea


Remembered Wholeness

Book 411
Nicholas Heath
Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, ...

What You’ll Learn:

1.    Attention is Everything (and yours is perfect)

2.    The Only Thing That Works: Mindfulness

3.    The Flashlight, Floodlight, and Juggler

4.    You Actually Have to Train (but not long—the most important finding of the book)

 

1 Life-Changing Idea


Pre-silience: Maybe the Best Word and Concept Ever

oxygen

Three Steps to Awakening: A Practice for Bringing Mindfulness to Life

What You’ll Learn: 

1.    The Power of Breath Awareness (‘a joyful abiding in the here and now’)

2.    How to Practice Breath Awareness

3.    Life is the Real Practice

4.    The Proof is in the Pudding (plus some ‘ouch’ teaching)

1 Life-Changing Idea
The Best Advice on Methods (plus long beards)

The Tibetan Yoga of Breath: Breathing Practices for Healing the Body and Cultivating Wisdom

What You’ll Learn:

1.    Why Breathing is the Best Tool for Healing and Transcending Suffering

2.    Rlung Sems: The Breath-Mind Connection

3.    How We Should Breathe: Nasally and Abdominally

4.    The Basic Sequence of a Wind-Energy Training Session

 

1 Life-Changing Idea
The Breath-Weather Connection

The Oxygen Advantage: The Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques for a Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter You

What You’ll Learn:

1. An Abundance of Overbreathing

2. How to Assess Overbreathing: The BOLT Score

3. How to Fix Overbreathing: The Nose and Breathe Light to Breathe Right

4. Improve Performance with the Simulation of High Altitude

1 Life-Changing Idea

The Power of Carbon Dioxide: Oxygen and the Bohr Effect

Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs

“That oxygen, life, and lungs all came into our world in relatively close succession is no coincidence. Only with oxygen and some means of extracting it are all things possible—thinking, moving, eating, speaking, and loving. Life and the breath are synonymous.”