What You’ll Learn:
1. Breathe Through Your Nose
2. Exhale to Increase Lung Capacity?
3. Slow, Less, and the Perfect Breath
4. Breathing+: Sometimes Fast, Sometimes Not at All
1 Life-Changing Idea
Chew
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
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
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
THE 4 THOUGHTS:
1. Remembered Wellness: How to Harness the Power of the Mind
2. The Faith Factor = Relaxation Response + Remembered Wellness
3. Brush Your Teeth and Heal
4. Let Go and Believe: It’s Profound Medicine
1 LIFE-CHANGING IDEA:
To Understand the Healing Power of the Body and Mind, Do the Opposite
What You’ll Learn:
1. What is the Relaxation Response and Why Is It So Powerful?
2. Phase One: Eliciting the Relaxation Response (and the RR+ technique I use)
3. Phase Two: Visualization and the Power of the Mind
4. The Holistic Healing Power of the Relaxation Response
Life-Changing Idea
Remembered Wellness for Visualization
“There is, however, a scientifically proven, safe, natural way to rewire your body’s baseline stress response and optimize your health and performance. The breathing exercises and peak performance strategies described in Heart Breath Mind will take you on a journey from merely surviving stress to thriving despite it.”