“Only by using your intelligence and putting the teachings into practice can they bring you happiness. Please base your practice on your own life and your own experiences — your successes and your failures.”

“When I was teetering on the brink, I was able to physically calm myself down with a few deep breaths…

The lungs are a mysterious and even mystical organ. They are…

“Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves …

“Rather than write an exhaustive book with hundreds of breath practices, we have selected a few that are easy to teach, easy to learn, safe, rapidly effective, and useful in many different aspects of life.”

“…They found that the higher a subject’s HRV was at the beginning, the easier and more quickly he or she could experience positive feelings over the next 9 weeks.”

The more you learn about breathing, the more this happens.

In every sense of the word.

It may be the most therapeutic “breathing exercise” of all 😊

“Our breathing is designed to help us release any tensions that have…

If the spirit is circulating, the breath is circulating…

It’s the study behind the “nose breathing increases oxygenation” line you see everywhere.

“More and more, I became convinced that our bodies are wired to benefit from exercising not only our muscles but our rich inner, human core — our beliefs, values, thoughts, and feelings.”

“The lungs are receiving a greater volume of blood as well, which, combined with the pressure that water exerts on the chest wall, makes them work harder to breathe—approximately 60% harder than on land. This means that aquatic exercise can strengthen the respiratory muscles and improve their efficiency.”

“Over thousands of years of evolution, fast and powerful pathways between the respiratory system and the brain have been established. If breathing stops, death occurs within minutes, and so the brain prioritizes messages from the lungs above all others.”

“World-class performers are less about complexity and more about optimizing simplicity…It’s about the fundamentals. But small, daily improvements on the fundamentals every day done with ridiculous consistency creates insane revolutions over time.”

“In this way, the breath is like a mirror that shows you the state you are in.”

“And beyond improving stress resilience, breath practices can restore your sense of being genuinely who you are…

“…the situation of people during Holotropic Breathwork very likely resembles that of being in high mountains, where there is less oxygen and the CO2 level is decreased by compensatory faster breathing…”

“You won’t find many quick fixes in this book, but there is one way to immediately boost willpower: Slow your breathing down to four to six breaths per minute…”