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Free Your Breath, Free Your Life: How Conscious Breathing Can Relieve Stress, Increase Vitality, and Help You ...
Dennis Lewis
Shambhala
, 2004 - 208 pages
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highly recommended
This book will s
how
you
how being aware of
your
breath
ing
can
have a profound impact on your physical and emotional health in a most positive way. Whether you are interested in
stress
reduction, easing a chronic
breathing
problem, or exploring the
more
spiritual aspects of breathing practice, this illustrated guide will provide you with practical, simple exercises to calm, energize, and generally enhance your sense of well-being. The author, Dennis Lewis, also shows how becoming more
conscious
of your breathing can reveal a lot about your self-image and
help
you deal more effectively with difficult emotions and situations.
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The One Thing That Will Never Leave Us...
Our
breath
is the only thing that is with us from beginning to end...the breath is who and what we are...the breath is interconnected with Spirit and every time we breathe in and every time we breathe out, we are
breathing
in and out the One Creative Power that creates all of
life
out of Itself...
The breath does not judge. The breath does not condemn. It is the breath's job to sustain us at all times. I dare
you
to sit and breathe deeply for one hour. I betcha
can
't do it. If all of us decided to just spend one hour breathing deeply in and breathing deeply out, this world would be transformed in a day...it really would...because deep breathing calms us, centers us, awakens those parts of us that we have stuffed, repressed, or have just wanted to forget.
I've gotten to about 26 minutes of deep breathing and I cried like a baby. I had such stirring memories - future as well as past - as to what life could truly be about. Just like the book says, when we
free
our breath, we free our life.
That shallow little nose and mouth breath we do is not breathing, just like those Chicken McNuggets and that extra large coke is not sustenance. We need to spend time nourishing our bodies, our minds, our hearts, and our souls in ways that replenish us and awaken us to the beauty that just sits and waits for us to finally notice...
Breathe!
I mean, really, really breathe...it is a gift...it is the gift.
Peace & Blessings.
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Choosing Life through the Breath
We all know that we cease to be a
live
when we
can
no longer
breath
e. Dennis Lewis,
how
ever, understands that we cease to truly live when we are not
conscious
ly choosing to connect with our breath. Living the fullest expression of ourselves requires expanding our self knowledge, along with the expansion of our
breathing
. Mystics through the ages have understood this concept, and Lewis illustrates it beauti
fully
in his book.
You
will learn ways to support
your
spirit, mind, body and heart through conscious breathing, and thus be much better prepared for change and challenges in your
life
.
Marcia Breitenbach, Transformation Specialist, speaker, author and songwriter [...]
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A requirement for my students! Highly Recommended!
Author Dennis Lewis has created a masterpiece with "
Free
You
r
Breath
, Free
Your
Life
". In the society in which we function, everyone seems to forget about the mind, body and spirit, which truly begin with the breath. We could all
live
a higher quality of life, be healthier and happier if only we'd find a way to
relieve
the main cause of our negativity. That cause is
stress
. The best alternative in my mind is to learn
how
to breathe again,
breathing
free like when we were babies. Breathing freely allows us to release mental and physical stress. But the key is to find a way to reconnect to that type of breathing.
Luckily for us, Dennis has created a simple roadmap that leads us back to free breathing. What separates this book from the tons of others I've read on breathing is that it doesn't take the same approach for each individual. It presents seven different methods of breathing specifically tailored to the individuals needs and presented in highly detailed and descriptive terms so that there is no confusion to exactly how to apply this process. And the great part is they are simple to perform so they won't feel like you `have' to do them. Once you've mastered these exercises, this method of breathing will become second nature...just like breathing;)
Through these methods, you
can
easily reconnect to effortless breathing in order to heal the mind and body. Dennis allows us to free our breath so as to infuse our bodies with oxygen to improve overall health and allow us to release stagnant air from the lungs to relieve physical and mental stress (as well as release old emotions I believe) while
help
ing us to open up breathing spaces in our body we were never aware of using a multitude of methods including postures, sounds and physical touch. This is such a simple way to improve the quality of your life. Who wouldn't want such an simple, easy way to have a better quality life?
Free Your Breath, Free Your Life also includes three appendixes giving us further detailed information of important breathing methods such as inhaling through the nose, standing postures and exercises for alleviating pain. If you want to improve your quality of life, begin with the breath and begin with Dennis Lewis.
I am an author of a breathing book myself, which is an exercise system for singers and speakers to improve vocal power. I feel that this book works well with my singing methods because Dennis' books fills in all the gaps I've left out in mine. While I am showing people how to sing better through breathing, he is showing people how to live better through breathing. I am making this book a requisite for all of my students!
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Breathing towards a better life
One of the greatest aspects of Lewis's book is the fact that the author used the word awareness as a key element to improve
you
r
breath
ing. Most techniques used in
breathing
advise people to learn
how
to deep breathily without being
conscious
of what is happening during the process.
Therefore, one
can
optimize ones breathing by simply paying attention to it. Becoming aware of
your
breathing and body movement will teach you deep breathing efficiently and naturally.
This book has taught me how to handle
stress
ful situation. Instead of trying to rapidly change my breathing I started to calm down by simply being aware of my breathing, analyzing it. So in a couple of minutes I end up feeling completely changed.
Therefore, throughout the day the
more
you pay attention to your breathing the more you improve your
life
quality. However, in order to obtain optimum results it is essential to do the exercises shown in the book.
Speaking of breathing exercises (known by the experts as breathing experiments) I would also recommend Ways to Better Breathing by Carola Speads. Speads`book is my favorite.
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