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Introduces a series of breathing techniques and exercises that are designed to enhance awareness, promote relaxation, improve performance, and focus concentration to improve the quality of one's life.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: The Joy of Breathing	p. xi
How Do You Know You Are Breathing?	p. 1
Become Intimate with Breath	p. 2
The Breath Experience	p. 4
Open Your Senses	p. 6
Breath-Taking Benefits	p. 8
Personalize Your Breath Experience	p. 9
The Forces That Move Us	p. 11
Notice the Nose, Lips, and Mouth	p. 13
The Conscious Dimension	p. 14
Take 10 Conscious Breaths	p. 15
The Multisensory Breath	p. 18
Bless Each Sense	p. 19
Extending Attention	p. 21
Come to Your Senses	p. 22
Animal Instincts	p. 24
Listen to Your Instincts	p. 26
A Constellation Of Instincts	p. 28
Breathe with Each Instinct	p. 29
Stress	p. 31
Breathe with Stress	p. 32
Attack Of The Dreaded To-Do List	p. 34
Relax, Don't Do It	p. 35
Safe Breath	p. 36
Explore Up and Down	p. 37
Beginner's Mind	p. 39
Caress Yourself Inside	p. 40
Don't Mind The Chaos	p. 42
Revel in Your Joy	p. 43
Learn Through Playing	p. 45
Explore Left and Right	p. 46
Free To Breathe	p. 48
Stretch and Yawn	p. 49
Breathing Paradoxically	p. 50
Take a Belly Breath	p. 51
Deeper Than Sleep	p. 52
Breathe with Pleasure	p. 53
All Day, Every Day	p. 55
Pause to Breathe on Each Threshold	p. 56
Luminous Reality	p. 57
Awaken to the Inner Fire	p. 59
The Breath Cycle	p. 60
Explore Turning Motions	p. 61
Seeing Isn't Breathing	p. 63
Visualize the Breath	p. 64
The Dance Of Breath	p. 65
Witness the Play of Thoughts and Silence	p. 67
A Multidimensional Path To The Self	p. 68
Notice Multidimensional Motion	p. 70
Gusto	p. 72
Explore Your Favorite Smells	p. 73
Hunger	p. 75
Honor Hunger	p. 76
Explore All Your Hungers	p. 78
Secret Cravings	p. 79
Cherish Scents	p. 80
The Smoking Section	p. 82
Draw Breath Instead	p. 85
Disgust	p. 87
Explore What Disgusts You	p. 88
The Speed Of Thoughts	p. 90
Slow Down	p. 91
Where Does Your Mind Go When It Wanders?	p. 93
Follow Your Wandering Mind	p. 95
At Home At The Ocean	p. 96
Make Yourself at Home	p. 97
At Starbucks In Malibu	p. 99
Wake Up to the Smell of Your Coffee	p. 100
The Song Of Breath	p. 101
Listen to the Sounds of Breath	p. 102
Oh, Those Vowel Sounds	p. 104
Mouth the Vowel Sounds	p. 105
Act Out Primal Speech	p. 106
Jazz Your Breath	p. 107
Activating Your Energy Centers	p. 108
Lay Your Hands On--Yoursel	p. 110
Full-Body Flow	p. 112
Do a Daily Emotion Scan	p. 114
The Magnetic Body	p. 116
Breathe Magnetism	p. 118
Energy Flow In Everyday Life	p. 119
Explore the Palms of Your Hands	p. 121
The Craving For Stillness	p. 123
Dance, Then Lie Still	p. 124
Body Wisdom	p. 125
Explore Your Breath Tempo	p. 126
The Pulse Of A Day	p. 128
Lighten Up	p. 129
The Rapture Of Breath	p. 131
Fill Yourself, and Empty	p. 132
Expansion And Contraction	p. 133
Do the Dance of Expansion and Contraction	p. 134
Breath Is Love	p. 135
Experience Breath as Love	p. 137
Ride The Waves Of Emotion	p. 138
Exercise Your Ha-Ha Hee-Hee Ho-Ho Muscle	p. 140
Expressing Yourself	p. 141
Recall Times You've Been Emotional	p. 142
Music To Breathe By	p. 144
Breathe with Music	p. 146
The Emotional Charge Of Thoughts	p. 147
Feel the Charge	p. 148
Desire	p. 149
Welcome Desire Itself	p. 150
The Delicate Touch Of Air	p. 152
Go with the Flow	p. 153
The Smell Of Sex	p. 154
Pause in the Midst of Lovemaking	p. 155
The Erotic Massage Of Breath	p. 156
Explore Erotic Breath	p. 158
Share a Breath	p. 160
When Desire Is Blocked	p. 162
Breathe with Anger	p. 163
Match Your Anger	p. 164
Fear	p. 166
Match Your Fear	p. 167
Sorrow	p. 169
Sink into Sorrow	p. 170
Holding It All Together	p. 172
Fall Apart for a Minute	p. 173
Breathe With The World You Want To See	p. 175
Breathe with the Sun	p. 177
Breathe with the Wind	p. 178
Breathe with the Colors	p. 178
Breathe with the Vastness	p. 179
Turning Toward	p. 181
Breathe with the Rhythm of a Prayer	p. 183
Every Breath A Prayer	p. 185
Bask in Gratitude for Each Breath	p. 186
Become a Living Soul	p. 187
Lift Your Hands to Heaven	p. 188
Renewing Your Contact With Life	p. 189
Gratitude: Explorations	p. 191
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Breath Taking : 60 Breathing Techniques to Enhance Your Health and Joy of Living

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