Diary of a Network Geek

The trials and tribulations of a Certified Novell Engineer who's been stranded in Houston, Texas.

2/1/2006

Science of Breath

Filed under: Advice from your Uncle Jim,Criticism, Marginalia, and Notes,Deep Thoughts,Life, the Universe, and Everything,Personal,Things to Read — Posted by the Network Geek during the Hour of the Horse which is around lunchtime or 12:48 pm for you boring, normal people.
The moon is Waning Gibbous

The Science of Breath is online!
I’ve talked about this book before, both on-line and off. It’s very, very hard to find in print anymore, so when I found it on the web, I was really excited. It does seem to have been reprinted under the title “The Hindu Yogi Science of Breath: A Complete Manual of the Oriental Breathing Philosophy of Physical, Mental, Psychic and Spiritual Development“, but I can’t tell you if there have been revisions or not. The one on-line is the original one that I actually have and use. Now, as you can tell from the rather lengthy title of the second, reprint, edition, this is a Yogic discipline. All life flows from breath, they say, and this book helps you maximize both, breath and life. I find the exercises quite calming and relaxing, which, in my high-stress line of work, has come in handy more than once. Not to mention all the Yogi breathing I was doing during my over-extended divorce. In fact, anyone who’s going through that or about to go through that kind of thing could do worse than to start practicing the breathing exercises now, before the tension really starts to rise.
Anyway, I’ve reccomended this book to several people in the past and thought I’d post a link to it so they can find it for free. Hopefully, it will help. Enjoy!


Advice from your Uncle Jim:
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
   --Ralph Waldo Emerson


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