Science of Breath
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:
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
--James Baldwin
Thanks for reposting this… it slipped through my comments crack once having deleted them all. I appreciate and am considering an attempt at this method if I can ever convince myself of imposed quiet time. It’s like quiting smoking though. Really hard.
Comment by Deirdre — 2/1/2006 @ 8:08 pm
Anything for you, D. 😉
Start small. Also, keep in mind this book is less than 100 pages, so it’s not as hard as it looks at first. Just take it slow and remember that this is a process. The benefits come with time and not over night. Like so many, many things…
Comment by the Network Geek — 2/1/2006 @ 8:11 pm