Things I Learned While Breathing on a Regular Basis

Things I Learned While Breathing on a Regular Basis
Author: Bill Kirvan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2015-10-29
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1504954297

Why would someone who in his early academic years was a C minus student in all subjects relating to the English language write a book? My beginning started when I realized what going to basketball camp in the fourth grade meant to me. Finding something that infatuated me and over time, making slow and steady progress while doing something I loved, was an eye opener. I didnt mind the effort required to become a better player. The next important step was getting married and understanding how important is was to have a sense of purpose. I was part of team that was raising a family. A sense of purpose is a great motivator. My final driver was realizing my children and grandchildren should understand that I wasnt a grandfather from birth. Growing up is filled with a multitude of highs and lows, and it is important to move forward, taking the good with the bad. I wanted to give them a taste of the things I learned over time. In the early stages of life, so many young people have absolutely no clue as how much they will learn, growing physically and intellectually as they advance from teenagers to young adulthood. My suggestion is, find something you love to do early in life and decide to be very good in your field. There are no losses from this strategy as you will find something meant for you or something to stay away from. For me, it was important I stay away from engineering.

Learning to Breathe

Learning to Breathe
Author: Patricia C. Broderick
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1684036739

A fully revised and updated second edition, including new research and skills in the areas of trauma and compassion Disruptive behavior in the classroom, poor academic performance, and out-of-control emotions: if you work with adolescents, you are well-aware of the challenges this age group presents, as well as how much time can be lost on your lessons while dealing with this behavior. What if there was a way to calm these students down and arm them with the mindfulness skills needed to really excel in school and life? Written by mindfulness expert and licensed clinical psychologist Patricia C. Broderick, Learning to Breathe is a secular program that tailors the teaching of mindfulness to the developmental needs of adolescents to help them understand their thoughts and feelings and manage distressing emotions. Students will be empowered by learning important mindfulness meditation skills that help them improve emotion regulation, reduce stress, improve overall performance, and, perhaps most importantly, develop their attention. Since its publication nearly a decade ago, the L2B program has transformed classrooms across the US, and has received praise from educators, parents, and mental health professionals alike. This fully revised and updated second edition offers the same powerful mindfulness interventions, and includes compelling new research and skills in the areas of trauma and compassion. The book integrates certain themes of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, into a program that is shorter, more accessible to students, and compatible with school curricula. This easy-to-use manual is designed to be used by teachers, but can also be used by any mental health provider teaching adolescents emotion regulation, stress reduction and mindfulness skills. The book is structured around six themes built upon the acronym BREATHE, and each theme has a core message: Body, Reflection, Emotions, Attention, Tenderness, and Healthy Mind Habits, and Empowerment. Along with The Learning to Breathe Student Workbook, this is the perfect tool for empowering students as they grapple with the psychological tasks of adolescence. Make this new edition a part of your professional library today!

The Oxygen Advantage

The Oxygen Advantage
Author: Patrick McKeown
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0062349481

A simple yet revolutionary approach to improving your body’s oxygen use, increasing your health, weight loss, and sports performance—whether you’re a recovering couch potato or an Ironman triathlon champion. With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Dr. Joseph Mercola. Achieve more with less effort: The secret to weight loss, fitness, and wellness lies in the most basic and most overlooked function of your body—how you breathe. One of the biggest obstacles to better health and fitness is a rarely identified problem: chronic over-breathing. We often take many more breaths than we need—without realizing it—contributing to poor health and fitness, including a host of disorders, from anxiety and asthma to insomnia and heart problems. In The Oxygen Advantage, the man who has trained over 5,000 people—including Olympic and professional athletes—in reduced breathing exercises now shares his scientifically validated techniques to help you breathe more efficiently. Patrick McKeown teaches you the fundamental relationship between oxygen and the body, then gets you started with a Body Oxygen Level Test (BOLT) to determine how efficiently your body uses oxygen. He then shows you how to increase your BOLT score by using light breathing exercises and learning how to simulate high altitude training, a technique used by Navy SEALs and professional athletes to help increase endurance, weight loss, and vital red blood cells to dramatically improve cardio-fitness. Following his program, even the most out-of-shape person (including those with chronic respiratory conditions such as asthma) can climb stairs, run for a bus, or play soccer without gasping for air, and everyone can achieve: Easy weight loss and weight maintenance Improved sleep and energy Increased concentration Reduced breathlessness during exercise Heightened athletic performance Improved cardiovascular health Elimination of asthmatic symptoms, and more. With The Oxygen Advantage, you can look better, feel better, and do more—it’s as easy as breathing.

Breath

Breath
Author: James Nestor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0735213631

A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

Learning to Breathe

Learning to Breathe
Author: Priscilla Warner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 143918108X

"A funny memoir of Faith Club coauthor's serious attempt to change her brain from panic to peace in a year-long spiritual quest"--

Modern Mindfulness

Modern Mindfulness
Author: Rohan Gunatillake
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1250116422

In Modern Mindfulness, Rohan Gunatillake argues that to lead more mindful, calm and happy lives, switching off is the last thing we need to do. Instead he gives readers ideas, principles, and techniques to bring awareness, composure, and kindness whatever they are doing. Filled with over sixty practical exercises, the author’s mobile mindfulness approach gives the benefits of meditation to even the busiest of lives. Ideas from Modern Mindfulness: - Learn to fade out instead just falling asleep - Learn to watch TV mindfully (yes, it’s possible!) - Make mobility part of mindfulness (we’re always on the move!) - Use technology for good instead of evil (no need to do a digital detox). - Learn to “whack-a-thought” and stay centered

Salutations from Heaven

Salutations from Heaven
Author: Evangelist Debra V. Harper
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2019-02-14
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 179601446X

Are you one who has difficulty in expressing yourself? Has past hurts caused you to build up a wall of defense to protect you from feeling any future hurt, pain, or emotional anguish? Are you numbed to any feeling at all? Do you desire to release those feelings and emotions that have been bottled up for so long and have held you captive, angry, confused, and in bondage? Then this is the book for you. Read how God has blessed me to communicate and release unto him my innermost thoughts and fears by writing personal letters and poetry through the most difficult times in my life. Salutations from Heaven: Dear Lord . . . My Child . . . contains healing conversations of a once broken and wounded spirit that will hopefully open your mind and heart to the delivering power of heaven’s throne, transforming your soul to finding God’s love, joy, peace, and forgiveness.

Move Past Your Past

Move Past Your Past
Author: Alice Parker
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-01-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1546224793

Most of my numerous past lives, Ive been a teacher/trainer. So much of the information in this book has been given to me by my Angel Guides. The rest is from teachers, guides, or classes Ive had, as well as life experiences of my past and my current life as a teacher/trainer. I have learned and believe that more than 90 percent of all our problems, unhappinesseven paincomes from our past experiences. So its time to let it go, and Ill show you how! I believe there are only two emotionslove and fear. Other emotions and feelings are derivatives of them, with love being the powerful positive and fear the negative. I also believe the opposite of love is not hate, but apathy. Hate has emotions attached, but apathy is not caringits the absence of emotions. And I believe love is more powerful than fear or hate, as it can overcome them when the love is honest. To reach a point of you being happy means to learn how to releaseto let go of all your past stuff through steps in this book with exercises. While I will repeatedly say that change and everything else is a choice, most people wont accept that. They rationalize or believe their obligations or whatever will not allow them to do so. But as you read through the seventy various directed parts and try some of the exercises, you will see how truly amazing being free from your past can be. This is not about organized religion; its my thirty years in spirituality. Its found within a few religions, but no religion is within spirituality. It is considered the singular, personal connection to Mother/Father God/Universe-Source, since that power is within each individual to have and use as promised through the Holy Spirit. This is about finding ones own path for your destined journey. Author of the Memoir, Choices, Changes & Friends: 1970s After Divorce, with degrees in psychology, marketing, and English bilingualbi-cultural studies in graduate school. Ive traveled to thirty-six countries and forty states. I lived in six and in Japan for seven years as a corporate business trainer. I worked ten years in HR management in San Francisco and as a life coach-teacher.

Story Stretchers

Story Stretchers
Author: Shirley C. Raines
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1989
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780876591192

Activities for 90 different children's books, covering time, art, cooking and snack time, creative dramatics, housekeeping and dress-up, music, movement, block building, science fun, nature study, library, mathematics (math fun).

You’Ve Set a Goal ... Now What?

You’Ve Set a Goal ... Now What?
Author: Sylvia Daines
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2011-01-14
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1450272142

If someone asked you if you wanted money, perfect health, or your dream home, what would you decide? People feel forced to choose between such things every day, but you dont have to decidebecause you can have them all! All it takes is the proper goal setting strategies. Sylvia Daines, a successful salesperson and entrepreneur, explains how you can unlock the treasure chest where your goals are stored in this users guide to achieving your dreams. Filled with inspiring stories, Youve Set a Goal Now What? will equip you with the tools you need to plot a path that leads to increased cash flow, excellent health and much more. Topics include: the importance of visualization; working with natures laws; the conscious and subconscious minds; why attitude is so important methods to build self-esteem. Learn how to use the tools you already have at your disposal with this guide to achievement that makes goal setting a way of life. Discover how to achieve everything you want with Youve Set a Goal Now What?