Breath Taking : 60 Breathing Techniques to Enhance Your Health and Joy of Living Book

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