The Tibetan Yoga of Breath, by Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo is really such a great book and is a book anyone can benefit from no matter what spiritual path you follow.
Stating many things I have learned through the years of yoga training, it puts it in such a perfect way, that you know that your health and happiness will improve just by learning to breath better.
The first part of the book has chapters that explain in detail, yet easy to understand the physiological aspects of breathing, how it effects us, and the connection between stress, anxiety and depression. It gives information on the difference between self acceptance and self attachment and how "our strong feelings and neuroses rise up upon a rush of wind energy, or how we can become emotionally stuck when our wind energy is stagnant."(p.57) This can keep us in an unhealthy place.
In part two there are exercises to help practice proper breathing and breath awareness with basic wind energy techniques, meditating on impermanence with breath awareness, unlocking old patterns through wind energy training and breathing through life's suffering.
The conclusion helps to say it all, Breath is Wisdom.
"Wind energy training is such an easy and powerful practice that it is accessible to everyone - if only for the simple reason that we must breathe to stay alive." (p.122)
Namaste.
Pamela Nelson
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