Breathing: Expanding Your Power and Energy

by Michael Sky

Long used by meditators as a way to inner peace, health, and vitality, intentional breathing can also be used as a calming technique when encountering stress, pain, and fear. In Breathing, Michael Sky offers simple breathing exercises that are intended to be experienced as they are read. He discusses breath, the central organizing life force, as it relates to emotional responses, lifetime habits, sleep, childbirth, sexual communion, and higher consciousness.

149 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1990

Reviews

[Claudine · Rating 5 out of 5]

What greater thing is there to learn than how to breathe and know the breath. A wonderful guide to using our breath and understanding it's importance.

[Artemis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy and enjoyable read on breathing. I've read quite a few books on this subject, and this particular title resonated with my ideology and understanding. It's a soft spoken book, chapters flow from one to another very smoothly. I really appreciate Michael Sky writing a chapter on birth and the traumatic experience we westerns put out children through. I loved the fact the author noted midwifery, "witch accusations" and an era where men took what was rightful belonged to women, their knowledge of birth and health.
Each chapter comes with a few quotations by great people and a small breathing exercise.

[Tami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Breathing, it’s involuntary. Much of the time, we aren’t even aware of the process. Yet, our breathing patterns do change. When we are calm and relaxed our breathing is deeper. When we are upset or in pain, we take shallow breathes. Often, without realizing it, we take on these patterns long after the trauma is gone.

Breathing looks to do two things. First and foremost, the reader is encouraged to become aware of his or her breathing through various exercises. As this awareness increases, the reader learns how breathing can be used as a tool for self understanding and ultimately healing trauma such as that occurring during the birthing process.

Breathing is suitable for even the most novice beginner. The author does a good job of explaining how breathing affects the body in general and it various associated aspects in more detail. Of particular interest are the rebirthing and sexual energies sections.

[Rah~ri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute.