<p>Searching for Breath\u00a0is a very personal investigation into the essence of our most important bodily function, breathing: how it sustains and lets us thrive \u2013 physically, psychologically and spiritually \u2013 and how we can manage it to make our lives better.<\/p>
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\n<p>Every one of us breathes 25,000 times a day; it is intrinsic to life on earth. However, almost everyone takes it for granted and yet this essential bodily process is something we can control. Modern science and ancient traditions have proven that by regulating our breathing we gain control and direction in our lives. Breathing is a superpower hidden in front of our eyes.<\/p>
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\n<p>Breathwork has become\u00a0the\u00a0hot topic in health and wellness over the past few years; it?s featured in many of the world’s most popular health and wellness channels and in the past few years a string of bestselling books have come out around the phenomenon including The New York Times bestselling\u00a0Breath\u00a0by James Nestor, the Sunday Times bestselling\u00a0Wim Hof Method and Dan Brule’s bestselling\u00a0<i>Just Breathe<\/i>.<\/p>
\n<p>Searching for Breath provides a holistic background to breathing: why do we breathe, how do we breathe, how it connects us to the world around us, how it creates the energy our bodies and minds demand, how it affects emotion, how does breathing \u2013 and therefore our bodies and minds \u2013 adjust to extreme environments.\u00a0Searching for Breath\u00a0gives the reader a complete physiological, psychological, historical and spiritual foundation before introducing the myriad of breath systems in use around the world today.<\/p>
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\n<p><i>Searching for Breath<\/i>\u00a0combines science, history, religion, art and philosophy, and wraps them around events in Lineen’s own life \u2013 from high altitude mountaineering in the Himalayas, to free diving off the coast of Australia, to delivering babies in the midst of the Sierra Leone civil war, to ski racing on the World Cup circuit \u2013 to create an extremely readable and immersive work that informs and initiates the reader into the journey of breath.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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