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Breathing: Expanding Your Power and Energy

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"Rebirthing" is an artform that many aspire to and few attain. Michael's book captures both the spiritual as well as the practical aspects of many facets of the breath and breathing. He is quite poetic as well. A must buy for anyone interested in transformational breathwork and the study of the breath.

I have to say I couldn't even get through the entire book. The only insight the author was able to give were quotes from other authors or doctors. I think the title was entirely misleading. Several chapters were based on his beliefs on the adverse effects of child birth. Breathing had nothing to do with any of it. None of the breathing techniques had any explanation to the benefits of them. Thus leaving the reader trying different forms of breathing with no direction of what to hope to achieve.
Overall, I will not recommend this book to anyone and I am very sad I spent the money on the copy I have.

This book pretends that if you consciously control the way you breathe it will give you all kinds of benefits. It's a bunch of baloney. It's a hippie dippie book from the 80s.

Okay now breathe in through your nose, hold it four seconds, then let it all out through your nose, then do it again. There, now all your problems are gone.

All of your problems are caused by the way you contracted and withheld your healthy deep breaths. When your Uncle Jay sexually abused you, you restricted your breathing in order to avoid experiencing what was happening. Now you must take good deep breaths and release that experience, and you will be whole again.

The part of the book that I responded most positively to was when birth was described. It was from the point of view of the newborn baby, and it said that the baby does have feelings and reactions, and is upset, and shouldn't be handled clinically by people wearing masks, shouldn't have its umbilical cord cut so soon to the point where it becomes a terrifying matter of life and death to force air into its lungs before it is ready, and shouldn't be separated from mommy at this time.