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Ways to Better Breathing

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This excellent book provides you with the essence of how to gain skill and confidence in better breathing. Since breathing is a part of all that we do, it is a key to mastering life for everybody no matter what their situation is, and the author does an excellent job of conveying this. Thus an olympic level athlete or a person recouperating from a serious injury will find guidance and improvement in learning these experiments.they are extremely effective, yet taught by Carola in a way that is gentle, and adapts to everyone's varied situations. Just as learning the alphabet gives us access to create and also read many words, learning these breathing experiments is a key that will open us up to a much fuller potential in all our life situations. Once these experiments are learned, they can be applied, even with just a few seconds of time to improve our breathing.Carola Speads is a master teacher, who lived for 98 years and taught this work for 83 years of her life. We are fortunate that she shared her brilliant ideas in a do it yourself format so that we can all benefit from her expertise. I recommend this book to all my friends, colleagues and patients, since it is so basic and effective to improving their lives, no matter what challenges they face or aspirations they are reaching for.

I find the thought of doing breathing exercises based on readings from a book a bit daunting. I am the type that would much rather prefer a class or one on one instruction on how to properly do a breathing exercise. But... you don't need that with this book. It's so clearly written that you feel like the author is right there giving you instructions. Granted from time to time I would have to stop what I was doing and read it again but I always looked at the first couple of tries as a practice session and then I would do the full blown exercise once I thought I understood what it was I was to do. It's clear, concise and to the point....

This is the most complete, down to earth guide to working with your breathing. Carola Speads is a profound and generous teacher and both of those qualities come through in "Ways to Better Breathing". Read this book and, more importantly, do this book. It will be a friend to you for life. A true classic.

I work a lot with one of her primary students and am amazed at the insights I have benefitted from. Why she is not a household word is beyond me. I even asked for permisson to copy two exercises from the book into my breathing book. What a jewel this "Ways to Better Breathing" is. What a gift Carola has given. God bless her.

I work a lot with one of her primary students and am amazed at the insights I have benefitted from. Why she is not a household word is beyond me. I even asked for permisson to copy two exercises from the book into my breathing book. What a jewel this "Ways to Better Breathing" is. What a gift Carola has given. God bless her. Michael Grant White

I bought this book to find some ways to help reduce feelings of anxiety and panic but while this book may be helpful for people who do not get anxious much and want to develop better ways of breathing, for someone with anxiety it can actually make things worse. After doing the experiments for about 2 weeks I actually had more intense anxiety attacks and felt more dizziness and lightheadedness, which is part of what i was trying to reduce. She says when you hyperventilate to just do some sort of physical movement, anyone who has really hyperventilated due to anxiety knows that this does not work. Dinah Bradley has written several books on breathing including "Self-Help for Hyperventilation Syndrome: Recognizing and Correcting Your Breathing-Pattern Disorder" which has been quite helpful to me. If you are not dealing with anxiety and/or hyperventilation then this book may be helpful, but if anxiety and hyperventilation is what you're dealing with, then I would not recommend this book.

Relatively few works are likely to concretely impact the quality of our everyday life. According to my opinion, and based on the experiment which I made of the practical tools described in this book, this one is one of them.
Do not mislead you there, this work has nothing to do with the majority of the "doubtful" works devoted to breathing.
In short, this remarkable book is a great classic, you will understand quickly why. I sincerely wish you to discover it soon.

Ways to Better Breathing contains the best breathing experiments I'm aware of. This book helps people to regulate their breathing and achieve a relaxing moment. Speads teaches how to use breathing experiments for various purposes such as in stressful situation, to overcome fear, grief, relax and so on.

It looks like one is having a private class with Speads when it comes to learning breathing experiments.

I would recommend everyone to do all the experiments -- at least once a day -- right after waking up and preferably on an empty stomach. These breathing exercises result in a phenomenon effect on your mind and body. As a result, it will invigorate and refresh your body; even after a sleepless night.

God bless the author for having awarded us with such flawless method -- she has died at the age of 98.

I bought this book because I felt that there is much more I can do with my breathing! A while ago I tried Breathwalk: Breathing Your Way to a Revitalized Body, Mind and Spirit but although the concept is fascinating I found it hard to follow. I still do some breathing while I walk but I think that the book should be reformulated so that you can have a full walk with all it entails in an easy to find way! So I went looking for a different type of book and tried 50 Natural Ways to Better Breathing, quite interesting, gives you a lot of idea of what you can do with your breathing, techniques, therapies, exercises and much more in short paragraphs. Nice, still did not provide a straight forward way for me to improve my breathing.

This was the third book which seemed interesting. I have to say that I have only tried a few experiments, after reading the whole book. Lots of information and I am sure that some of the experiments will do me a lot of good but the downside is that one has no teacher to whom one can ask one's questions so if you have doubts you keep your doubts. Usually I ask my husband to read the experiment as well but already a few times we don't really understand what the requirements are. I will try to find the experiments which I fully understand and keep it at that. Too bad because I am sure that this is a very useful, straightforward book which will lead to better breathing (if only I could do the experiments with a teacher once...)!