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    The Art of Breathing: How to Become at Peace with Yourself and the World
    The Art of Breathing: How to Become at Peace with Yourself and the World
    The Art of Breathing: How to Become at Peace with Yourself and the World
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    The Art of Breathing: How to Become at Peace with Yourself and the World

    By Danny Penman, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Mark Williams

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    "We can intentionally befriend the breath to great advantage. And that is what Danny Penman's beautifully tactile and invitingly pleasing and uplifting gift to us is all about." —Jon Kabat-Zinn

    You breathe 22,000 times every day. How many of those breaths are you really aware of?

    For thousands of years, people have used the art of breathing for equally profound effects on the mind and body. In The Art of Breathing, international bestselling and award-winning author Dr. Danny Penman provides a concise guide to letting go and finding peace in a messy world, simply by taking the time to breathe.

    Dissolve anxiety, stress, and unhappiness, enhance your mind, and unleash your creativity with the simple exercises included. With each little moment of mindfulness, you’ll discover a happier, calmer you.

    Mindfulness really is as easy as breathing. Some known side effects: You will smile more. You will worry less. Life won’t bother you so much.

    This new edition includes a new afterword by Mark Williams, author of Mindfulness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHampton Roads Publishing
    Release dateMay 1, 2022
    ISBN9781612834801
    The Art of Breathing: How to Become at Peace with Yourself and the World
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    Danny Penman

    DR. DANNY PENMAN is an award-winning journalist and author. He has worked for the BBC and The Independent and is a feature and comment writer for the London Daily Mail. He holds a PhD in biochemistry and a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism. He is coauthor of the bestselling Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan to Finding Peace in a Frantic World.

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      The Art of Breathing - Danny Penman

      Copyright © 2022, 2018 by Danny Penman, PhD

      Foreword copyright © 2022, 2018 by Jon Kabat-Zinn

      Afterword copyright © 2022 by Mark Williams

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages. Previously published in 2018 by Conari Press, ISBN: 978-1-57324-735-1. First published in Great Britain by HQ, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 2016

      Cover design by Kathryn Sky-Peck

      Book design by Steve Wells

      Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.

      Charlottesville, VA 22906

      Distributed by Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

      www.redwheelweiser.com

      ISBN: 978-1-64297-042-5

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2017958237

      Printed in Canada

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      Dedicated to my wife Bella

      and our two boisterous kids

      Sasha and Luka.

      CONTENTS

      FOREWORD

      IN THE BEGINNING

      BREATHING

      MINDFULNESS

      HAPPINESS

      CURIOSITY

      PLAYFULNESS

      AWARENESS

      INSIGHTFULNESS

      AFTERWORD

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Download meditations from www.franticworld.com/breathing

      FOREWORD

      Among all the dimensions of life we take for granted or ignore, and there are many, breathing is among the closest to us and the most fundamental. We are always only one breath away from not being able to keep the mystery of this universe comprising trillions of human cells* that we somehow think of as me alive. The entire constellation miraculously and unceasingly takes care of itself through breathing, over seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, and decades. What a gift. What an opportunity—if only we could wake up to it. And that is what mindfulness, or what we might call openhearted wakefulness is all about . . . pure awareness, boundless, centerless, and already yours. Perhaps our awareness is the most unique characteristic of our humanity—the final common pathway of what makes us who we are and might be, both as a species and as individuals.

      When we think of the breath at all, we routinely think of it as my breath. We say things like I am breathing, but frankly, if it were up to us to keep the breathing going, we would have died a

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