The book starts with a personal experience shared by the author and how that led him to the path of healing himself and healing others. It's definitely trauma that makes a person who he is, that's for sure. In Breathe In, Breathe Out , Stuart takes you on a journey to discover a hidden power within you that can change the way you think and feel. His accessible exercises, grounded in research and developed over years of practice, will help you to: Strange isn't it? Because all we ever do and all we've ever been doing since we were born is breathe! So how can something so easy as breathing help us in surviving and managing our trauma response, in short, change our lives? Breathing is a powerful, accessible tool to calm your stress, reduce your pain and manage your emotions. Váš nos filtruje, čistí a sterilizuje vzduch s cieľom ochrániť vás pred tým. Kým povolí vzduchu vstúpiť do klubu, dá ho do poriadku. Má na to viaceré metódy.

It’s wonderful to empower people with breathing tools that can improve and transform lives,’ says Stuart. ‘After I lost my girlfriend to cancer, I was on the brink of despair until I discovered that just by tweaking something we all do all day, every day you can rewire your brain and change the way you think and feel. I want to help as many people as I can to learn these simple yet profound techniques – they’re so easy to incorporate into your daily routine and will bring so many benefits in terms of your health and happiness.’ Po prečítaní DYCHU od Jamesa Nestora som si hovorila, že ďalšiu knihu o dýchaní asi čítať nepotrebujem. Potom som si ale prečítala tento úvod a chcela som sa dozvedieť viac. In Breathe In, Breathe Out, Stuart takes you on a journey to discover a hidden power within you that can change the way you think and feel. His accessible exercises, grounded in research and developed over years of practice, will help you to: In deze nonfictie Adem in adem uit gaat Stuart Sandeman meteen concreet aan de slag door je reeds bij de inleiding een intentie te laten bedenken, een doel dat je vooropstelt om je leven te veranderen. These might seem like trivial questions, but your breathing can explain how much stress you're under. It can reveal your emotional state. It can even hold the key to healing trauma. And that's just your breathing over the last 20 seconds.Watch a toddler breathe, she says, and they do it instinctively – their tummies swelling with each in-breath. Hartley believes it is when children begin school that bad habits start setting in that last a lifetime – they sit for long periods, move less, and start to experience emotional stressors that affect breathing (we are designed to take shallow breaths while under threat; it is just that now we feel as if we are under threat all the time). “We go into this fight-or-flight mode and the muscles contract. We start holding our breath a lot more than we should do. It can be anything from feeling nervous in a classroom or something can be happening at home, and you start doing these micro-breath-holds, which morph into an adult dysfunctional breath pattern. It happens without us realising it.” She has created a programme for schools, School Breathe, which launches next week, after being piloted in three schools in east London, teaching children breathing exercises to improve concentration and reduce stress and anxiety.

Väčšina z nás dýcha ústami, čo nie je celkom správne – ako sa zjednodušene hovorí: ústa sú na jedenie, nos je na dýchanie. No pritom dýchame najmä ústami a to nám môže spôsobovať mnohé zdravotné ťažkosti alebo vedľajšie účinky. More than being a life force, breathing is proof that we're alive, and something which is proof enough of our existence has the power to heal. How? Let's leave that for contemplation alone that this book subjects us to. As someone living with PTSD, this book became a bit too personal, not to mention that this one is the first non-fiction self-help book that I've read in years! This book turned out to be exactly what every person living with trauma needs, because it opens a whole other dimension of healing through breathing. The anxiety gang would agree that breathing exercises during overwhelming situations are quite helpful. More than the breathwork and the calmness that it brings of the danger passing, it helps us to dive a bit deeper into our being, the being that wants to heal, the being that wants to find out the reason, the being that wants to find the purpose of it all.

Heel belangrijk om te vermelden, vind ik de vlotte leesbaarheid van dit boek. Stuart Sandeman legt alles uit in begrijpbare taal, duidelijk en concreet. Tekeningen vullen de uitleg aan waar nodig. Er is een aangename afwisseling tussen theoretische inzichten, voorbeeldcasussen, eigen ervaringen en de eigenlijke oefeningen. Deze laatste vormen de kern van het boek, want het zijn de oefeningen waarmee je zelf aan de slag kan gaan en dus meer controle krijgen op je eigen ademhaling en daardoor op lichamelijke processen, zoals emoties en gedachten.