How to Take a Breath

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Breathing well can bring about improvements in a surprising number of areas of your life. This skill is usually taken for granted. Surely you just breathe in ... and then you breathe out...? But experienced physiotherapist and breathing dysfunction specialist Tania Clifton-Smith has been helping people correct their breathing patterns for over 30 years and has seen at first hand what a difference it makes. Introduction The need to breathe Chapter 1 What’s all the fuss about? Chapter 2 Why breathe well? Chapter 3 Self-checking Chapter 4 It’s right under your nose Chapter 5 Listen to your body, listen to your mind Chapter 6 The stress connection Chapter 7 Why does our breathing change? Chapter 8 A recipe for breathing well Chapter 9 Effective breathing on a day-to-day basis Chapter 10 Breathing well for all ages and stages Chapter 11 Sports performance and recovery Chapter 12 Speech — breath and voice production Chapter 13 Cough, hoick and spit Chapter 14 Persistent pain, chronic fatigue syndrome and sleep disorders Chapter 15 Igniting the life force — A Māori perspective by Jolie Davis Exercises and other strategies Resources Glossary Acknowledgements About the author Follow Penguin Random House