Conscious breathing practices for health, healing, and connecting with the sacred

• Provides 57 conscious breathing and visualization practices

• Shows how awareness of the breath can relieve stress and anxiety, improve sleep and digestion, increase creativity and mental focus, promote emotional calm, boost energy levels, clear negative energy, and provide support for physical healing

• Explains how to use breathwork to commune with the elements and the sacred as well as how to train your voice for more effective chanting and prayer

All effective healing begins with the breath, for our breath carries life force into our bodies. By becoming aware of our breathing, we can refine our receptivity to subtle energies for both self-healing and healing others and recognize our connection to all other living, breathing beings on Earth.

Providing 57 conscious breathing and visualization practices, Jack Angelo shows how breathwork can relieve stress and anxiety, improve sleep and digestion, increase creativity and mental focus, promote emotional calm, boost energy levels, enhance meditation, clear negative energy, and provide support for physical healing. He explains how to use breathwork to commune with the elements and the sacred as well as how to train your voice for more effective chanting and prayer. He shows how, through conscious breathing, we can harness the healing life force available in each breath for energetic balance, heightened consciousness, and overall wellness as well as a deeper connection to the sacred source of all life.

Jack Angelo is a well-known healer and teacher of subtle energy medicine and natural spirituality who has worked with individuals and groups for more than 25 years. He lectures and gives workshops on breathwork and healing internationally and is the author of several books, including Hands-on Healing. He lives in Wales.

List of Exercises

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1    What We Once Knew: A History of the Breath

2    Breathing: Back to Basics

3    Breathing and Subtle Energies

4    Breathing and Polarity

5    Breathing to Counter Stress

6    Breathing and Meditation

7    The Healing Breath

8    Your Breathing Day

9    The Breathing Voice: Vocalizing the Sacred

10    Your Breathing Environment and the Sacred

Glossary

Further Reading

Web Resources

Index