Best books about breathwork for relieving stress and anxiety
When feeling stressed, anxious or excited, what’s the first thing people advise us to do? Take a deep breath.
Taking a deep breath is a universal tool for calming down, but we tend to only inhale in moments of need. This is a quick fix, but mental health and wellbeing practitioners are now saying we should practice breathwork regularly to reap all the benefits the technique has to offer.
Breathwork is an ancient therapy technique that is finally going mainstream. According to a recent the practice draws from “various traditions such as yoga (alternate nostril breathing) and Tibetan Buddhism (vase breathing) along with psychedelic communities (conscious connected breathing) and scientific/medical researchers and practitioners (coherent/resonant frequency breathing).” Western society slowly hopped on the breathwork bandwagon, which is evidenced by the 1.1 billion #breathwork views on - yet breathwork veterans argue that it's much more than simply a Gen Z-approved trend.
