Conscious Breathing Quotes

“For every in-breath there is an out-breath, and as these two currents meet in the nose, a fine microclimate is set up.”
― Gay Hendricks, Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal Mastery

“One is in the cultural taboo against rounded bellies. Fashion dictates that both men and women must have flat bellies. The gaunt fashion-model look still has power over certain segments of the population, as does the ramrod-straight military-inspired look for men.”
― Gay Hendricks, Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal Mastery

“The unpleasant qualities of emotions come from not letting them through, from holding on to them by not participating with them. By directly participating with feelings, largely through breathing with them, you can rid yourself of much unnecessary negativity.”
― Gay Hendricks, Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal Mastery

“Once you get the message from a feeling (say, “I’m scared”), you may want to make it disappear. Breathing is the fastest and most effective way to do this. Take a few big breaths into the physical sensations of any emotion, and watch what happens. Many times, that’s all it takes to move it out of your body. I have witnessed this done a thousand times now, but it still moves me to see the look on people’s faces when they learn that they are the master of their feelings.”
― Gay Hendricks, Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal Mastery

“According to one medical researcher, poor breathing plays a role in more than 75 percent of the ills people bring to their doctors. In most cases, poor diaphragmatic breathing is the culprit. On”
― Gay Hendricks, Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal Mastery

“This is why if you corrected only this one problem and did nothing else, you would make major improvements in your mental, emotional, and physical functioning. We will use correct diaphragmatic breathing as the jumping-off place for all the activities that follow. If”
― Gay Hendricks, Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal Mastery

“At any rate, the woman found her way to a longtime colleague of mine, Dr. Loic Jassy, and engaged in several sessions of breathwork activities. Within a month the disease disappeared and has not returned. It is a comment on modern medicine that no one in the research project expressed any interest in how she had healed herself.”
― Gay Hendricks, Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal Mastery

“She reasoned that since the disease affected her lungs, learning to breathe properly might help. She asked the research team at Stanford to teach her, but no one could tell her what healthy breathing was!”
― Gay Hendricks, Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal Mastery

“The major problems with feelings is that we tend to ignore them, hide them, or let them linger longer than they need to. Conscious breathing can become a most useful ally in learning to handle emotions. There”
― Gay Hendricks, Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal Mastery

“Frequently the whole book would boil down to a single breathing practice, with an entire philosophy wrapped around it. Sometimes, maddeningly, a book would spend two hundred pages promoting the spiritual value of a particular style of breathing, only to say at the end that it could not be taught in a book.”
― Gay Hendricks, Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal Mastery