Breathe In, Breathe Out: The best-selling practical guide on how to breathe for better sleep, stress management, improved self-esteem, and to care for your mental health

Product Information

Since tragic loss brought him to breathwork, Stuart Sandeman has helped thousands of people transform their lives, simply by changing the way they breathe. These are exercises that promise to help us become better breathers, which, it is claimed by practitioners, can transform our physical and mental health by improving immune function, sleep, digestion and respiratory conditions, and reducing blood pressure and anxiety (or transporting you to a higher realm of consciousness, if that is your thing). Kolegyňa vraví - načo to čítaš, veď vieš dýchať, inak by si zomrel. Čo tam treba študovať...na..ježiši, to má až 330 strán?

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. 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. Sometimes we need a little push towards the direction we deem is correct, so this book is that push you need when you don't know where to start. There are many exercises, quite simple ones but really effective if you want to start your healing journey through something which is so basic! 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. Eens je die goed onder de knie hebt, kan je verder gaan met het tweede deel. Daarin wordt meer verdiept. Hier ga je trainen op het herkennen en begrijpen van emoties, trauma’s (bewust en onbewust) leren loslaten en je hersenen herprogrammeren. Je hersenen zijn immers datgene wat je gedachten, gevoelens, reflexen en ademhaling stuurt.

Druhá časť má názov HLBŠIA PRÁCA a zmeriava sa na prepojenie dýchania a emócií. Všetky emócie - tie pozitívne aj tie negatívne - vedú totiž k reakcii tela. Buď emóciu prejavíme (dýchanie aj emócie plynú, smejeme sa, kričíme, plačeme…) alebo ju potlačíme (čo sa prejavuje zadržiavaním dychu a “uväznením” emócie vnútri). 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. 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?

Breathwork has become fashionable, she thinks, “because it works”. The increased profile of mindfulness, with its focus on breathing, has been another reason, but even while we sit, eyes closed, following the guidance of an app, few of us know how to breathe well, she says.

Customer reviews

In het eerste deel legt hij uit wat de samenhang is tussen gedachten, gevoelens en je ademhaling. Je krijgt informatie over verschillende soorten ademhaling. Hij koppelt zijn theorieën ook steeds aan oefeningen, die je als lezer meteen kan uitproberen. De focus ligt aanvankelijk op oefeningen om rustig te leren ademhalen, waarna hij het verband gaat leggen met de invloed op je lichaam. Zo leer je omgaan met angsten en stress. Zelfs beter (in)slapen en omgaan met fysieke pijn komt aan bod. Táto kniha o dychu len nerozpráva, skôr učí, ako svoje dýchanie pozorovať a zlepšovať. Autor vysvetľuje, že naše dýchanie pomáha ovplyvňovať hladinu energie, našu tvorivosť, vie zmierniť stres aj bolesť, pomáha regulovať emocionálny stav. Môže byť kľúčom k uzdraveniu z traumy - to je dokonca jeho osobný príbeh. 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. Stuart Sandeman verloor zijn vrouw Tiff aan kanker. Hij werkte als DJ, waardoor hij een onregelmatig leven had. Toen hij een workshop rond ademhaling volgde, was hij onmiddellijk gefascineerd door de effecten en ging hij zich hierin verder verdiepen. Mnohí odborníci sa zhodujú, že ak nesprávne dýchate, je takmer nemožné, aby ste sa cítili dobre. Aby ste jasne premýšľali, dobre spali, prekonávali choroby alebo získavali nejaký prospech z cvičenia či iných zdravých praktík.

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. Dokopy je tu 40 cvičení s dychom, a nie je to taká tá kniha na jedno prečítanie, ale niečo ako domáca lekárnička. Bolí ma hlava? Aké bolo to cvičenie, ktoré na to pomáha? Tretia časť OPTIMALIZUJTE je niečo ako PhD z dýchania. Sú tu cvičenia ako “Štvorcové dýchanie”, “Dychová pumpa” či “Dýchaj ako rytier Jedi”. About 80% of the people Hartley sees in her sessions are “upper chest breathers, so that when they breathe in, their intercostal muscles [between the ribs] and their shoulder muscles are overused. Their chests puff out and hardly anyone is breathing really well into their belly, which should be the foundation of the healthy breath.” Others breathe through their mouth rather than nose. “So there’s all these intricacies in the way we breathe and there’s always room for improvement.” 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.

Special offers and product promotions

Tenslotte in deel 3 leer je je focus en ademflow nog verbeteren en ga je je aangeleerde ademhalingstechnieken implementeren in je dagelijkse leven. Zo kan je je stress op het werk reduceren, je kan sportprestaties verbeteren, maar je gaat ook je vooraf gestelde intentie kunnen behalen. Breathe In, Breathe Out is a practical, illuminating guide to living a healthier, happier life through breathing. Good breathing will change your world. All you need to do is breathe in, breathe out. Breathing is a powerful, accessible tool to calm your stress, reduce your pain and manage your emotions. Right beneath our noses, some 20,000 times a day, our heart and lungs work in perfect harmony to bring energy to our bodies and life to our cells, and they have done since the day we were born. But have we really harnessed the potential of our breath? Edinburgh-born Stuart Sandeman – breath coach, Radio 1 presenter and now Sunday Times best-selling author – wagers that most of us would benefit from fine tuning our breathing habits. Indeed, Stuart has found simple breathwork techniques invaluable when coping with his own grief after he tragically lost his girlfriend to cancer.

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.’ Whether you want focus or flow, more energy or less anxiety, Stuart can tell you how to get it. Combining modern science and ancient wisdom, he sets out how to stay on top of your game, overcome a negative mindset and heal from your past. You'll learn to deepen the connection with yourself, others - and the world around you.BAD breathing is like wearing your winter clothes on a hot summer’s day… (and not knowing that your shorts are in your bag).’ Hij schreef dit boek zodat ook anderen met behulp van ademhalingstechnieken kunnen leren om dieper te slapen, beter met stress om te gaan of angsten te overwinnen. Kortom, bewuster en vooral juister ademhalen kan leiden tot een gelukkiger en gezonder leven. 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: Teaching children breathing exercises helps them to improve concentration and reduce stress and anxiety (posed by a model). Photograph: SDI Productions/Getty Images