Slow, less and nasally

The gist of James Nestor’s new book Breath is that we breathe too much, too fast and that mouth breathing wrecks the body. He also takes a deep dive on posture. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has been warned that he’ll die a premature death if he doesn’t figure out how to carry his head.

Breath-less

Have as your goal five breaths per minute. Realize your goal right now.

Babel

One of the most dangerous things we can do is give ourselves advice. Advice is the sound of ego erecting a shrine to itself. The more pacific path is to relax into what is. Where we’re baptized. Where we learn to breathe under water.

The primacy of breath

Diaphragmatic breathing changes everything, inside and out. Thoracic breathing is good enough, but no man finds his inspiration in mere adequacy.

The incidentals of birth and death

When consciousness decides to leave the body, to drop the whole mind/body apparatus, it does so spontaneously. No meetings are convened, permissions sought or variables examined. A breath goes out and doesn’t return.