My friend recommended this book to me, so I decided to read it. While breathing can sound like such an obvious topic as to not need any discussion, Nestor shows readers how there is so much untapped potential in our breath. He starts off the book by detailing the experiment him and a colleague undertake--breathing only thru their mouths for over a week. As can be expected, this results in disastrous health consequences, which are speedily reversed when nose breathing resumes. Nestor emphasizes that as helpful as breathing is for things like anxiety, asthma, snoring, and the like, it is no substitute for Western medicine. Those with medical emergencies should go to a doctor instead of trying to breath their way to harmony. Nevertheless, reader are intrigued by the countless stories of yogis and other spiritualists who perform superhuman abilities with breathing. There are monks who can alter their heartrate, temperature, and metabolism on cue. There are even stories of fantastical people who go days on end without either food or water while in their meditative states. While the average person will likely not get to that level, they can practice the various techniques in this book to gain more health, vitality, and calm.
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