Breathing

Releasing Your Expectations

Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living


Eva M. Selhub, M.D.

Your expectations are clues that can guide you to healing your deeper needs so that you can feel more balanced as a whole.

How To Cure The Hiccups!

Erica Heinz | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living


Erica Heinz

So, to stop the hiccups you have to get the muscle to relax. You can cure them in one deep breath. Here's how...

How To Deal With The Drama For A Happier, Healthier You

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living


Barbara Ficarra

Wouldn't it be cool if we could just choose when we want a little drama in our lives? A little drama is a good thing, but too much can wreak havoc on our health.

A Breathing Technique Offers Help For People With Asthma

nytimes.com | JANE E. BRODY | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living


Hyperventilation -- breathing too fast and too deeply -- could be the underlying cause of asthma, making it worse by lowering the level of carbon diox...

Mr. President: I Challenge You To Quit!

Sadie Nardini | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living


Sadie Nardini

Mr. President, I'm sure your stress levels are unbelievable. Yet, if you want to help create change we can believe in, then you must stop bumming cigarettes. I know you've done it, and may do it again.

Yoga: It's Cool Like Tara Stiles and It's Great for Your Health

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living


Barbara Ficarra

You can probably tell from my posts that I keep things very impersonal and professional. I don't tell you much about who I am. I really need to loosen up!

Yoga: Bye Bye Anxiety! (VIDEO)

Tara Stiles | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living


Tara Stiles

Use what you need. Rest what you don't. That's efficiency. Think of how well we can function when we are aren't holding tension where it isn't needed.

Is Breathing Deeply Really Good For Your Health?

Dr. Andrew Lange | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living


Dr. Andrew Lange

The truth is we always have a reserve of air in our lungs. There is always enough oxygen available to us at any time. The real secret of breathing is the availability of carbon dioxide in our blood.

Enlightened Sex: Women's Tantric Breathing And Orgasm

Suzie Heumann | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living


Suzie Heumann

Breathing doesn't seem very sexy but it's the key to orgasmic pleasure and self-empowerment for women and to lasting longer for men. Oxygen is what delivers the 'O' in Orgasm.

Unplug and Recharge: 5 Steps to Overcoming Anxiety

Sara Avant Stover | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living


Sara Avant Stover

Often those new to meditation feel intimidated by it. They think: how can I ever stop my thoughts? All this is doing is showing me just how crazy I really am!

Your Breath: The Ultimate Master Cleanse

Tara Stiles | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living


Tara Stiles

Before we reach for the master cleanse there may be a more sustainable option. If we've forgotten the functionality of our breath let's bring our attention back to it.

Art of Attention: Practice Yoga? Teach Yoga? Think About Yoga? Read This.

Elena Brower | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living


Elena Brower

Form and Function within yoga. Together, they are a complete practice. One without the other is a downright limiting of our potential -- and an incomplete class experience.

Take a Cigarette Breath

Erica Heinz | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living


Erica Heinz

Let's not neglect the little health routine that you've learned from smoking. The pattern is a long, slow inhale through pursed lips, and a long, deep exhale with a relaxed open mouth.

Orgasms For Men: Belly Breathing And Tantric Sex (VIDEO)

Suzie Heumann | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living


Suzie Heumann

The Tantrics and Taoists, in particular, have developed simple, relatively easy and obviously fun techniques to help men train themselves to last longer and experience multiple orgasms.

A Little Yin to Your Yang: Yin Yoga Brings Deep Stress Relief

Janet Kinosian | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living


Janet Kinosian

Yin yoga is not a new form, but rather a return to more meditative, traditional yoga. The emphasis is not on a lack of pain, but rather on how to feel discomfort, stay with it and move through it.

Art of Attention: Apology as Your Art, and The Way to Your Heart

Elena Brower | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living


Elena Brower

The take-home here a concept I've been studying for almost ten years. We have three centers in our bodies. When the activity of these three centers is balanced, we are living in our hearts.

Swimming Pools Fueling Allergies?

msn.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living


Swimming in a chlorinated pool may boost the odds that a child susceptible to asthma and allergies will develop these problems, a study indicates....

How to Breathe Better at a Mile High

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.14.2009 | Denver


Ed and Deb Shapiro

Learning how to belly breathe will instantly help you to release stress and relax your whole body, as well as get more oxygen flowing.

6 Keys To Overcome Self-Doubt

Anne Naylor | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living


Anne Naylor

This is my 40th consecutive week of posting articles on HuffPost. The process has been a great gift and a blessing to me. Writing each post has give...

Unplug and Recharge: How to Stay Cool with Yogic Breathing

Sara Avant Stover | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living


Sara Avant Stover

Sitali cools down the body when it's feeling overheated, as well as the mind and heart, when fiery emotions like anger and jealousy arise.

Art of Attention: Can Toxic Encounters Be Nourishing?

Elena Brower | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living


Elena Brower

When we hold resentment and hostility, our heart rhythm shifts the actual shape of the heart muscle. The most efficient thing you can do is simply breathe.

Art of Attention: Five Keys to Emotional Consistency

Elena Brower | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living


Elena Brower

This is not about purification, nor is it about denial. This is about using your attention, your only real tool, to cultivate your most essential capacity for inner consistency.

Art of Attention: Your Invitation

Elena Brower | Posted 09.03.2009 | Home


Elena Brower

The Art of Attention offers authenticity, humor, references to the darkness and the consequent opportunities for observation, transformation and editing; refinement.

Six Steps To Living In The Present

Psychology Today | Posted 08.03.2009 | Living


A friend was walking in the desert when he found the telephone to God. The setting was Burning Man, an electronic arts and music festival for which 50...

Yoga for Sleep

Janet Kinosian | Posted 07.28.2009 | Living


Janet Kinosian

Many Yoga poses - along with its slow, deep and rhythmic breathing - are just the ticket in helping your body to significantly relax.