Heidi Thompson is the author of Calm, Focus, Joy: The Power of Breath Awareness. This is another type of approach to focus-training and mind-calming exercises. Adults and children who practice breath awareness regularly develop strong attention skills, awaken self-knowledge, enhance brain functions, and feel more peaceful and happy. Breath awareness is unlike other breathing techniques that we may be familiar with such as deep breathing, belly breathing, or yoga breath exercises. In fact, breath awareness is not even a breathing exercise. Rather, it is a way to develop awareness using natural breath as its object of focus. Heidi Thompson will explain the difference between familiar breathing exercises and breath awareness so that you can learn how to use breath awareness to enhance your health, focus, and happiness. (If you miss this interview, it will be rebroadcast at 3:00 p.m. EST on Sat., June 16th, www.W4WN.com.)
