Piera Manzi
Tecniche di Respirazione

We are not "only" what we eat.

We are also made of the "quality" of the things we take in, as our body and psyche feed on everything.

A person who eats "only" meat is different from a completely vegetarian person. Someone who listens only to Baglioni, Ramazzotti, and Gigi D'Alessio, cannot resemble another who listens to the Liars, Amon Tobin, the Carcass, or the Arab Strap. And so it is in literature, cinema, or the various "arts" in general.

The things we "assimilate" by reading, listening, or watching, influence our psyche and contribute to modifying us and making us grow each in a different way from the other.

The same thing, mutatis mutandis, can be applied to breathing.

Breathing, if we think about it, is the first spontaneous act we do as soon as we come into the world. And from the "type" of breath that we adopt from the start, our entire way of relating to the world and life, in general, is set.

Notice: when we are angry or nervous, for example, our breathing is fast, short, labored, mainly located in the throat and at lung height. Conversely, when we are ecstatic or very relaxed, the breath becomes long, harmonious, and more centered on the belly. Between these two extremes, there are "ways of breathing" that integrate both methods, which we "adopt involuntarily" on different occasions.

This book "Practical Guide to Breathing Techniques" (De Vecchi Editore, but it is now untraceable!) teaches us to "breathe better" to better circulate the Vital Energy and achieve calm and self-control by tackling simple techniques that we would never have imagined: from autogenic training (used by those in labor) to yoga through bioenergetics, t'ai chi ch'uan or Vivation®.

All techniques that I have personally tried (but we're talking about many years ago, alas...).

A book lighter than you might imagine. A practical and convenient guide with easy customizable exercises that would be interesting to "make your own" to treasure and improve ourselves and the quality of our life. And I'm referring to many restless, mentally dissociated debaserians with strong emotional imbalances that I often see hanging around here (...no offense to anyone, eh?).