Sorry I have no books to recommend. and the if you do a search on meditative breathing and breath work. you will find information.
Here is some that I found.
"1. Assume a comfortable sitting posture.
2. Close your eyes, keep your spine straight, and let your shoulders drop a bit.
3. Bring your attention to your belly, noticing it rise or expand gently with each inbreath and fall or recede with each outbreath. The rise and fall of your abdomen as you breathe will be the sole focus of this meditation.
4. Keep the focus on your breathing - the rise and fall of the belly - �being with� each inbreath for its full duration and with each outbreath for its full duration, as if riding the waves of your own breathing.
5. Every time you notice your attention has wandered, notice where your attention has gone, then gently bring it back to the rise and fall of the belly as you breathe.
6. If your mind wanders away a hundred times, then your �job� is simply to bring it back, nonjudgmentally, a hundred times. By nonjudgmentally I mean you do not judge the fact that your mind has wandered - because that's what minds do! You simply bring your attention back to the rise and fall of your belly without judgment.
7. That's it! That's Meditative Breathing. Practice it for 15 minutes, once or twice a day, and see the benefits accrue over time. You can not do Meditative Breathing wrong if you do it. Thoughts of "I am doing this wrong" or "This is not working" are simply more distracting thoughts to let go of as you meditate."
Good luck.
Finding my breath for me was a "miracle" from all of the smoke and abuse that I had put my lungs through. Breath work can be very healing and can be a positive and reenforcing addition to the coping mechanisms in the act of quitting smoking. It also helps to be able to breath completely and deeply while swimming which is an activity that I picked up around the time I quit.
Ciao
Phillip
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 80
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,613
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $600
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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