Breathing Free - Softcover

Hale, Teresa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340728310 ISBN 13: 9780340728314

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 1999

At the heart of the Buteyko Method lies the recognition that some 200 diseases, including respiratory conditions like asthma, develop because of hyperventilation. By altering your breathing patterns, you can radically improve your health, relieve symptoms and sometimes even eradicate illnesses without the need for drugs. The simple breathing exercises are based on 45 years of practical and empirical research by leading Russian medical scientist Professor Buteyko and are now used with great success around the world/ In fact of the 100,000 drug-dependent patients with asthma who completed this course in Russian, around 92,000 of them do not use medication today. Written by the founder of London's leading alternative clinic, the Hale Clinic, as well as a top practitioner of the Method, this book is set to radically improve the health of all those who embark on its 5-day programme.

Review:

Asthma kills 6,000 people a year. Respiratory illnesses affect millions more. According to Teresa Hale, asthmatics and others with respiratory illnesses are breathing wrong. "We have been led to believe that deep breathing is good for us because it increases our oxygen intake. In fact, the reverse is true. The more we breathe, the less oxygen actually reaches the cells of our bodies," says Hale in Breathing Free: The Revolutionary 5-Day Programme to Heal Asthma, Emphysema, Bronchitis, and Other Respiratory Ailments. Her breathing programme, Breath Connection, teaches you to change your breathing patterns so that you won't need to wheeze, breathe heavily, or take gulps of air after exertion. Hale promises that five days on this programme will reduce your need for medications and regular practice often increases metabolism and leads to weight loss.

Breathing Free gives a self-test to assess your breathing and teaches several techniques to improve it. Hale explains how to adapt the program for mild, moderate, or severe asthma, emphysema, bronchitis, panic attacks, general health and children with asthma. She also suggests dietary guidelines.

Hale's programme is based on the work of Konstantin Buteyko of the former Soviet Union. It is easy to understand, but will take time and effort to master. But Hale says you have a choice: "Stay where you are, with your daydreams and your deteriorating health, or take control and make some effort to effect permanent change." Hale founded Britain's renowned Hale Clinic, whose clients have included Princess Diana, the Duchess of York, Tina Turner, Richard Gere and Arnold Schwarzenegger. --Joan Price

Review:

The queen of therapy (Daily Telegraph)

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0340728310
• ISBN 13: 9780340728314
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224