Mindful Breath: Breath management before, below, between and beyond the dive

Nobody owns the breath in the water.The breath bestsellers stop at the waterline. The freediving manuals cover breath-hold only. The scuba books give breathing one chapter. Mindful Breath is the first reference book on breath management for people who breathe underwater - scuba divers on gas and freedivers on one breath - unifying respiratory physiology, dive medicine, the technique canon from the Upaniṣads to the modern schools, and contemplative practice in one graded, illustrated, evidence-rated manual.Thirty-seven protocol cards, each with a verdict - Land, Pre-dive, Surface interval, Below, or Never. The Never List with its physiology. Thirteen graphics. The pre-dive breath, the breath below, the surface interval, and five minutes a day on land. The three plans - Dive Plan, Breath Plan, Mindful Diving Plan - on one page. Five guided practices, including The Tide. And an evidence appendix that grades every claim and names the trials that found breathing no better than placebo.Measured, not assumed.Companion book to the Mindful Breath(TM) specialty of the Mindful Diving Institute, and sister volume to Mindful Diving - The Ocean Was Teaching Us All Along.