Breathwork expert and meditation teacher Matteo Pistono offers a how-to book for upgrading your nervous system to live your optimal life physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Do you want to calm your racing thoughts before lying down for a restful night of sleep? Or raise your energy levels before your morning exercise or spin class, and focus before an important meeting? Are you overwhelmed from the flood of information from your social media and news feed? Any time your emotional state is out of balance, there are time-tested, practical methods to breathe your way back into the state of being you want. You have the capacity to change how you feel, in any moment, with the breath. It's a matter of paying attention and then consciously altering your breathing pattern. Too often books on breathing and breathwork coaches do not teach the actual mechanics of breathing. Instead, they guide sessions, teach protocols, or direct you to an app. The consequence of just following a protocol without understanding the mechanics leaves the student disempowered and dependent on the teacher. Instead, in Breathe How You Want to Feel, learning functional breathing becomes the basis upon which you gain control of your well-being--it's the secret tool behind resiliency. Breathe How You Want to Feel presents a psychophysical tool kit that includes:

• awareness building,
• understanding the dials of your nervous system,
• the importance of nasal breathing,
• how breath holds (even when very short) are a superpower, and
• how to integrate optimal breathing throughout your everyday life, especially when you're sleeping.

You'll use these tools to optimize your breathing to overcome being tired, wired, and uninspired. This book meets you, the breather, where you are with step-by-step actionable tools for better health, sleep, and energy.