A Racing mind, intrusive thoughts, a swirling collage of ideas, memories, and predictions—some haunting. It kept me up at night and hyper during the day. Some called it insomnia; I called it an uncontrollable circus. This had been a problem for me ever since I was young, but it certainly went into overdrive when I…

This article is not about breathing techniques. It is about the many ways breathing can be tooled: a better understanding of this essential element we take for granted. While breathing is our first and foremost survival essential—along with water, food, sleep, etc.—it is one of the most underrated, underused, and for the most part, forgotten…