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Changing Lives...... One Breath At A Time.
The Mindful Breathing Institute teaches mindful living practices, responding to the need for health promotion and mental health education to enhance psychological well-being. We endeavor to promote a healthful mindset so you can cope with emotional and physical challenges. We believe that mindfulness will help you to reduce the stressors in your life and allow you to harness your own ability to respond to emotions and illness in positive ways.
MBStress.MOVMindful breathing is a self regulation strategy that allows us to observe our breathing more closely without responding or reacting to it. It teaches us self compassion so we can be less reactive to our emotions. This gently enhances our feelings of self control, resulting in a powerful feeling of contentment that can improve our physical and emotional health.
Whether you are learning about mindfulness for the first time, or continuing to learn more to refine your practice, you will find that mindful breathing is be a suitable and relaxing meditative practice for regulating attention and emotions, and a psychological intervention for improving mood and enhancing well being.
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Book Review: Mindful Breathing
Book Review: Mindful Breathing
"What is Mindful breathing, how to practice it, and cultivate it. The author delves deep into the scientific aspect of it but explains the concept with utter lucidity. His experience and understanding of the subject reflects itself on each page. The book explores the importance and dimensions of concentration, focus and mindfulness. It helps you train your mind and eliminate white noise and distractions through meditation. And all this through an interactive form of narration. It makes you think deep, makes you take the responsibility and work on it. It is indeed a holy grail for all the people suffering from any kind of stress related issue. I myself suffer from anxiety and bipolar disorder and found this book extremely helpful. I connected with the essence of the book.. It is filled with practical advice. The narrative is interesting and is thus a fast read. The writing is beautiful, gripping, inspirational and most importantly very significant." Abantika
Mindful Living Series
Take control of your wellness and well being!
Learn strategies to improve your physical wellness and your psychological well being. The book explores the mindset of wellness and well being, and how to create a self care practice. Mindset and practice work together to help us focus more clearly on our goals as we move toward improving our physical and mental health. Achieving our wellness goals, whether they be about physical wellness or mental well being, requires a balanced approach.
Mindful Self Care will help you develop a positive growth mindset that will propel you toward meeting the goals you have set and make those goals more attainable. It will help you to stay motivated and engaged in a mind and body practice through daily affirmations, gratitude, self compassion and healthy self appraisals. You will also learn about how rituals, mindfulness, and coping strategies and skills can build self efficacy beliefs. These are the techniques used in positive psychology that will empower you to flourish and to feel engaged and in control of your own psychological well being.
NEW for 2026
A Mindful Life celebrates being fully present and aware in the current moment, observing your thoughts, feelings, and surroundings without judgment. It causes us to respond intentionally rather than reacting automatically, leading to greater calm, focus, and purpose. It requires becoming in tune with our inner experience and making deliberate, value-aligned choices about how we live our lives. It's a way of thinking about life that integrates awareness into daily activities, reducing stress and enhancing our psychological well-being.
This book is a compilation of three short works from the Mindful Living Series. It is intended to be both a self-help resource library for those interested in mindfulness practices and a practitioner's guide to mindful breathing, a motivational text for those seeking to create a self-care practice, and an inspirational manifesto to help guide readers toward a more mindful life. The intention is that through self-help and self-care practices such as mindfulness and mindful breathing, we can cultivate wellness and well-being, creating a mindful life.
Qigong for Engancing Self Awareness
Qigong is the art of cultivating energy for the purpose of supporting a healthy body and mind. In Western societies, its use as a mind-body practice, and in complementary medicine is well documented and increasing in popularity.
In this short book we will explore how Qigong combines Shen, mindfulness (being present), rhythmic breathing, and gentle, flowing movements to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, thus reducing cortisol levels and responses to stress. The learner’s goal is to become more self aware of the body, and to learn how the mind can work with the body to increase and direct our vital energy to act as a healing force within the body.
Available at Amazon KDP Select and Paperback
Trauma-Informed Education Series
Trauma Informed Practices: Teaching Self Regulation through Mindfulness to Children and Adolescents
This book is meant to be a primer for teachers and educational professionals, paraprofessionals and school leaders who work with children every day. It provides an introduction to trauma informed practices that promote self regulation. Teachers and school practitioners can use this book to become more informed about trauma-centered interventions and mindfulness strategies, which can be uregulation. It also explores mindfulness teacher training and building a trauma informed community.
Trauma-Informed Schools and Practices: Creating Resilient and Caring School Communities for Learning
This book is about empowering schools, teachers, and school leaders to become trauma-informed educators and to create trauma-informed organizations. It attempts to develop a deeper understanding of how trauma impacts student behavior, requiring teachers to use behavioral strategies that help students learn to manage emotions and behaviors that affect larning. It creates an understanding that motivates us to build empathy and compassion for our students and families and to create caring school communities for learning. Trauma-informed practices can also be used to teach adaptive behaviors that will support the student’s social, emotional, and academic growth. In communities where trauma and toxic stress are prevalent, teachers who develop trauma awareness are able to employ trauma-informed teaching practices to mitigate the impacts of childhood trauma and create safe spaces for children to process traumatic events.
FREE Mindfulness Courses
This is a self-guided course that will help you increase your understanding of mindfulness. You will learn about three dimensions of mindfulness and a strategy called mindful breathing that you can practice at home. You will also learn about the science of how mindfulness impacts the brain through metacognitive thinking. The course is self-paced with visuals and exercises to help you learn mindful breathing.
Mindful Breathing for Stress Management
This FREE UDEMY short course is intended as a self-help experience for those interested in guiding their breathing.
Whether you are learning about mindfulness for the first time or continuing to deepen your understanding, this our knowledge course expands your understanding of mindfulness as a meditative practice for regulating attention and emotions. If you are struggling with intrusive thoughts or emotions that control your thinking, this is a good place to start your journey to more self-regulated thinking.
Mindful Life Blog
A Mindful Life celebrates being fully present and aware in the current moment, observing your thoughts, feelings, and surroundings without judgment. It causes us to respond intentionally rather than reacting automatically, leading to greater calm, focus, and purpose. It requires becoming in tune with our inner experience and making deliberate, value-aligned choices about how we live our lives. It’s a way of thinking about life that integrates awareness into daily activities, reducing stress and enhancing our psychological well-being.
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Donald D. Matthews, Psy.D. is the founder of the Mindful Breathing Institute and is the author of numerous self care publications. He is a certified cognitive coach, educational therapist and an integrative behavioral health practitioner with a decade of experience teaching workshops and coaching clients using CBT and mindfulness strategies to improve self regulation. Dr. Matthews is a professional affiliate of the International Society of Coaching Psychology.
Donald D. Matthews, Psy.D. is the founder of the Mindful Breathing Institute and is the author of numerous self care publications. He is a certified cognitive coach, educational therapist and an integrative behavioral health practitioner with a decade of experience teaching workshops and coaching clients using CBT and mindfulness strategies to improve self regulation. Dr. Matthews is a professional affiliate of the International Society of Coaching Psychology.
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