Using the breath

I was happy to switch from a spot on the wall for my meditation attention anchor to my breath.  I have enjoyed Larry Rosenberg’s “Breath by Breath”.  I have gotten good practices from all of Gay Hendricks’ books, such as “Conscious Breathing.”  Hendricks often refers to conscious use of the breath as “breathwork”.  He warns against restricting the capacity of one’s breathing because of social disapproval of a (temporary) protruding, rounded belly.  James Nestor’s “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art” had national success but, to me, the other books I have mentioned here are more valuable.