# Quote — James Nestor, Breath

> The next day I felt even better. ...[T]here was a feeling of calm and quiet that I hadn't experienced in a long time. ...The tension was gone from my shoulders and neck. This lasted a few days...

- Author: [James Nestor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-nestor.md)
- Book: [Breath](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-nestor/breath.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Nestor_(writer)#Breath:_The_New_Science_of_a_Lost_Art_(2020)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-nestor/breath/the-next-day

## More from this book

> "There are as many ways to breath as there are foods to eat," said one... instructor... Another diver told me that some methods of breathing will nourish our brains... others hasten our death.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-nestor/breath/there-are-as-many.md)

> I looked for... verification... recent research in ... but found next to nothing... breathing technique wasn't important. ...Pulmonologists work mainly on ...maladies of the lungs ...collapse, cancer, emphysema.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-nestor/breath/i-looked-for.md)

> [S]omething happened. ...[I]t was as if I'd been taken from one place and deposited somewhere else. It happened in an instant. ...I had somehow sweated through my clothes as if I'd just run a marathon.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-nestor/breath/s-omething-happened-i-t.md)