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THE (UNDERUTILIZED) POWER OF BREATH FOR SUCCESS

When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace.

—ANONYMOUS

Before I had my “aha” moment for a beauty product idea and built it into a multimillion-dollar business (Moisture Jamzz), before I wrote my first small-business guidebook (Your Idea, Inc., Adams Media, 2009), and before I built my entrepreneurial/small-business consulting business, the only thing I was known for, way back in 1989, was “the girl who always left yoga class right before Savasana.” Sanskrit (an ancient language of India) for “corpse pose,” Savasana is the last pose of yoga class where you lie still for several minutes. Being still made me anxious. Savasana seemed like a complete waste of time. I'd stare at the ceiling ...

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