I give thanks to the ocean.
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Damien Rider (2020)
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Rider, Damien
One Breath Meditation
ISBN 9781645757627 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781645757610 (Hardback)
ISBN 9781645757634 (ePub e-book)
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First Published (2020)
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Testimonials
I reached out to Damien to find if this program would help me address the personal challenges that Id been facing for some time. Practicality and connection with real life is what sets this course apart. You are not bound to a studio or equipment and once you learn the tools, they can be implemented in any situation. Each session logically progressed from the previous session, stretching us further in our breathing and attention, where we slowly built a layering of understanding about our breathing and its connection to our attention. There was nothing mystical or spiritual about the course, it contained simple logical and practiced knowledge and was structured in a way that built up enough to eventually apply it under a real-life, stressful situation. I found the program both intuitive and simple, yet so very powerful. Im now calmer, less reactive, and starting each day connecting with my breath, allowing a calmer approach to my day. In a complex and busy world, One Breath Meditation, is a refreshingly simple approach to tap into the basics of our breathing and attention and showing us that we have power and control within us.
Adam Stone
Photographer, Digital Marketing & Small Business Solutions
I found out about the meditation sessions via our local Facebook community page. I had minimal experience with meditation prior to attending Damiens workshop, and was pretty unsure about what to expect. Any trepidation was quickly dispelled upon meeting Damien and the rest of the group. I found it easy to settle into a relaxed but alert state with Damiens guidance and looked forward to the sessions each morning. There was no jargon or difficult techniques, and I found I was able to smoothly integrate Damiens method into my everyday life. In less than a week, my wife shared that she had noticed a change in my reactivity to lifes everyday stressors. Moving forward, Ive continued to use Damiens techniques, and also found them particularly beneficial during times of physical stress and exertion. Id highly recommend Damien to any total beginner whos curious about learning to quiet down and focus their mind.
Matt Horton
Orthopedic Clinical Specialist in Arthroplasty Surgery
I attended Damiens One Breath Meditation program just as my life was heading into turmoil, my hope being that it would help me through this difficult time. Having done much meditation previously, I found Damiens teaching to be unique and easily applied instantly to any situation as it occurred. Using the ocean as the perfect tool, Damien taught me how to focus, calm my mind, breathe, and relax through stressful, confronting, and uncomfortable emotional, physical, and mental situations. This program has given me much confidence and provided me with immediate strategies to help with stressful situations. I now personally implement these strategies daily and use parts of these strategies with my own work. Damien is a genuine, caring, kind-hearted, empathetic, and inspiring man, whose passion in helping others who are all on a journey of growth, healing and set discovery. I highly recommend the One Breath Meditation course to anyone.
Nicola Brewer
I recently joined the One Breath Meditation program, after finding myself really run down and stressed out. As air crew in the aviation industry, I work odd shift hours away from home which often change at short notice.
It can make it hard to plan basic things and develop any kind of routine in my life. The One Breath Meditation program showed me how to find some peace in the storm. I cant always be sure Ill have the time, space, equipment, or environment to do a 45-minute mediation class in absolute uninterrupted silence. With this, I can use ten minutes in the car or while I walk to find my breath, calm myself, and find the focus that I need to not just survive, but actually enjoy the right here and now.
Lesley Overland
Forward
I first met Damien in 2015, shortly after completing his 17-day world record, unassisted 800km paddle from the Gold Coast to Sydneys Bondi Beach. Damien has a dream to make us aware of the endemic child abuse that pervades our society and used his personal journey to draw attention to this issue which shames our society. PACA and Damiens movie, Heart of the Sea, has continued to draw attention to the issue of the epidemic of child abuse that is endemic to our society. I was privileged to be able to play my small part in Heart of the Sea and be a director for the Rider Foundation.
I now know Damien to be a man of inexhaustible passion and integrity; he has the insight and compassion far beyond that of most people.
Damiens survival from a childhood of traumatic, systematic, and ongoing child abuse is nothing short of miraculous. His history is amongst the worst cases that I have come across in almost 40 years of practice as a psychologist, to listen to even brief descriptions of what he endured, leaves a listener severely traumatized. From this pain and trauma, Damien has created and shares a healing journey which demands to be shared with others. Part of this journey has led to this book, which will benefit all who take the time to read it.
A major deficiency in our education has been the lack of teaching essential life skills for our psychological, emotional, and mental health.
Damiens One Breath Meditation gives and instructs us all in an essential life skill which should be taught as part of our educational curriculum. One Breath Meditation is a part of Damiens toolkit of life skills that have enabled him to get through anything to use his own words.