The book sensitizes readers to the need to breathe with consciousness. Breathing thoughtfully is the simple and self-evident technique of thinking thoughtfully and emotionalizing thoughtfully. Breathing thoughtfully is the way to the greatest brains and brawn, through simplifying the technique of calm relaxation and concentration. The book uses practical examples from the world of sports, reading, writing, climbing, prayer, meditation, and more generally everything that a person has to do by way of exertion of physical or mental power.......The author turned 50 on May 2nd 2003. After putting in 22 years of service, he retired from the Central Bank of Nigeria (the federal reserve bank) in 1993 as Senior Manager, Foreign Operations Department. Responsibility embraced policy advice and operations on management of the country's foreign reserves and external debt. For the last 10 out of the 22 years put into Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the author lectured International Banking and Foreign Operations, as well as External Debt Management at the Central Bank of Nigeria Training Center, Lagos. The author had also been a lecturer and examiner of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria.