Breathing Thoughtfully

About the Book

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.......

About the Author

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.

On voluntary retirement from the CBN, the author founded and is till today the Managing Director of Credit Research and Consultancy Company Nigeria Limited. The target market is the public sector. An important part of work already undertaken includes consulting for the country's House of Representatives and the Senate on "Central Banking Legislation and Practice".

The author is also the chief executive of Move and Company Nigeria Limited, which serves as procurement agents for government and private bodies. H. K. Fujah holds a Master's Degree (1988) in International Banking and Finance of the Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. The author was the winner of the International Bankers' in Scotland Prize for the best student. He holds the Associateship Diploma (1980) as well as the postgraduate level Financial Studies Diploma (1985) of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, London. The author won distinctions of the London Institute including the second best student in the world (participating commonwealth countries) and the best student for the subject "Human Aspects of Management" of the Financial Studies Diploma. He remains till date an associate of the London institute, and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria.