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This is Live Happy Science Editor Paula Phelps, and today on

episode 172 of Live Happy Now, we're talking with New York Times bestselling author Nick Ortner

about his latest book, My Magic Breath, Finding Calm Through Mindful Breathing. This book is designed to

teach mindfulness skills to children, and web editor Chris Libby sat down with Nick to learn more.

This new book, My Magic Breath, Finding Calm Through Mindful Breathing, is aimed at children.

What was the inspiration to write this book about this topic, specifically targeting younger children?

Great question. So, you know, three years ago, just right about now, a month ago my daughter June

was born.

So it's my first child.

And, you know, even when she was a newborn, we'd be reading her books and just getting into

that whole world of children's books.

And there's some wonderful stuff out there.

But I definitely saw some gaps in terms of books that can help

kids become the best that they can be.

So my thinking was, I was reading books.

One of the inspirations for this particular book was Press Here, which is, if you're not

familiar with it, it's a book where the kids are actually interacting with a book.

It's really cute. You know, they press a red dot and it moves to the next page. So the book was an

interactive adventure. And I love that book and that thinking. And I thought, well, what if we could

do that with mindfulness, with breathing, like actually bring it to life so as opposed to a book

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