CLIENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Good breathing requires neither
relaxation nor a specific mechanical prescription, save one:
The varied melodies of breathing mechanics must ultimately play
the music of balanced chemistry.
Make
breathing intuitive, not prescriptive.
Learn
breathing as behavior, not simply as a healthy exercise.
Learn to breathe based on you, not the tasks, people, and
challenges around you.
Identify your
breathing patterns. Is your breathing
diaphragmatic?
Discover your
leaning history. How did you learn to
breathe the way you do?
Evaluate your
experience of breathing? Is it easy, or
is it a struggle?
Observe how
breathing affects you. Does it result in
physical symptoms or performance issues?
Learn about your
misconceptions of breathing, and misinterpretations of your own breathing.
Appreciate how
learning and motivation play an important role in your breathing.
Develop awareness
of how you change your breathing behavior when you encounter people, places,
and tasks.
Reinterpret your
experiences of breathing, and its effects on you, in constructive ways.
Talk, think, and
feel differently about your breathing, and what it means.
Learn
to convert distress (negative stress) to eustress (positive excitement) through
breathing.
Develop familiarity
with productive and unproductive breathing mechanics (misuse of accessory
muscles).
Learn
relationship dynamics of breathing mechanics that serve good body chemistry
(acid-base regulation).
Learn
to allow for passive exhale, transition time between breaths, and quiet inhale.
Learn to be
conscious of brainstem breathing reflexes during transition times between
breaths.
Reconnect
breathing mechanics with brainstem reflexes through awareness learning.
Learn to trust and
to be confident in your breathing physiology.
Learn
how overbreathing may be deregulating your body chemistry (acid-base balance).
Identify the
physical and psychological effects of hypocapnia (carbon dioxide deficit) on
you.
Learn how
hypocapnia may be triggering and causing unexplained symptoms and deficits.
Discover your
learned responses to the effects of hypocapnia, and what to do about them.
Learn about how
breathing may be a defensive strategy for avoiding the world and yourself.
Learn specific
interventions for changing your breathing behavior during times of crisis.
Make good
breathing mechanics an automatic (unconscious) response to the effects of
hypocapnia.
Breathe based on
internal experience (e.g., clarity of thinking) rather than outside appearances
(fast or slow).
Learn to breathe
well under diverse circumstances, including challenges of all kinds.
Learn good
breathing for enhancing performance and creativity, during work and play.
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