About Breathing
	An Overview What is overbreathing? What are its effects? Overbreathing & performance Overbreathing & health Why do we overbreathe? What can you do about overbreathing?
Mission Organization Certification Workshops About Breathing Professional services Instrumentation Business Opportunity Downloads Links Contact us Are you overbreathing? Which brain is yours?	WHY DO WE OVERBREATHE? Did you ever wonder how “stress” affects you the way that it does? The nature of “stress” has to do with the way in which you meet a challenge. “Embracing a challenge,” has one set of effects, and “defending oneself from a challenge” has yet another set of effects. Embracement means “being present,” connecting, and learning, and defending means armoring, isolating, and disconnecting. Breathing patterns that incorporate overbreathing, create physiological crisis and a mindful defensiveness that unleashes a cascade of behaviors that “protect you” from “threat” including people, things, and yourself. Overbreathing, like any other behavior, can be learned triggered based on personal history around events such as public speaking, meeting new people, emotional encounters, challenges at work, couples conflict, test taking, classroom learning, operating equipment (cars, computers), and financial challenge. Overbreathing is often a defensive behavior that can mediate every known stress symptom, and can do so immediately and profoundly.