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Mission Organization Certification Workshops About Breathing Professional services Instrumentation Business Opportunity Downloads Links Contact us Are you overbreathing? Which brain is yours?	DEREGULATED BREATHING BEHAVIOR IS LEARNED. Learned overbreathing behavior regulates physiology that may mediate “unexplained symptoms,” misunderstood performance deficits, and acute and chronic “effects of stress,” all of which may be falsely attributed to other causes. In this context, the effects of breathing on health and performance become behavioral consequences, rather than unexplained symptoms and deficits. How many of us know that our behavior regulates our pH? Changes in breathing behavior, as a result of learning, may contribute significantly to the following kinds of symptoms and deficits: NEUROLOGICAL: epilepsy, ADD, ADHD COGNITIVE: attention, learning, thinking, problem solving, memory PSYCHOMOTOR: coordination, reaction time, integration EMOTIONAL: anger, anxiety, low mood, frustration tolerance PERFORMANCE: public speaking, test taking, music recitals PSYCHIATRIC: phobias, panic attack, anxiety syndromes, depression PERSONALITY: self-esteem, confidence, cognitive style, emotional posture DEFENSIVE: denial, self-talk, dissociation, disconnectedness STRESS: fatigue, generalized anxiety, burnout, and physical symptoms CARDIOVASCULAR: angina, arrhythmia, nonspecific pain, ECG abnormalities VASCULAR: hypertension, migraine phenomena, digital artery spasm RESPIRATORY: bronchial constriction/spasm, asthma symptoms and attack GASTRIC: IBS, nausea, cramping, bloatedness, non ulcer dyspepsia PREGNANCY: physical symptoms, psychological change, fetal health MUSCULAR: spasm, hyperreflexia, pain, tetany, weakness, fatigue, stiffness NEUROMUSCULAR: repetitive strain injury (RSI), pain, injury, fibromyalgia BLOOD: red blood cell rigidity (effects of calcium), thrombosis (blood clotting) ENDURANCE: altitude sickness, acute fatigue, chronic fatigue, effort syndrome SLEEP: apnea and other disturbances GOOD BREATHING MEANS GOOD CHEMISTRY. People breathe very differently as a function of what they are doing, thinking, and feeling. Good body chemistry must be regulated despite the breathing acrobatics of talking, emotional encounters, and professional challenges. It needs to be maintained while relaxed or stressed, excited or bored, active or inactive, working or playing, focused or distracted. To insist on slow breathing and relaxation, for example, during these times is not only unrealistic, but may also be counterproductive. Failure to address breathing as a behavior, and how it pertains to body chemistry, means leaving out the most fundamental, practical, and profound factors that account for (1) the far-reaching effects of bad breathing, as well as for (2) the surprising benefits of good breathing. 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. Continue