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?	WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT OVERBREATHING? Breathing is a behavior that serves multiple objectives, such as talking, yoga, relaxation, meditation, consciousness exploration, and respiration. The fundamental objective, however, remains central: “respiration,” i.e., meeting the oxygen requirements of every cell, everywhere. Other breathing objectives, such as relaxation, must be ultimately subordinated to good respiration, and not the reverse. Optimal respiration means regulating chemistry, through proper ventilation of CO2, relaxed or not, such as during the acrobatics of talking, emotional encounters, and professional challenges. Chemistry needs to be optimal no matter what you might be doing or what you might be feeling. Everyone, of course, agrees that good respiration is fundamental to healthy physiology and psychology. BUT, on the other hand, and unfortunately so, only a very few people who do “breathing” training know much about respiration and how its chemistry regulates fundamental physiology critical to good health and optimal performance. Thus, for example, deep breathing, although offered up as a component of relaxation training, can actually be a problem rather than a solution. CapnoBreath Training (“capno” means CO2) is about integrating knowledge of respiratory chemistry with the mechanics of breathing, where emphasis is on the relationship dynamics of these mechanics rather than on specific techniques or applications, as is usually the case. CapnoBreath Training is about: (1) knowledge-learning for understanding basic breathing chemistry concepts (2) sign-learning for recognizing the symptoms of overbreathing (3) mechanics-learning for diaphragmatic, rate, and depth awareness (4) visceral-learning for developing an internalized sense of chemistry (5) state-learning for developing a sense of chemistry and consciousness. The objective of CapnoBreath Training is to learn to breathe inside-out rather than outside-in. That is, the whole body breathes, every cell breathes, not just the lungs. Learning good respiration is learning about what it “feels like,” and is ultimately not about “how to do it right.” The desire or need for “control” is a metaphor that is frequently embedded in deregulated breathing patterns.