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CapnoLearning™ is about behaviour modification, based on the behavioural analysis of breathing. It includes the following:

● Education: misconceptions about breathing, misinterpretations of personal behaviour
● Applied behavioural analysis: partnering in self-discovery learning
● Negative practice: practicing bad habits for learning good ones
● Desensitisation: extinction of classically conditioned emotions

● Extinction: removing reinforcements for counterproductive breathing mechanics

● Awareness training: becoming aware of the brainstem reflex

● Exposure training: intentional overbreathing and learning about its effects

● Reciprocal inhibition: relaxation training for blocking unwanted emotions
● Cognitive restructuring: learning new self-talk, new interpretations of experience
● PCO₂ feedback training: learning new responses to symptoms of hypocapnia
● Operant learning: teaching new behaviours, new habits in old situations, generalisation
● Stimulus control (S^D and CS): inside-dependent vs. outside-dependent learning

● Stimulus generalisation: learning good breathing under diverse circumstances
● State-dependent learning: developing new behavioural patterns, senses of self
● Classical conditioning: embracement physiology instead of fight-flight physiology
● Mental Rehearsal: learning through imagination, imagery, hypnosis
● Role-playing: learning through simulating challenging circumstances
● In vivo challenges: learning in the field while encountering real life challenges
● Short-term solutions: short-circuiting vicious circle behaviour during crisis

Copyrighted by Behavioural Physiology Institute, Boulder, Colorado USA