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◄ 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 behaviour, 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 behaviour 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 behaviour 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. Copyrighted by Behavioral
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