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◄ WHO IS THE LEARNER?
Cognitive
learning, by you, sets the stage for healthy learning by your physiology, the
mindfulness of physiology. Misconceptions,
misinformation, inaccurate beliefs about biological self, experiential
unfamiliarity with breathing, misinterpretation of physical sensations,
distrust of the body, defensive thinking, self-talk, and intentional breath
manipulation all contribute to learning deregulated breathing behaviour.
Who learned the
deregulated breathing behaviour? Did
you? Or, did your body learn the
behaviour?” Remember that physiology
self-regulates based on learning and motivation, and that very little behaviour
is learned intentionally and/or consciously by you. So who do we “blame?” Who’s, or what’s, responsible?
It is simply a
convenience to say, “Merry learned it.” Implicit
in this statement is personal intentionality and responsibility. If Merry and/or an "expert” decides it
wasn’t Merry, then who was it? Was it
her “unconscious?” If so, learning is
perceived as isolated from the body, and thus retaining its status as separate
from biology, goes unrecognised as an inherently integral part of homeostasis
physiology.
Classical
conditioning and operant conditioning, for example (as described elsewhere), play
a powerful role in regulating your physiology without your realising it, or for
that matter, realisation by anyone else.
As a result, symptoms and deficits, which may go along with some of this
conditioning, remain unidentified, unexplained, or attributed to other factors. Breathing behaviour is an excellent example of
how the “WHO” may attributed to a “disorder” rather than to learning, and/or to
“you” rather than to unconscious learning unwittingly arranged by you and the
people around you.
Click here to learn
about
classical conditioning
and operant conditioning.
Basic biological learning accounts for placebo effects usually dismissed
by practitioners as artifacts, unreal,
irrelevant, nuisance, and fake, rather than as signs of physiology deregulated
through learning. The principles by
which placebo effects emerge are powerful tools to be placed in the hands of
everyone. CapnoLearning™,
offered by our practitioners, provides a doorway into
understanding the mindfulness of physiology.
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