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every day, and 7.9 million times each year! So you would think this breathing thing is
something we'd be pretty skilled at by adulthood. Indeed, you may even consider
yourself to be a breathing pro: Heck, you do it so well, you can even do it in your sleep\ue000

Yet, most of us, most of the time fail to breathe in a way that optimizes our moment-to-
moment experience and performance. More problematic is that how we have become
conditioned to breathe actually serves to escalate and intensify anxiety when under
stress! So, even though you've done it millions of times in your life, it's time to relearn
how to breathe naturally!

You will need to periodically attend to your breathing \u2013 at least for a couple of days. Then, once retrained to breathe optimally, you will open your life to a whole array of renewed adventures:

In my coaching and counseling, this is absolutely the FIRST skill I teach new clients \u2013
Because the most powerful way to be in the world is in alignment with how the body
naturally functions. I have experienced lifelong smokers discontinue smoking altogether
with just the determined application of this one powerful skill! Optimal Breathing has
been like manna from heaven in controlling chronic pain \u2013 my own as well as my clients.

And no, you do not need to become a mystic yogi to achieve such results; nor do you
need to do \u201cdeep breathing\u201d. In fact, because we have so modified our breathing, \u201cdeep
breathing\u201d becomes ineffective-breathing-with-more-vigor, and it tends to make you light-
headed and faint (which is why \u201cdeep breathing\u201d can feel so aversive). Stay away from
\u201cdeep breathing\u201d: It will only serve to escalate anxiety!

Instead, you simply need torel earn what you once knewn atur al ly as an infant; but
were trained out of by well-intentioned parents, teachers and coaches who remolded your
breathing over your childhood years. In fact, they taught us to hold the body in the exact
opposite positions of its natural mechanics: They taught us to stand up straight, stomach
in, & shoulders back \u2013 and we've breathed constricted ever since!

Have you ever watched a sleeping infant? Most striking is that during sleep, the only
detectable movement occurring is . . . the slow . . . rise . . . and . . . fall . . . of soft belly.
Even when awake, a healthy infant will breathe from soft abdomen, not the chest.

Yet, if I ask you now to take in a noticeable breath and discern what moves, most likely
your shoulders and sternum will rise up and away from your abdomen \u2013 which is the
breathing associated with hyperventilating. It may even be the case that your belly does
not expand at all; such being the power of childhood conditioning!