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In your experience do you also find that the average person making basic errors when breathing? Are they inefficient breathers? What are the long term consequences? I changed the way I breathe several decades ago after a few yoga lessons, and has come in useful almost every day. Being mindful of ones diaphragm was key, ie, if I am still doing it correctly.

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I think you mentioned the main ones, awareness of breathing rate / depth and relaxing your abdominal muscles / diaphragm to breathe deeply. Interesting side note - the innervation for the diaphragm comes from the neck, so if you are aware of sensation of it, it's experienced in the shoulder region.

Breathing depth and rate is so closely linked to physiological stress. Breathing exercises are such a simple intervention to break this cycle but they do work surprisingly well.

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