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When Your Body Forgets How to Breathe Naturally

I have been holding my breath without realizing it for months and when I finally notice I gasp like I was drowning and my chest feels like concrete.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system has learned to armor itself through respiratory restriction as a survival strategy.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Body knowledge and somatic intelligence?”

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