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When breath awareness creates breathing anxiety

I started noticing my breath and now I cannot stop manually breathing and I am terrified that I will forget to breathe if I stop paying attention.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Conscious attention has interfered with automatic nervous system regulation.

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