Learn diaphragmatic breathing to manage stress, reduce anxiety, and focus yourself
Umm, I think I already know how to breathe.
Yes, almost certainly. And you also know that when you are stressed or anxious your breathing changes. These shifts can feed forward and produce additional symptoms of stress, including lightheadedness, dizziness, chest pressure, a tendency to increase muscle tension, and paresthesias (numbness and tingling in the extremities).
The stress response developed to help us cope with marauding tigers, but it also switches on when we're confronted with an angry boss, screaming kids, orthat lookfrom our partner. It produces changes in various parts of our body that we're not used to controlling directly. It would be great to have a handle we could use to ramp stress down - something influenced by stress but over which we also have clear conscious control. That handle is proper breathing.
This course provides instruction in four-stage breathing, an exercise designed to activate the diaphragm, enhance awareness of the distinction between diaphragmatic and intercostal breathing, and provide a strategy you can use to enhance your control over the stress response. You'll start out practicing when you're calm and relaxed, then use it in gradually more difficult situations, until you can practice in the middle of that challenging business meeting - and no one will be the wiser.
You'll get a series of twelve brief lectures, plus downloadable PDF text material on diaphragmatic breathing exercises and how to link your practice to stressful situations.
Contents: 12 mp4; 3 pdf
Lecture 1: Introductions and Caution
Lecture 2: The Physiology of Breathing
Lecture 3: Your Baseline Breathing
Lecture 4: Stress and Breathing
Lecture 5: Intercostal Breathing
Lecture 6: Overbreathing and Symptoms
Lecture 7: Breathing with the Diaphragm
Lecture 8: Four Stage Breathing
Lecture 9: The Breathing Practice
Lecture 10: Cue Controlled Relaxation
Lecture 11: Course Wrapup
Lecture 12: A Guided Breathing Session
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Umm, I think I already know how to breathe.
Yes, almost certainly. And you also know that when you are stressed or anxious your breathing changes. These shifts can feed forward and produce additional symptoms of stress, including lightheadedness, dizziness, chest pressure, a tendency to increase muscle tension, and paresthesias (numbness and tingling in the extremities).
The stress response developed to help us cope with marauding tigers, but it also switches on when we're confronted with an angry boss, screaming kids, orthat lookfrom our partner. It produces changes in various parts of our body that we're not used to controlling directly. It would be great to have a handle we could use to ramp stress down - something influenced by stress but over which we also have clear conscious control. That handle is proper breathing.
This course provides instruction in four-stage breathing, an exercise designed to activate the diaphragm, enhance awareness of the distinction between diaphragmatic and intercostal breathing, and provide a strategy you can use to enhance your control over the stress response. You'll start out practicing when you're calm and relaxed, then use it in gradually more difficult situations, until you can practice in the middle of that challenging business meeting - and no one will be the wiser.
You'll get a series of twelve brief lectures, plus downloadable PDF text material on diaphragmatic breathing exercises and how to link your practice to stressful situations.
Lecture 1: Introductions and Caution
Lecture 2: The Physiology of Breathing
Lecture 3: Your Baseline Breathing
Lecture 4: Stress and Breathing
Lecture 5: Intercostal Breathing
Lecture 6: Overbreathing and Symptoms
Lecture 7: Breathing with the Diaphragm
Lecture 8: Four Stage Breathing
Lecture 9: The Breathing Practice
Lecture 10: Cue Controlled Relaxation
Lecture 11: Course Wrapup
Lecture 12: A Guided Breathing Session
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