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A breath coach told me that breathing on a timer stresses some people out instead of calming them down. E.g., people who have experienced trauma. Submitting the
by spiffytech 1y ago
A breath coach told me that breathing on a timer stresses some people out instead of calming them down. E.g., people who have experienced trauma. Submitting their bodily functions to an outside force's control can be very stressful.
Her approach adapted breathing patterns to listen to your body's internal signals for when to breath in and out.
- riffraff 1y agoI don't have trauma (that I can recall) which seems breath related, but this is my case. I'm also kinda ok with guided breath work of the "breath in, hold, out" kind but if I'm counting I get stressed out.
- mike_ivanov 1y agoEMDR helped me to get rid of this controlled breathing stress.
- xcrunner529 1y agoWhat’s EMDR? I think I have this too. I used to end up after headspace usually with a higher heart rate from overthinking and unnatural counting of my breaths.
- mike_ivanov 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_and_reprocessing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_a...