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There is perhaps no better means to effectively teaching about the role of learning in physiological regulation, the Institute mission, than introducing people to the subject of dysfunctional breathing habits and their profound effects on fundamental human physiology. It provides the perfect vehicle for not only intellectual understanding, but serious experiential appreciation. No one, of course, questions the importance of breathing, but its fundamental role in basic physiological regulation is complex and little understood by even most professional healthcare practitioners. Compounding the impact of this lack of understanding is the failure to appreciate, or even realize, that by identifying breathing as behavior the vast literature of behavioral psychology becomes immediately relevant in profoundly practical ways to millions suffering with the consequences of having unwittingly learned dysfunctional breathing. Truly, what we have to say simply becomes the obvious, when we give up our philosophical division of physiology and psychology. We are not introducing new untested hypotheses, new concepts, or new methodologies. The physiology is medical textbook knowledge. The psychology is of the most conservative kind, the most highly documented. We have simply put these “off the shelf” literatures together in, frankly, a most obvious manner. It sets the stage, however, for understanding that physiology, in itself, is the rise of consciousness, where clients realize through experience that both they and their physiology learn together. The consequence of self-discovering how psychology is a statement about how physiology regulates itself, is often that people learn to look within themselves for answers about symptoms and deficits, rather than only to professional experts, e.g. therapists, who often reinforce the view that their clients are victim to factors outside of themselves, e.g., “bad weather.” Our work is “client-centered” rather than “practitioner-centered,” where the emphasis is on learning by clients, rather than treatment by practitioners. Click below on topics of interest. They were designed to read sequentially. CapnoLearning Respiration Behavioral hypocapnia Breathing behavior Case History Efficacy