The Influence of Breathing on the Central Nervous System
"It's a start."  I find it fascinating and very hopeful that Western scientific methods are beginning to be used to understand the significance of breathing.<p>Breathing is one of only two (or three) physiological processes that are both autonomic and volitional.  (The other is blinking.  I think there might be a third one but I forget what it is.)<p>It's a weird blind spot to have, eh?  I mean, once you see it, it's weird that we (in the West) haven't been more interested in a systematic way in the effects of deliberate modulation of breath.<p>Why would we evolve to have volitional control over our breathing?