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.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.)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.Why would we evolve to have volitional control over our breathing?