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Respiratory System Involvement in Western Relaxation and Self-Regulation

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Behavioral and Psychological Approaches to Breathing Disorders

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Respiratory changes are consistently found during the practice of almost all relaxation techniques and specific manipulation of respiratory activity is employed in many of them. The purpose of this chapter is to review several Western relaxation techniques, and to describe the involvement of the respiratory system in each.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Robert W. Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854-5635, USA

    Paul M. Lehrer

  2. Department of Psychology, Rutgers—the State University, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854, USA

    Robert L. Woolfolk

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Lehrer, P.M., Woolfolk, R.L. (1994). Respiratory System Involvement in Western Relaxation and Self-Regulation. In: Timmons, B.H., Ley, R. (eds) Behavioral and Psychological Approaches to Breathing Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9383-3_14

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