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CapnoLearning™ is about behavior modification, based on the behavioral analysis of breathing. It includes the following:

● Education: misconceptions about breathing, misinterpretations of personal behavior
● Applied behavioral analysis: partnering in self-discovery learning
● Negative practice: practicing bad habits for learning good ones
● Desensitization: extinction of classically conditioned emotions

● Extinction: removing reinforcements for counterproductive breathing mechanics

● Awareness training: becoming aware of the brainstem reflex

● Exposure training: intentional overbreathing and learning about its effects

● Reciprocal inhibition: relaxation training for blocking unwanted emotions
● Cognitive restructuring: learning new self-talk, new interpretations of experience
● PCO₂ feedback training: learning new responses to symptoms of hypocapnia
● Operant learning: teaching new behaviors, new habits in old situations, generalization
● Stimulus control (S^D and CS): inside-dependent vs. outside-dependent learning

● Stimulus generalization: learning good breathing under diverse circumstances
● State-dependent learning: developing new behavioral patterns, senses of self
● Classical conditioning: embracement physiology instead of fight-flight physiology
● Mental Rehearsal: learning through imagination, imagery, hypnosis
● Role-playing: learning through simulating challenging circumstances
● In vivo challenges: learning in the field while encountering real life challenges
● Short-term solutions: short-circuiting vicious circle behavior during crisis

Copyrighted by Behavioral Physiology Institute, Boulder, Colorado USA