Your Breathing Brain & Breath's Role in Recovery

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Hi everyone and welcome to Chapters 8 & 9!

Chapter 8 focuses on the brain and the role that it plays in breathing. As Jill says on p. 160, “…by now you may have experimented with several bottom-up explorations and felt how your body affects your mind, mood, and thinking….Now it’s time to look at the neural pattern generators of breath within your brain.”

The main fascination I had with Chapter 8 is the sheer fact that scientists don’t yet know the brain’s exact role in breathing. On p. 161, Jill explains that “Pinpointing how breaths begin in the brain is a vexing task that neuroscience is getting closer to accomplishing.”