**Over-breathing stems from and causes [[anxiety]]. It goes both ways.** Breathing too fast is associated with anxiety. It's actually a bi-directional street. Anxiety causes you to breath faster and breathing too fast causes anxiety [[Box Breathing]] & other forms of [[Intentionality|intentional]] rhythmic breathing uses this biofeedback mechanism as a control to hack into your anxiety. There's a similar [[Reverse Biofeedback]] mechanism with the eyes. **** # More ## Source - [[Breath]] ## Related - [[Mouth Breathing]]