[Noonnomad]

Agree with the interesting and disturbing.

My experience with breath holding comes from free diving – where before descending I would hyper-ventilate to enrich my blood so I could stay under water longer.

I've read also but never tried the meditative forms of slowing down your heart rate and breathing patterns.

Either one will have an effect on your nervous system and the release of chemicals and hormones in your blood stream.

Perhaps when you are sleeping and your breathing rate slows down a sub-conscious memory is triggered from your stressful and unpleasant situation and this also leads to release of the chemicals and hormones preventing you from sleeping..

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