Different from calming down, this practice is about staying steady while something hard is happening. A consistent, rhythmic breath pattern that gives your nervous system a fixed point to return to when the pressure builds.

📚 Healing Education Library → Series 2: Feel It — Session 11: "Why You're Always On (And Can't Turn Off)" explains the nervous system mechanics behind why steadiness is a learnable skill, not a personality trait.

📁 Resource Vault → RV-21: Your Nervous System Is Not Broken — It's Adaptive gives you the framework for understanding your system and beginning to work with it rather than against it.

🏃 Movement Library → Grounding Techniques: After this breath practice, any Grounding Techniques session reinforces the steadiness with physical anchoring.