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Is there anyone else in this thread who does not have this problem? I don't seem to, and I wonder if I just haven't noticed it. With only the people who share the difficulty speaking up, I don't have a sense of how common it is, and therefore how likely it is that I'm an exception. On the other hand, the "you are now breathing manually" meme doesn't work on me, either, and neither does this observation of Yvain's:
So maybe there actually is a physical difference here.
I don't experience anything uncomfortable when observing my breath. Also, when I'm observing my breath and breathing at a normal rate, I have no idea if I'm consciously controlling the breath or just observing autonomous breathing. It feels like the inhalations and exhalations start by themselves, but I could be just fooling myself.
I don't meditate regularly, but I've been doing the breath observation meditation thing occasionally for something like 15 years.