I think it ' s generational . I want my throat and chest done it ' s my body I ' ll do what I want . Yet they have no other tatttoos and are completely unprepared for any ramifications . And the artist has no issue because the money is green . I ' ve been in real shops when people were told no I won ' t put your first tattoo There . They couldn ' t handle it and probably bitched in yelp <| sep |> No you wouldnt . I have seen things like this before . The carnage is to real . <| sep |> Me 2 thanks <| sep |> Hmmmmmm . You have many options . Two options that quickly come to mind are 1 You can consider focusing your attention more on the rise and fall of the abdomenchest . 2 You can confront the issue more directly and force yourself to switch to breathing through your nose . This can be very uncomfortable and may even bring up unconscious memories and sensations of being unable to breathe . If you persevere with mindful awareness and equanimity , good things are likely to happen . There are so many unconscious assumptions that we have about our body and breathing that are false . Confronting those assumptions can allow one to develop an even more intimate and direct experience of the body . If # 2 is too difficult , you can take # 1 . If you do that , you can still eventually pick up option 2 again . Or maybe you ' ll find that you don ' t have to confront the issue so directly like I suggested . When i focus on my breathing after a few breathins and breathouts , i have a feeling I ' m lacking on air and i try to inhale more next time , which makes me lose rhythm . As i struggle with rhythm , i feel the excessive air building in my throatkind of air pocket and after some time i can hear that air going down my stomachmaking the noise . All of this makes me think way too much about my next breath and i lose focus , hence making my session pointless . First of all , the session is never pointless . That ' s practice . Secondly , your experience of the breath is based around so many unconscious assumptions . It ' s only through practice and exploration can you began to have direct experience of what is actually possible . Relax and explore things . Relax and explore the lacking on air feeling . Relax and explore the excessive air building in my throat feeling . Relax , relax , relax . and explore .