With 2 million views to his YouTube channel and countless breathwork workshops, Jesse Coomer has taught thousands of individuals how to use their breath to improve their quality of life.In that time, he's seen 3 easy to fix mistakes that keep most beginner breathwork practitioners stuck and frustrated.1. Focus on the Fundamentals instead of Chasing a HighHe says this is what very few breathwork teachers will tell you.If you’re practicing your breathwork with poor mechanics and chasing something without realizing the purpose behind it you’re going to actually worsen your breathing mechanics.Poor training, leads to poor performance.For most, that looks like feeling more anxious instead of feeling less anxious after their sessions. Even if they're trying to solve that problem with breathwork, they'll still run into a wall. Regardless of how much they try to push through, tough it out, or fix it with their willpower.Your body and your physiology will fight back every step of the way because you’re trying to make the car move forward while the gear is in park. In Jesse's methodology, what will fix it is learning how to switch gears and not just breathing harder hoping that it will work itself out.2. Learning from random influencers on YouTube (i.e. trusting the wrong people)As a semi-professional random influencer on YouTube, Jesse says that this one hurts but that the truth can hurt sometimes.With all of the popularity of breathwork, there are many voices talking about it right now. And there’s a ton of content coming out.Everything from Breathwork for Anxiety to Breathwork for Childbirth.Humanity is rediscovering a hidden treasure that’s been with them this whole time - their breath.But this is where Jesse says to be careful."When you’re allowing someone to guide you through a breathwork session; you’re not just giving them control over your breath, you’re giving them access to your Autonomic Nervous System."And many do this voluntarily.If you would not give this person the keys to your car or house then you should pause and ask yourself if you should be giving them access to something as precious and important as your nervous system.The problem is that you don’t know if this person on YouTube or this blog author is actually as knowledgeable as they’ve made themselves out to be.Jesse gives a few things to ask yourself before hopping in:- What’s their track record?- How many people have they actually helped?- Who have THEY learned from?Because depending on whether they’ve learned from a book (without any hands-on experience) or if they’ve only taken one online course without ever mastering their own breathing mechanics - things can get confusing and many go down a rabbit hole that only leads to disappointment.3. Learning the Reality of Breathwork Instead of Taking People’s Word For itThere are a ton of claims when it comes to Breathwork.It’s pretty easy to find clickbait breathwork titles online with some interesting claims:- Breathwork to make you Bulletproof- Breathe this way to fly like Superman- This Breathing Technique will make sure you never have to change your car’s oilJesse advises to find someone who has a deep understanding of what breathwork can and can't do so you can know just a few fundamentals for breathing mechanics (the why and how of breathing) so you won't be so easily fooled.Breathwork is amazing but it’s not a magic bullet.There’s a reason why one of Jesse's most popular videos is one on what to do when you get sick.Because, at the end of the day, you're still human.There are still other mountains you’re going to have to face and breathwork can be a tool to help you reach that peak.But for some things, breathwork isn’t going to fix the issue.In other words, you can breathe all day but the oil still needs to be changed in your car.