Skorzeny hits the nail on the head. Breathing is the key to staying calm in situations of stress. I'm not a competition shooter, LEO, or soldier, but I am a serious waterfall ice climber. In that discipline, if you lose your cool, you die (or,possibly, rip your achillies tendon in half- which happened to one of my buddies when he got freaked out). When I get stressed I take deep, strong, breaths. The calming effect occurs almost immediately and breathing like that in times of stress can become a reflex if you conciously do it enough.
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