NLP Rapport is the presence of trust, harmony, and cooperation. Well, rapport is not a step, it is something that needs to be achieved and then maintained.

A way to know you have rapport is that you can pace and lead a client. Or in non-NLP terms, you follow your client in whatever it is they verbally or non-verbally do and then you lead them in to doing something else unconsciously. When they follow you, you are sure to have rapport. In this article, we will learn about building rapport with breath matching.

Here the simple exercise to improve your breath matching:
- When your significant other next to you is sleeping. Match his/her breathing for a minute or two. Then breath faster, and notice if he/she starts breathing faster. Then slow your breathing, and notice what happens.
- Understand the client, and what physical reactions occur within me, breathing at that rate (not enough oxygen in to the brain causes a feeling anxiety.)
- Pace and lead the client in to slower breathing to help them relax. Or speed up their breathing to elicit a state of for instance excitement.
- Another way to establish rapport through breathing, is to tap your foot at the same rate. Then slow or speed up your tapping.

With so many people being informed of matching, mirroring and cross-over mirroring people are increasingly becoming too aware of the technique. Matching breathing is very hard to detect by another person, and an incredibly handy tool to use.

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