The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human

Re:The physiological effects of slow breathing in the health... by bonestamp2 on Thursday October 22, 2020 @10:29AM (#24858398)

For those who are curious, it's called "Box Breathing" because, if it's helpful for you, you can picture a box and then trace the edges of the box in your mind as you're counting for each of the 4 steps (inhale, hold, exhale, hold). That visual can help take your mind off whatever is making you do this in the first place.

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Re:The physiological effects of slow breathing in the health... by TedDoesntTalk on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:17AM (#24858921)

Thanks for sharing that since I did not know the reason for the name.

But a box is a cube. Since there are four steps, shouldn’t it be called square breathing?

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Re:The physiological effects of slow breathing in the health... by Crespyl on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:42AM (#24859223)

"Box" is used often enough in natural english to refer to a square, particularly in the context of diagrams. "Draw a box around it", etc.

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Re:The physiological effects of slow breathing in the health... by wlesieutre on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:01PM (#24860262)

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Re:The physiological effects of slow breathing in the health... by pelario on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:17PM (#24860447)

A 3d box is a cube, a 2d box is a square.

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Re:The physiological effects of slow breathing in the health... by pawelmi on Thursday October 22, 2020 @04:34PM (#24863009)

Does tesseract count as box too? ;)

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Re:The physiological effects of slow breathing in the health... by segfaultbuserr on Thursday October 22, 2020 @05:21PM (#24863433)

In parallel computing, similar topologies are known as the Hypercube architecture. And in English, "boxes" can refer to computers or networking devices in general, so yes? ;-)

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Re:The physiological effects of slow breathing in the health... by loco5niner on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:48AM (#24859306)

> But a box is a cube

only for some definitions of box

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