Box Breathing Techniques and Benefits

Re:Box Breathing Techniques and Benefits by orzig on Sunday November 13, 2022 @04:57PM (#33587794)

This isn't a great article, but for Box Breathing and many other zero-risk wellness activities: Just try it. There's huge variation between people, so obsessing over the impact on the average person will take more energy than getting concrete data on how well it works for you over the course of a week.

FWIW it's been a small but positive addition to my stress reducing toolbag. Best of luck.

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Re:Box Breathing Techniques and Benefits by cactusplant7374 on Sunday November 13, 2022 @04:59PM (#33587811)

Counting a few seconds seems within the realm of human abilities. It doesn’t need an app.

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Re:Box Breathing Techniques and Benefits by ars on Sunday November 13, 2022 @06:52PM (#33588623)

I just tried it and my heart started beating faster, and I felt very stressed.

It was not a pleasant sensation, and I quickly stopped and went back to regular breathing.

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Re:Box Breathing Techniques and Benefits by Ebree on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:42PM (#33615444)

Because a natural thing is to breath regularly in and out in the same pace stabilising pulse variability, not forcing 4 arbitrary phases disrupting natural cycle. I think that for a deeper syncing even better is to try to follow these intuitive tops and bottoms - it's like prolonging breath and filling a specific sensation. But it's more for relaxation as breath becomes slower & longer then nearly using only stomach/diaphragm.

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