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What do you do when you can't sleep? (piefed.world)
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[–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Just a variation of general breathing exercises.
Created to calm the body and nervous system down, generally used to help with anxiety, stress, insomnia.

  1. Breathing in while counting to 4(roughly 4 seconds).
  2. holding breath while slowly counting to 4.
  3. breathing out while counting to 4.
  4. waiting for 4 seconds before breathing in again.

https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-is-box-breathing

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I found putting a number of seconds on it made it much harder for me because I was concentrating so hard on breathing exactly x seconds. Just making it even and slow worked much better. YMMV

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I don't necessarily subscribe to this belief but there are certainly purveyors of breathing excellence who would tell you that the count for each side of the box is important.

    I agree that counting is challenging.

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