Just a variation of general breathing exercises.
Created to calm the body and nervous system down, generally used to help with anxiety, stress, insomnia.
Breathing in while counting to 4(roughly 4 seconds).
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
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.
Just a variation of general breathing exercises.
Created to calm the body and nervous system down, generally used to help with anxiety, stress, insomnia.
https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-is-box-breathing
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
Yeah completely fair, just slowing down and controlling breathing is good enough for me as well.
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.