Box breathing for five minutes can substantially reduce stress.

“It's just box breathing for five to 10 minutes. - And the duration of your inhales and holds and exhales and holds is set by the app? Is that right? - Well, I do five seconds. - So, five seconds inhale, five second hold, five second, exhale, five second hold.”

“You could also use box breathing, inhale, hold, exhale, hold for equal durations for a period of five minutes, will substantially reduce stress.”

“an easy example is just box breathing so and you can imagine box having four squares so what you're going to do is inhale for somewhere between like 3 to 8 seconds and then whatever number you choose you keep that same tempo and so let's say you chose to do a 5-second inhale that's going to take you up vertically and then horizontally for your box is a 5-second hold and then a 5-second exhale and then a 5-sec hold”

“In fact, if you wanted to equilibrate your heart rate, what you would do is you would do box breathing because inhale, hold, exhale, hold is, by definition, creating equal duration inhales and exhales of essentially equivalent vigor.”

“when you do big cyclic hyperventilation AK Wim Hoff Tumo breathing your increasing heart rate in autonomic arousal”

“I find I get tremendous benefit by relatively short periods between five and maybe 20 minutes of doing box breathing.”

“do some box breathing”

“I'm going to do four in hold four exhale four hold four for about five Cycles right now”