Typical meditation practices involve slowing and/or deliberately controlling one's breathing, such as through slow cyclic breathing or box breathing.

“More typically, a meditation practice involves slowing one's breathing, and this could be in the form of cyclic breathing of inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, which is cyclic, or, in some cases, doubling up on inhales and then exhaling, so inhale, inhale, exhale, inhale, inhale, exhale, or controlling the duration of inhale, breath hold, exhale, breath hold, repeat, so-called box breathing where the inhale, the hold, the exhale, and the hold are of equivalent durations.”