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It’s also known as *sama vritti pranayama*, born of the yogic practice of pranayama, or focusing on the breath.
Its common name, “box breathing,” refers to the fact that a box has four sides, a concept represented here by breathing while you slowly count to four for a total of four times — four counts of breathing in, four counts of holding your breath, four counts of exhaling and four more counts of holding after your exhale.
How Box Breathing Can Help You Destress
Melissa Young
Managing your references, notes, and what you’ve read is an essential part of knowledge work, but the reading (or watching, if you’re in that kind of field) and the output needs to be at the centre of whatever you’re doing.
The Promise and Distraction of Productivity and Note-Taking Systems
Baldur Bjarnason's Notes on the Web
This is one reason why we continually grasp for the latest get-rich-quick or weight-loss scheme. New plans offer hope because we don’t have any experiences to ground our expectations. New strategies seem more appealing than old ones because they can have unbounded hope.
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
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