[chrisweekly]

Even easier: start by simply breathing in and out through your nose, without trying to control the duration. Just sitting and breathing.

[hn_throw2025]

The person I replied to needed a gateway to box breathing. This means getting used to mild hypoxia. Not measuring your breathing will probably result in regular patterns where the outbreath is the same or shorter than the inbreath. So, no.

[chrisweekly]

Ok, sure. But the context was a "starting point", which is what I suggested. Babies need to learn to crawl before they walk (let alone run).