What is Reddit's opinion of Prana Breath: Calm & Meditate?

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Sure, counting the breaths is a technique that not all but many meditation teachers recommend. It's a kind of "noting" or "labelling" phenomena that arise while meditating and it helps to establish a mind state called "calm abiding" (samatha). And it may just as well help you to count the duration of each in and out breath. Culadasa in his book The Mind Illuminated also recommends to look ever more closely at all aspects of the breath, e.g. the length of in- and out-breath and the pauses in between and how they compare to each other. At some point, once you established samatha, the counting will naturally disappear, as you don't need it any more.

You may find the teachings and instructions of S.N. Goenka interesting. He emphasised that meditation goes hand in hand with ALL religions. (It just so happens that Goenka was not a big fan of counting the breaths. But do it anyways if you find it useful.)

And check out the app Pranayama Breath if you want to keep a particular rythm of breathing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath

What have you tried that has or hasn't worked? I have sleep issues as well. Cbd oil or just smoking/eating weed in general, copa iba, and breathing exercises.

This is a nice and simple breathing app to learn techniques, if you have Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath

Concentrate on your breathing. Every time your mind goes to something else, just go back to your breathing. I’m definitely NOT an expert, but I use the app Prana Breath which really helps me when I need to calm down.

There is a huge world for meditation and every person could use different type.

Just choose want feels right to you

If you want active moving meditations, search for catharsis https://youtu.be/xYMTXYB-Fvk this one is great, or even punching pillows can work. You can also try osho dynamic.

On the other spectrum, you can try hatha yoga or yin yoga.

If its pure meditation youre looking for, try vipassana or mindfulness (they have retreat centers everywhere) its very hard, sitting many hours, very strict .. but the benefits are amazing.

But my first recommendation would be breathing... You can try downloading the app prana breath (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath) and play with it... Or check 4:7:8 or type "pranayama" Im google

I used to use an app called Prana Breath which helped me a lot since I knew nothing at all about meditation and stuff like that, it's very user-friendly.

I suggest you to try it out because, at least for me, after every session I always felt good and energized, plus meditation kicks away the urges, what do you want more? ;)

I imagine this is like when you were a kid and you got on the bicycle the first few times.

To prevent anxiety or heart attack, learn to breath properly when you're under stress and need to relax. Seems silly but it does help. Like others said, the stress will probably be less as you get more experience and more comfortable with the work.

This is the app that I use for breathing.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath&hl=en_US&gl=US

I meditate with Prana breath off and on for about 5 years. I like that there is no taking and a variety of training options. There are audio and visuals as well. I've calmed myself from a panic attack using this app.

I also use downdog app to try to practice every day. Again there is a lot of customization on voice type, length, style and directions. This has been the best at home workout for me and I've tried a lot of different things from P90x, pelaton, to a rowing machine, etc.

Basically, I've tried almost anything an article and therapist has recommended to me over my mental health journey. The thing I've finally realized is to pick up each thing, when I need it. It may not be every day and definitely not the same thing in a week, but to try to do something daily. This seems to fit my personality the best.

I hope this helps someone on their journey!

Prana Breath App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath

A helpful place to start with Pranayama. The designer is Ukrainian and sent out a message to please practice patience with the app for the time being. Nonetheless, I have used Prana (and this app) before matra mediation, yoga, or Apnea training as a warm-up and find it helpful.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath

I tried 30 application and this one is easily the best one. Lots of breathing exercise that you can modify, create your own, view you stats for day, week, months

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I know it might seem simple, but I have found it very effective. If you have not tried this breathing app, Please give it a solid week of effort. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath&hl=en_US once installed, if you flip up on the screen, you will find options for Relaxing and Anti-Stress. these are my fav

I use this app and practice Square Breathing (there's a Sanskrit term for it but I can't remember) Its not in the app by default but I added it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath

For meditation, I'm a beginner and find it easier via guided sessions. Currently I'm doing a 30 day course called "How to Meditate" in Calm Premium Subscription.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calm.android

Thanks for taking the time do to such an in depth reply. I think it's important to have more awareness on the subject since there's a crucial lack of information and discussion on this matter. There lot of information to cover, having a dedicated sub for this matter might be a interesting idea; modern pollution and how to deal with it.

I do sauna at least three times a week, happy to learn it might help for this matter, it such a great thing to do. I recently added pranayama breathing withing the sauna and I had amazing result.

I don't really freak out about all this, It's more for me about optimizing all the small detail in my life to live more healthy, awake and happy.

Cheers.

Why can't you get through it? Have you tried an app? if you're on android this one is awesome. So much control and structure. You can gradually work yourself up if the problem is what you're practicing is too hard...if it's patience and keeping structure over a long period of time, the app is amazing. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath&hl=en

This app, Prana Breath, which visualizes breathing habits has really helped me. Deep, calming breaths do wonders for stress.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath Do not underestimate the power of breathing.

I use an app called Prana Breath on Android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath

I use Prana Breath. It's simple and light https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath

You realize in Zen meditation your eyes are open? But yes there is something good about "quantum breathing"--the "Prana Breath" app for Android calls it "Harmony" and has you do 1 in 4 hold 2 out 1 hold out instead of 1-1-1-1. I do four seconds so it's about one breath every 32 seconds--four seconds in, hold for sixteen, eight seconds out, hold for four seconds. And sometimes I'll hold the in or out for a complete cycle and start breathing again after the extra 32 second hold. It seems to massage the vagus nerve system.

And there is something with Vipassana meditation as well. I attended a ten day silent retreat earlier this year and part of the spell that they didn't fully describe seems to be a hypoxia high--getting high off long time lack of oxygen. I could feel my heart beating in 2/3s of my body and almost felt like I was flying.

There are also some people who claim that DMT is produced in your lungs.

My go to is Prana Breath Totally customizable in every aspect down to the millisecond.

First: breathing techniques. Learn & practice them daily. Doesn’t take more than 5 min. https://www.anxieties.com/57/panic-step4 & https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-12936/3-reasons-everyone-should-try-alternate-nostril-breathing.html

Second: if you fancy it, this helps long term, meditation. You can use an app to help you along, ex https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath&hl=en_US

Third: music. https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/neuroscience-says-listening-to-this-one-song-reduces-anxiety-by-up-to-65-percent.html

Fourth: work on your cognitive distortions. This: https://arfamiliesfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Cognitive-Distortions.pdf & https://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/sites/default/files/wellness-module-8-healthy-thinking.pdf

Fifth: if you can, https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ashwagandha&ref=is_s - don’t go for the cheapest, but if you can, get good quality. Takes about 2-3 wks of daily use to kick in.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath&hl=en

i used https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath

for android, good one

This app is helpful for me in terms of learning exercises, though I don't have much of an academic background on the topic.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath

Oh well, if it's done it's done. I can tell you the tips that helped me overcome it.

1. Go to https://www.flightradar24.com and zoom out - just look at the sheer amount of planes up in the air right now, all without incident.
   1. If you still need a sense of scale, think about this - Think of a single day of the year. Then think of flightradar24 on that day. Then choose a particular hour, and then a particular plane out of this mess, and mark it as red. Let's say that plane has a problem, and it crashes (though usually even if it crashes, most people are ok). What is the odd that it is your exact plane? It's so astronomically low, but our brains don't really computer numbers so seeing them on flight radar and imagining the throngs of planes every day helped me put the low risk into perspective.
2. The crashes that happen are always on the news, and there is usually no more than one per year. This year was special because of these new planes - which have ALL been grounded so you don't need to worry about that. But the ones that were newsworthy in the recent years (I'm thinking of the partially ejected passenger and the asia airline that hit the SFO seawall) had a few deaths but the rest of the hundreds of passengers were uninjured, yet those were by far the worst flight incidents that year. Thing of the vast, vast number of flights that go on right now without incident.
3. Practice breathing exercises. When you are nervous, focus on nothing else but your breathing (this app helps, use it to time your in breath deep into your belly, holding it, breathing out through your nose, and holding again, in different ratios, called Pranayama breathing), and make it your goal to calm your muscles through breathing. Anxiety is always accompanied with muscle tension and even if you can't calm your thoughts, you can calm your muscles through breathing and that works too.
4. Books like Soar: the breakthrough method for fear of flying, have more tips to help if you need.

the app

Breathing exercises (I use Prana breath app)

Do breath exercise. If you have android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pranabreath

Eu sinto quase exatamente os sintomas que você disse e algumas coisas a mais. As vezes eu sinto que o pior dos sintomas é sentir que tem algo errado e não saber o que, ou seja, o puro creme da ansiedade. Faço análise faz quase 3 anos, e tudo começou quando eu comecei a tirar carta de motorista, coisa que consegui concluir com muito custo, mas não dirijo (ainda). Lógico que a questão é bem mais profunda, dirigir é apenas uma das coisas que a ansiedade me impede de fazer. Minha analista é psicóloga, não psiquiatra, logo não podo receitar medicamentos. Uma época ela me sugeriu procurar um médico para receitar algum medicamento. Tomei por 1 mês, coisa leve (bupropiona), mas desisti. Até fazia efeito, mas era uma calma tão induzida, artificial, que eu não quis mais tomar, prefiro encontrar meu caminho sem o uso de medicamentos, ou morrer tentando. Fora a ansiedade, os sintomas adicionais que eu sinto incluem um sentimento constante de bosta. Sabe quando todo lugar que vc olha, tanto da sua vida, quanto do ambiente a sua volta, sociedade, profissão, família, é tudo bosta? De um tempo pra cá, isso virou meu mantra. "É tudo bosta", e com isso uma sensação meio fria de não se importar com nada, e depois de lutar contra um sentimento esmagador de culpa por isso (que é outro dos meus sintomas, uma culpa avassaladora por coisas irracionais.) hoje consegui reverter isso para meu benefício, pois não se importar com as coisas, pra quem é ansioso, é uma coisa valiosa. A ironia disso é astronômica, mas só assim eu consegui sentir um pouco de alívio, o que é bom. Ao mesmo tempo um pouco perigosa, porque qd não estou muito forte, parece que não me importo de estar vivo, fico só parado esperando morrer, e quando bate essa sensação que vc descreveu (o medo de estar doente), parece que a morte vai bater a qualquer momento... É uma das piores sensações que eu sinto. Meu relato não parece muito animador, mas hoje estou bem, com certeza melhor que 2 anos atrás, quando fiquei 1 ano inteiro trancado em casa, por opção, sem vontade de ver gente, vivendo uma vida miserável (do meu ponto de vista). Meu namorado me deu muita força nessa época, e sou muito grato a ele por isso. Eu sempre fui meio deprimido, ele foi a primeira pessoa na minha vida que teve paciência com esse meu lado. Quando decidi não tomar remédio, me comprometi a ter mais disciplina com a meditação e com exercícios de respiração, tem apps muito bons e gratuitos para isso no google play, o que eu uso é esse aqui e quando comecei a sentir resultado da pratica, me senti muito grato por não ter entrado no caminho do remédio. Desde então recomendo isso pra todo mundo, inclusive para quem não sofre de ansiedade (ou quem não sabe que sofre de ansiedade, pq olha, o mundo ta cheio desses viu).