Health

box breathing

four-stage calming breathing exercise

A calming exercise where you breathe in, hold, breathe out, and hold again for equal amounts of time.

B2 now and then speech & writing

expression

Hear it in real life

How do you manage nerves before speaking?

I usually do box breathing for a few minutes.

Play the conversation

Box breathing helps me calm down before an important meeting.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: I do a box breath before presentations.

Say: I do box breathing before presentations.

The name of the exercise is the uncountable phrase "box breathing."

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

do box breathing; use box breathing

Your turn: say it out loud

Box breathing helps me calm down before an important meeting.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

box breathing

four-stage calming breathing exercise

“Box breathing helps me calm down before an important meeting.”

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