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Meditation

Last modified: Dec 10th, 2025

• When Then Zen - learning resource by Christine Dodrill (Xe Iaso)
• Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal
  • Daily 5-minute breathwork and mindfulness meditation improve mood and reduce anxiety
  • Breathwork improves mood and physiological arousal more than mindfulness meditation
  • Cyclic sighing is most effective at improving mood and reducing respiratory rate
  • HN thread with video links
  • Box breathing has definitely been helpful for me - to relax, or calm down when anxious
• Breath becoming very subtle/shallow
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/36whb3/weird_shallowness_of_breath/
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/190ucu/my_breathing_seems_to_get_too_shallow_to_notice/
• Path to first jhana
• Box breathing visual
• How to Jhana — with Michael Taft
• Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana
  • I read this, it was good and helpful
• Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas

Risks

• https://vividness.live/meditation-risks
• https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/my-ethical-conundrum-around-writing