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A few years ago a friend told me about something called eye movement desensitization something (EMDR). I wasn't buying it but I built a prototype anyways, and was really impressed with how effective it was. The code is super crappy, but the experience is quite good imo. Here's a link: https://bradbarb.in/emdr/demo/
One of my COVID readings was Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, by James Nestor. Its author says, "humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly". Like your app, it proposes a lot of breathing exercises. It explains their benefits in terms of increasing CO2 tolerance, and believes that we've all got too much O2 in our systems.
That smells like horse puckey to me, but I've been unable to find an informed review either way. I'm sure that slow, deep breathing as a focus for meditation is a very good thing, and I'm sure that your particular app is well founded. But I'm curious to know if you've read that particular book, and what your opinions are.
Thanks!
A few years ago a friend told me about something called eye movement desensitization something (EMDR). I wasn't buying it but I built a prototype anyways, and was really impressed with how effective it was. The code is super crappy, but the experience is quite good imo. Here's a link: https://bradbarb.in/emdr/demo/
What was your experience? I've only used EMDR in the background of 1 on 1 therapy so I'm wondering what you get out of it when used in isolation?
A quick suggestion, I’d love to see you add the “cyclic sighing” pattern from [1] as it’s recently gotten some amount of attention for it’s effectiveness, and is potentially less common than the others.
[1]: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...
My brother made something similar as an art project: it's a circuit board with 2 LED digits. The numbers increase quickly on the inhale and slowly on the exhale so that it's in sync with 10 breaths per minute. It lures you into following it's cadence with your own breathing and you eventually get lightheaded because you're fucking with your blood gases.
" 10 breaths per second." Sure hope you meant per minute!
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What was your experience? I've only used EMDR in the background of 1 on 1 therapy so I'm wondering what you get out of it when used in isolation?
I find it relaxing. Can't really say much more than that because my experience is limited to that link I posted. How about you?
Exactly what I was looking for! A quick suggestion, I’d love to see you add the “cyclic sighing” pattern from [1] as it’s recently gotten some amount of attention for it’s effectiveness, and is potentially less common than the others. [1]: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...