[From NIH National Library of Medicine: Cell Rep Med. 2023 Jan 17; 4(1): 100895. Published online 2023 Jan 10. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100895]
With the emergence of controlled breathwork practices as potential tools for stress management and well-being, this study compared three different daily five-min. breathwork exercises with an equivalent period of mindfulness meditation over a period of one month.
The results showed that breath-work, especially exhale-focused cyclic sighing, produces greater improvement in mood and reduction in respiratory rate compared with mindfulness meditation. Daily five-minute cyclic sighing has particular promise as an effective stress management exercise.
Read more at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9873947/