Research

Emotional regulation

Stress and calm

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Does breathwork work, and what about the Wim Hof method?Short daily breathing practice has solid controlled evidence for mood and physiological arousal, and one exhale-focused technique outperformed mindfulness meditation in a randomised trial. The Wim Hof method genuinely dampens an induced immune response, in very small samples of healthy young men, where participants who expected it to work responded more strongly.

Strength of evidence

evidence-informed

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