9 comments

  • samrivera an hour ago

    37 days into quitting smoking and breathing exercises have been a huge help for the craving spikes. a simple terminal tool for paced breathing actually makes a lot of sense - when the craving hits at 3pm and youre staring at a screen anyway, having it right there in the terminal is way less friction than pulling out a phone app. starred.

  • iammjm 6 hours ago

    Very nice. I have no heart issues but have been experimenting with extended breathing/longer exhales to calm down my sympathetic nervous system. I believe intentional breathing is a big, mostly underutilized tool all of us have to be generally more relaxed and healthier and also to calm ourselves down in stressful situations

  • mark_l_watson 2 hours ago

    I love the zero dependency implementation. I do this style of breathing during specific time periods of practicing Qi Gong. I will try your script when I get to my laptop. Thanks.

  • skeledrew 5 hours ago

    Looks interesting. And it's pure Python with no 3p packages. Pretty trivial to support other OSes: make that audio player invocation configurable.

  • mpeg 3 hours ago

    This is cool, I have SVT and usually am able to stop an episode if I do slow breathing like that; although sometimes if that doesn’t work the modified reverse valsalva manoeuvre does it every time.

  • darcien 6 hours ago

    This reminds me of another HRV training from few years back shared here.

    - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37538028

    - https://github.com/kieranabrennan/every-breath-you-take

  • Ruslan1095 3 hours ago

    Nice work on the zero-dependency approach. I'm building a similar tool for Windows (voice-to-text) and the "no account, just run" philosophy resonates — friction kills daily habits.

  • mistrial9 2 hours ago
  • chrisvenum 7 hours ago

    Terminally breathing