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4-7-8 breathing

Compared in the reviewR8 · 2 full-text papers, 1 abstract-only

At least one paper behind this review states what this option was measured against. That is not a ranking, and this option carries no evidence profile of its own.

Round-2 tier-3 flag: thin - under 4 full-text papers.

Requirements it fills
  • daily regulation practice
    Emotional · 2 papers put it here (1 stated, 1 inferred)
  • in-the-moment reset
    Emotional · 1 paper put it here
  • pre-sleep wind-down
    Sleep · 2 papers put it here (1 stated, 1 inferred)
How it is performed
  • Inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 7 seconds, exhale slowly for 8 seconds. Posture involves placing one hand on the belly and the other on the chest.

    Patrícia Szabó, Cecília Sik-Lanyi, R. Cserjési (2026) · Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback · 10.1007/s10484-026-09781-x
    The Impact of Modifying 3D Environments: The Role of Presence in VR Breathing Exercises.
Dose

Measured in sets × time — derived from the review's own dose_and_time prose.

Dose and time, as the papers state it
  • Inhaling for 4 seconds, holding for 7 seconds, exhaling for 8 seconds.

    Patrícia Szabó, Cecília Sik-Lanyi, R. Cserjési (2026) · Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback · 10.1007/s10484-026-09781-x
    The Impact of Modifying 3D Environments: The Role of Presence in VR Breathing Exercises.
Equipment

Equipment is a property of the movement and is authored, never derived from the evidence corpus (docs/research/round2/ROUND2_KNOWN_CORRECTIONS.md §1). This option resolves to no catalogue exercise, so nothing has authored it yet.

Level and prerequisites

R8's level field records who was eligible for the trial, not what a person needs before trying the practice, so it is not carried here.

Progression and regression

No row states how to make this option harder or easier.

Who should not do this

The papers behind this option report nothing on contraindications, which is not the same as saying there are none.

Setting, as the studies used it

No row describes the setting.

What the papers compared it with

No paper compares this option with another or calls it interchangeable with one.

A paper measuring one option against another does not make the two interchangeable, and it does not say which to choose. These are listed as what the papers did, and nothing here proposes a substitution.

4-7-8 breathing