This technique outperformed mindfulness meditation

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Millions of people use mindfulness meditation to manage their stress, and it works. But, a Stanford clinical trial found something that works even better, and it only takes 5 minutes. It's called cyclic sighing. Breathe in through your nose, take one more sip of air to fill your lungs completely, then exhale slowly through your mouth. Repeat for 5 minutes. It's that simple. Pair this against mindfulness meditation, box breathing, and cyclic hyperventilation, cyclic sighing produced the greatest improvements in daily mood, more joy, more calm, and more energy. And the longer participants practiced, the more those benefits compounded over the course of the study.