Show HN: Breathe CLI – Paced resonance breathing in the macOS terminal
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by radsj
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Awesome. While we are on this topic, here is something I built for myself while getting bored in zoom meetings (or even in-person meetings): https://avrhut.com/resonant-breathe-bar/
Based on breathing pattern you set, and a dot in the menu bar shrinking or expanding. No telemetry or ads and completely free.
by samrivera
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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.
by mpeg
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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.
by skeledrew
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Looks interesting. And it's pure Python with no 3p packages. Pretty trivial to support other OSes: make that audio player invocation configurable.
by rendx
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Interesting. I tried it for a bit over a minute (8 cycles), but then I had to stop. I get really dizzy unless I take breathing breaks after outbreaths. Will try again to see where this goes, thanks! Really like the simplicity.
by iammjm
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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
by lavaman131
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This is nice. I like that it treats breathing like a small terminal ritual instead of turning it into a whole wellness app.
by mindhash
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Going to try this. I have a breathing clock gif as default page on my browser. I use it while I am passive in meetings.
Resonant breathing has been great for me for IBS
by darcien
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This reminds me of another HRV training from few years back shared here.
Very cool project. Is this similar to the Apple Watch ‘mindful minutes’ breathing feature? I assume it’s based on the same research as is cited in this project’s repo?
by leotryhard
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0 deps + afplay combo is the right move for this. Was wondering why not AVAudioPlayer until I saw the cycle lengths, overkill for 8s tempo.
by Ruslan1095
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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.
by mark_l_watson
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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.
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