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Study: Largest breathwork trial (n=400) found coherent breathing no better than placebo for stress and anxiety

Study: Largest breathwork trial (n=400) found coherent breathing no better than placebo for stress and anxiety — Sharing interesting research on this one. 400 people spent 4 weeks doing either coherent breathing at 5.5 breaths per minute — the rate everyone teaches — or normal paced breathing at 12 per minute. B…

r/Meditationpost4/13/2026
I will stop using ai.

The dot com bubble is a good data point, sure. I'm very familiar with all of these. Alphafold is based on the transformer - the core tech in LLMs. I'm very confident Alphafold is generative AI. The A…

r/DecidingToBeBettercomment3/15/2026
Has anyone looked into what chronic depression and trauma actually do to your body at a cellular level? The research is both terrifying and oddly empowering.

Your research is solid, and if anything you've understated it. The 2-7 years figure comes from some of the more conservative estimates. Simon et al. found telomere shortening equivalent to as much as …

r/CPTSDcomment3/23/2026
Binaural beats

Actually there is science behind binaural beats but certainly placebo could add to that. EDIT: Since there is a lot of Reddit "I'm smart-ism" happening as a result of this comment. Science is a path …

r/Meditationcomment3/28/2026
Is constantly being able to lucid dream considered uncommon?

So my theory was that a natural lucid dreamer would show less habits of mind wandering and more directive thinking throughout the day, and this habit of prefrontal activation would then more likely ca…

r/LucidDreamingcomment3/30/2026
Advice regarding Yoga Nidra

A parent is too high of a risk. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 The heritability of psychotic experiences has been estimated between 30 and 50% from twin studies.  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01203-2#:~:t…

r/Meditationcomment4/5/2026
My (24F) boyfriend (23M) is in a Psychiatric Unit for Brief Psychotic Disorder, and my family wants me to completely cut him out of my life. Is that something I should consider?

The research says that they are effective for the “majority” of people. Majority means greater than 50%. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5095813/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025…

r/relationship_advicecomment4/6/2026