Box Breathing Timer
6 rounds · 4-4-4-4 — a real, working breathing timer right in your browser. Big color-coded phases, beeps, and the screen stays awake. Free, no sign-up.
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Next: Inhale · 0:04
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How it works
The Box Breathing protocol
Box breathing (the Navy SEAL method): four seconds in, four hold, four out, four hold — a perfect square. Six rounds here to steady the nervous system.
- Inhale for 4
- Hold for 4
- Exhale for 4
- Hold for 4 — then repeat for 6 rounds
Each side
4s
Pattern
4-4-4-4
Rounds
6
Total
~1.5 min
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