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The companion text · Mindful Breath™

Mindful Breath

Luis Miguel Gallardo · World Happiness Press

Breathing serves gas exchange, not a calmness score. Effort, depth, equipment and health can affect breathing. Reducing ventilation to save gas can allow carbon dioxide to accumulate. Learn efficient movement and buoyancy with your instructor; never ration breaths.

Education, never therapy. Every practice fits inside your agency standards and dive plan; no breath-holds, no hyperventilation.

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Mindful Breath in three minutes

2:48Mindful Breath in Three Minutes — breathing before, below, between and beyond the dive

The ideas in five slides

Mindful Breath · 1 / 5. Six breaths a minute. Five minutes a day. The best-evidenced practice in the book.The rhythm. Five seconds in, five seconds out. At about six breaths a minute, breath and heart fall into step and heart-rate variability rises.How. Before the dive — or the board meeting.Behind the book. 138 studies reviewed. A literature review of breathwork published by the Mindful Diving Institute's Research Lab. doi.org/10.68220/mdi.2026.004.Book 2 · Mindful Diving Institute Library. Mindful Breath.

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The First Dive Is a Breath

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