A little space for yourself
Meditation timer
A quiet place to sit. Just a timer, a gentle bell, and room to be.
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Whenever you’re ready
5:00
Wake lock is released when you pause or finish.
A little written guidance
Let your breathing find its own rhythm. Notice one inhale and one exhale. When attention wanders, gently return. Wandering is part of sitting.
Stop if you feel dizzy or uncomfortable. Breathe normally again. No breath-hold challenges. This is not treatment.
Once this page has loaded, the pacer, timer and bells work offline in this tab. Reloading or opening another page needs a connection.
The timer uses elapsed time. Background tabs can delay sounds; keep the tab visible for cues.
Your session log
Notes and daily logs stay on this browser. Clear them whenever you like. No goals, streaks or share prompts.
No sessions saved. There is nothing to catch up on.
A little evidence. Some limits.
Goyal and colleagues (2014) reviewed 47 randomised trials with 3,515 people. They found moderate evidence for reduced anxiety (effect size 0.38 at eight weeks) and depression (0.30), but low or insufficient evidence for attention, sleep and positive mood. These were programmes, not a test of this timer.
Goyal et al., JAMA Internal Medicine (2014)In one month-long trial, Balban and colleagues (2023) found that five minutes a day of cyclic sighing improved positive mood more than mindfulness meditation. There was no significant change in heart-rate variability or trait anxiety. One trial is a reason for curiosity, not a promise.
Balban et al., Cell Reports Medicine (2023)Keep it as a habit in Helibrain
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