Reducing Stress with BreathWrk for 30 Days - (BreathWrk App Review)
10Reducing Stress with BreathWrk for 30 Days - (BreathWrk App Review)
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I am a pretty stressed-out guy. Between work and the rest of my life's duties, I feel like I have no time to accomplish what I need to get done in a day. Literally, my to-do list is always like sixty items overdo. I have a hole in the wall I've been meaning to fix for like six months now that I just don't have time to fix. Everybody knows you must take at least three trips to Home Depot for each project, and I don't have time for that. At work, we are twenty projects deep, with the end-of-the-year deadlines coming up fast. All these things compound into a stressed-out Jack, who is very cranky and tired. I just need some time to forget everything and breath. I am in luck, as that's what Breathwrk aims to do.
[Intro]
Breathwrk is spelled like this: That's right, the O is missing on purpose. It is an app available on iPhone and Android devices. Like most apps, the basic minute-long classes are free, with the premium ones with coaches, and the challenges come at four dollars per month or thirty-nine dollars per year. The app acts as a breathing coach that forces you to make different breathing patterns to wake up in the morning, fall asleep, calm anxiety, or energize. These options are listed in the app through the yellow, Blue, Green, and Red-colored classes in that order.
With each category are two class types you can choose from. The two types are Coach taught and non-coach-taught classes. With non-coach-taught classes, you can choose pattern types, such as a circle, line, or sleeping monkey, for fun and then follow along with the breathing prompts. For example, in line one, when it goes high, you breathe in. When it goes low, you exhale and hold your breath when it stops. It changes things by going up or down at different time intervals representing how long you breathe. Coach-taught classes, on the other hand, will just play audio from a coach. From there, you inhale, breathe or hold when the coach tells you to. Sometimes the coaches will tell you to visualize things to calm you down or excite you. For example, coaches will tell you to breathe in a while imagining the sun rising to help wake you up in these classes.
When opening the app, you get recommended to complete a seven-day challenge for each category. That gives you twenty-eight days of breathing goodness. From there, you can complete your daily recommendations, which give you classes during a certain time of day. You can also change this up and do even more classes throughout the day with the discovery tab. With the challenges, you can expect to spend one to fifteen minutes within this app. After you complete them, your schedule will take you to do about twenty minutes of breathing every day.
With the basics of the app covered, it's time for me to make my goal. My overall goal was to become less stressed over the thirty days by doing Breathwrk. My secondary goal was to complete almost all of the four challenges. See, I take a few days off in my schedule to have enough time for everything I complained about at the beginning of this video. That gives me around twenty-six days for the actual thirty-day challenge. Since it takes twenty-eight days, I won't be doing the daily schedule since my time will be spent completing the challenges. And I also want some time to complete a few lessons from the discovery tab. Lastly, with all this breathing, it would be cool to see if I can increase how long I could hold my breath, so I also measured that in the app.
Below is the template for this challenge. Of course, you can visit my website and download this yourself to complete it. When starting this challenge, my stress level was an eight out of ten. It was just crazy with everything going on at work. That would put my stress level above average. I was also able to hold my breath for thirty seconds. According to a study titled "sports related to study," the average person can hold their breath for thirty to ninety seconds. That puts me at the very bottom of the average. So far, the statistics in the beginning are not looking good, so any results would be great.
That first day I began the 7 days to lower the Stress challenge since that's what I needed. From there, I worked on the seven days for better performance since I needed to increase my lung capacity and the seven days of sleep for bedtime. Lastly, The seven days energized the last challenge that I started, and I didn't complete it, or the sleep bounced between the two. The energize challenge is my favorite among the four, as it probably had my favorite coaches in that category. I want to specifically shout out Terrell Carter, who has the perfect voice and energy for this. Here I'll play a clip from a yellow class:
[TerellCarterClip.mp4: Start Clip in the begging for thirty seconds]
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