Jake Burhans teaches box breathing: inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4. Longer exhales like 6 to 8 seconds activate your parasympathetic nervous system and can unlock creative thinking.
Breathing in, maybe you breathe in for a count of 4 and you hold for a count of 4, and then you breathe out for a count of 6 to 8 maybe, and then hold. I mean, even just doing box breathing, which is 4 seconds in, 4 seconds hold, 4 seconds down, 4 seconds hold, even this, just those, that box right there, that inherently will slow your breath down. Furthermore, if you have a longer exhale than you do have an inhale, it's literally gonna kick you down into your parasympathetic state and turn back on your creativity and everything will be easier.
