What are the timing counts for the Navy SEAL breathing method described?

Robert TaFounder & CEO, Clarity · Building Hyper-Personalized Agents

You can't think your way calm. But you can breathe your way there.

12 Oct 2025

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Robert Ta walks through the Navy SEAL breathing method: inhale for four seconds, hold for seven, exhale for eight with pressure. It lowers heart rate and reduces adrenaline and cortisol. Do it before bed to sleep better.

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Inhale 4 seconds (through nose), hold 7 seconds, exhale 8 seconds (through mouth) with accelerating pressure on the exhale.

Are you feeling? Nervous? Anxious? Unsettled? Uncertain? Try this. Try intentional breathing. The Navy SEAL method. Four seconds in through the nose. Seven seconds hold. Eight seconds out through the mouth. Accelerating the pressure you put on the breath out as you get to second eight. Let's do it together. Four seconds. Do that. Lower your wrestling heart rate. Reduces the accumulation and rush of adrenaline cortisol in the system in stressful moments. Do this before bed. This has been a life hack for me to get to sleep. Better take care, get after it.