The short-term practice of slow breathing helps us resist distractions and impulses, improves our working memory, and enhances our cognitive flexibility. This means slow breathing enables you to plan, monitor, and execute your goals.
HRVB (and, hence, slow breathing) is a powerful adjunctive therapy for managing a wide variety of chronic diseases. To be effective, it should be practiced for a minimum of 10 min/day (but probably 20+ for best results—see next section). More broadly, this study supports using slow breathing at around 5-6 breaths per minute in people with chronic diseases.