"Breathing affects your respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal, muscular, and psychic systems, and also has a general effect on your sleep, memory, ability to concentrate, and your energy levels." ~ Donna Farhi
Easy, effective, and affordable mental health care is finally here.
Our patented Breathing Light is a dynamic shadow lamp that serves as a visual aid for mindful breathing practices, surrounding a user with beautiful light patterns that rise and fall at ideal breathing rates, actively or passively influencing a viewer’s own breathing to slow and deepen.
Science has proven that mindful breathing can cause physiological changes including:
💡 Increased feelings of calm & well-being
💡 Reduced levels of stress hormones
💡 Lowered blood pressure & heart rate
💡 Improved immune system function
💡 Increased energy
Studies also show that these vivid oscillating cues can have passive influence on a viewer, as they subconsciously synchronize their breathing with the subtle surrounding rhythm.
This allows the Breathing Light to be used passively in the background of your attention, freeing you to relax and live your best life.
In other words, we offer easy, effective, beautiful, scientifically-validated, non-medication stress and anxiety relief with lasting positive effect, at your home, on your schedule, that doesn’t require you to be on yet another screen.
We make breathing easy, easy!
How does it work?
The Breathing Light's patented effect is simple, but unique!
The internal light source projects light through the shade, creating a light pattern on the walls around you. Then as the light source oscillates up and down at an ideal breathing rate (4 seconds in, and 6 seconds out, for 6 cycles per minute) the light patterns also oscillate, surrounding you with soothing moving cues.
These beautiful cues are easy to synchronize your own breathing to, through active breathwork practices or passively as they gently rise and fall in the background of your daily life.
Be one of the first to join the revolution in self-care and pre-order your Breathing Light today!
Fact #1: Chronic stress & anxiety are harmful
"Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults (19.1% of the population) age 18 and older every year."
"Anxiety disorders are highly treatable, yet only 36.9% of those suffering receive treatment."
"Anxiety Disorders - Facts & Statistics" - Anxiety & Depression Association of America
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“Healthcare expenditures are nearly 50% greater for workers who report high levels of stress.”
Fact #2: Breathing calms you down
"A sequence of specific breathing techniques [...] can alleviate anxiety, depression, everyday stress, post-traumatic stress, and stress-related medical illnesses."
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"Psychological/behavioral outputs related to the above-mentioned changes are increased comfort, relaxation, pleasantness, vigor and alertness, and reduced symptoms of arousal, anxiety, depression, anger, and confusion."
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"Controlled breathing emerges as an easily accessible tool for emotional, cognitive, and physiological regulation."
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"A range of breathwork interventions yielded significant improvements in anxiety symptoms in patients clinically diagnosed with anxiety disorders."
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"This study provided evidence demonstrating the effect of diaphragmatic breathing, a mind-body practice, on mental function, from a health psychology approach, which has important implications for health promotion in healthy individuals."
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"Breathing in 5-second cycles can significantly reduce EDA values and heart rate in people experiencing extreme emotions, thereby reducing tension."
Fact #3: ...and does a lot more too!
"Breath affects your sleep, your back, your digestion, your memory, anxiety; all these different things. It affects parts of our body that you'd never even consider, like your esophagus and your pelvic floor." ~ Dr. Belisa Vranich
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"This manipulation produced significant emotional feeling states that were differentiated according to the type of breathing pattern."
"Respiratory feedback in the generation of emotion." - ResearchGate
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"These intricate links between respiration and cognitive processes call for mechanistic studies of the role of rhythmic breathing as a timing signal for brain activity."
Fact #4: Mindful breathing works better than just meditation
"We discovered that deliberate breathwork practices done for about five minutes per day across the course of about a month led to greater reductions in stress than did a five minute a day meditation practice." ~ Dr. Andrew Huberman
"How to Breathe Correctly for Optimal Health, Mood, Learning & Performance " - Huberman Lab
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"In two recently published studies, we explored several different techniques and found that a breathing exercise was most effective for both immediate and long-term stress reduction."
"Research: Why Breathing Is So Effective at Reducing Stress." - Harvard Business Review
Fact #5: Longer exhales activate your relaxation response
"We show that breathwork, especially the exhale-focused cyclic sighing, produces greater improvement in mood and reduction in respiratory rate compared with mindfulness meditation."
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“This study showed that moderately prolonged expiration results in parasympathetic dominance.”
"The relaxation effect of prolonged expiratory breathing." - National Library of Medicine
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“Participants reported increased relaxation, stress reduction, mindfulness and positive energy when breathing with the low compared to the high i/e [inhalation/exhalation] ratio.”
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“These empirical and theoretical data suggest that influencing vagal outflows by means of DSB [deep and slow breathing, low inhale/exhale ratio] is an efficient way to reduce anxiety level.”
Fact #6: Moving visual cues work better
"Recent studies have demonstrated that, as opposed to static visual stimuli, visual rhythms derived from apparent motion of an object or effector [...] have a greater potential to induce a beat and to engage the observers rhythmically."
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"Results indicate that beat perception can occur in the visual modality and improve performance on a temporal discrimination task, when certain types of stimuli are used."
"See what I hear? Beat perception in auditory and visual rhythms." - National Library of Medicine
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"Our study provides compelling evidence that repetitive visual exposure optimizes sensory processing in primary visual cortex, resulting in a better readout of stimulus-specific information."
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"In the visual modality, a continuously moving target can be more clearly encoded due to its spatiotemporal dynamics."
Fact #7: You can passively sync to subtle visual cues
"External cue appears to affect one’s behavior without conscious perception."
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"Results suggest that a frequently presented feature sensitizes the visual system merely owing to its frequency, not its relevance or salience."
"Perceptual learning without perception." - National Library of Medicine
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"These results indicate that when attentional influence is limited, lower-level motion processing is more receptive to long-term modification than higher-level motion processing in the visual cortex."
The Timeline
Revolution is no small feat — it's an expensive and detailed process.
We're already 2 years into the process of developing, patenting, designing, prototyping, and perfecting the Breathing Light.
Now, we're ready to take the next step: getting it into production — and that's where we need your support. If this project is successfully funded, we expect this first batch of Breathing Lights to be ready for shipping by October 2025.
We will also send occasional emails to all pre-order purchasers with updated timeline projections, as well as announcements and other special offers!