When you factor in cost (money/time), does diaphragmatic breathing demonstrate the highest cost effectiveness?
Recent meetings I’ve attended from groups such as Global Regenerative Colab and Zebras Unite have included breathing activities, possibly diaphragmatic breathing, is this something to consider including at the start of EA-related meetings?
On that second point, I’m thinking that if you spend 6 minutes (10%) of a 1-hour meeting on breathing, it could be a good use of time if the remaining 54 minutes are 11+% more effective. I have no idea how to measure meeting effectiveness and simpler actions such as having a clear purpose to the meeting or welcoming new folks might be even more effective than breathing exercises...
Yes, almost certainly given the high time investment for CBT and Sudarshan Kriya Yoga.
I’d expect that a short breathing exercise could be pretty valuable at the start of meetings for helping people to settle in and boosting attention. More anecdotally, I think practices like this can serve as a useful anchor, helping people reset their focus and creating a separation from what they were previously doing.
It seems plausible to me that a few minutes of breathwork at the start of an hour meeting could be cost-effective time-wise but I would have to look more at the wider benefits of a practice like this to better estimate the extent of the benefit.
The intention for the larger project is to assess the benefits of interventions like this across many different areas which will then hopefully provide a useful basis for estimating the total benefit they might bring to certain people/ settings/ etc.
Thank you for writing this! Two questions:
When you factor in cost (money/time), does diaphragmatic breathing demonstrate the highest cost effectiveness?
Recent meetings I’ve attended from groups such as Global Regenerative Colab and Zebras Unite have included breathing activities, possibly diaphragmatic breathing, is this something to consider including at the start of EA-related meetings?
On that second point, I’m thinking that if you spend 6 minutes (10%) of a 1-hour meeting on breathing, it could be a good use of time if the remaining 54 minutes are 11+% more effective. I have no idea how to measure meeting effectiveness and simpler actions such as having a clear purpose to the meeting or welcoming new folks might be even more effective than breathing exercises...
Thanks! Re:
Yes, almost certainly given the high time investment for CBT and Sudarshan Kriya Yoga.
I’d expect that a short breathing exercise could be pretty valuable at the start of meetings for helping people to settle in and boosting attention. More anecdotally, I think practices like this can serve as a useful anchor, helping people reset their focus and creating a separation from what they were previously doing.
It seems plausible to me that a few minutes of breathwork at the start of an hour meeting could be cost-effective time-wise but I would have to look more at the wider benefits of a practice like this to better estimate the extent of the benefit.
The intention for the larger project is to assess the benefits of interventions like this across many different areas which will then hopefully provide a useful basis for estimating the total benefit they might bring to certain people/ settings/ etc.