Five Slow Breaths Before You Reply

12 min

A short practice for the charged pause after a message arrives, when the reply is already forming before the body has caught up. Five slow breaths create room to reread the words, notice the heat in the jaw, throat or shoulders, and choose the response that still sounds like you.

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Becky Lane
Your storyteller
Becky Lane
Soft, warm, unhurried

Warm and clear, with an unhurried steadiness — a voice that settles a busy mind without ever rushing it.

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About this session

Five Slow Breaths Before You Reply is a guided audio session from Salūs Rooms — part of the calm focus collection, narrated by Becky Lane.

Salūs Rooms is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS, Android and web — hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial.

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