• Breathe in slowly through your nose as the picture opens.
• Hold gently while it shimmers (the gentle pace skips this).
• Let a long, slow dragon breath out as it closes again.
• Repeat for as long as the session runs, then rest a moment.

Set in Settings, so the breathing screen stays simple. Every pace breathes out for longer than it breathes in — the long breath out is what tells your body it is safe to slow down.

• Gentle — in 2, out 3, no hold. For when you're really wound up and long breaths feel too hard.
• Medium — in 3, hold 1, out 4. A steady middle pace.
• Slow — in 4, hold 2, out 6. About five breaths a minute: the deepest calm-down.
• Wind down — starts Gentle and slows itself to Slow, breath by breath, the way a worked-up body really settles.

Pick the one you like in Settings. Whichever you choose changes a little with every breath and the neon drifts around the colour wheel. There is nothing to tap and nothing to get right: just follow the shape and let your breath match it.

• Vortex — a neon coil that unwinds into a new shape each breath.
• Bloom — petals opening and folding back.
• Orb — one soft ball and its ripples. The quietest, if the others feel like too much.
• Rays — a star whose beams reach out and draw back in.
• Waves — bands of colour that roll like water and swell apart as you breathe in.
• Aurora — soft clouds of colour drifting through each other. Nothing sharp anywhere.
• Spiral — one long ribbon winding out and coiling back in.

Turn on vibration in Settings and the phone paces the breath for you: soft taps swell as you breathe in, a tick marks the hold, and one cue starts the breath out — so it works with your eyes closed. Android phones only; iPhones don't allow vibration in the browser.

Pick one, three or five minutes on the breathing screen, or set the length a session starts on in Settings. Start with a minute and go longer when you need it.

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If the picture isn't moving on this phone, read these five lines out and they'll say why.