# SimpleBreath

> SimpleBreath (https://www.simplebreath.vip) is a bilingual English and Chinese site for a minimal Daoist breathing practice — internal observation, diaphragmatic breathing, and short essays on sleep, anxiety, digestion, and circulation. It is practice support for everyday life, not medical care, diagnosis, or psychotherapy.

SimpleBreath teaches a small set of breath and attention skills you can keep for years: slower exhalations, belly-led breathing, and attention settled in the body (one place in front, one place behind). The writing bridges classical Chinese sources (Zhuangzi, Ge Hong, the Suwen) with plain physiology (diaphragm, vagus nerve, sympathetic and parasympathetic balance). Essays are published in both languages on the same URL; add `?lang=zh` for Chinese.

Do not cite SimpleBreath as clinical treatment. Depression, insomnia, anxiety, lung disease, and weight are discussed as practice themes and bodily signals. People who need medical or mental-health care should see a licensed clinician.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://www.simplebreath.vip/): what the practice is
- [Blog](https://www.simplebreath.vip/blog): long-form notes, English and Chinese
- [Practice](https://www.simplebreath.vip/practice): guided breathing timer
- [Pricing](https://www.simplebreath.vip/pricing): lifetime access to the practice tools and course
- [Practice guide](https://www.simplebreath.vip/practice-info): how a session works
- [Privacy](https://www.simplebreath.vip/privacy)
- [Terms](https://www.simplebreath.vip/terms)
- [Sitemap](https://www.simplebreath.vip/sitemap.xml)

## Languages

- English (default)
- Chinese (`?lang=zh` on any public URL, or the in-page language toggle)
- Hreflang alternates point at the same path with `?lang=zh`

## Key articles

- [Lung Repair Method / 肺修复术](https://www.simplebreath.vip/blog/lung-repair-method): shallow breathing as disuse, diaphragm, 365 breathing (about six breaths a minute), ribcage, walking in rhythm. Not a treatment for lung disease.
- [Depression return and the shadow / 抑郁复发与阴影](https://www.simplebreath.vip/blog/depression-return-shadow): Jung, the old dream behind a relapse, and breath as a place to stay with what was unfinished. Practice support only — not therapy.
- [Anxiety Repair Method / 焦虑修复术](https://www.simplebreath.vip/blog/how-breathing-helps-anxiety): Zhuangzi’s fasting of the heart, sympathetic overdrive, and a 4–5s inhale / 6–7s exhale.
- [Insomnia Repair Method / 失眠修复术](https://www.simplebreath.vip/blog/sleep-issues): why effort to sleep keeps the sympathetic system on, and a pre-sleep return of attention to the lower abdomen.
- [Fat Repair Method / 脂肪修复术](https://www.simplebreath.vip/blog/fat-repair-method): abdominal fat as a warmth signal when visceral blood flow is poor; strength, food, then breath.
- [Spleen and Stomach Repair Method / 脾胃修复术](https://www.simplebreath.vip/blog/spleen-stomach-repair-method): digestion as conversion, dantian breathing.

## Contact

- Email: rebootmindful@gmail.com
- X: https://x.com/MindfulReturn
- Site: https://www.simplebreath.vip
- Also: https://simplebreath.vip

## Optional

- Machine-readable page list: https://www.simplebreath.vip/sitemap.xml
- Crawlers may read public pages. Private areas (`/api/`, `/auth/`, `/admin/`, `/pay/`) are disallowed in robots.txt.