When a craving or a wave of feeling arrives, the kindest first move is to steady the body. Stillpoint gives you two gentle tools — a guided breath, and a slow walk through your senses. Nothing to score, nothing to fix.
Tap each one as you find it. There's no wrong pace — if you lose count, just start again from five. The point isn't finishing; it's returning.
Any moment that feels too loud — before a session, during a craving, or at 2am when sleep won't come. If the ground doesn't hold, that's a signal to reach out, not a failure.
Breathing practices have a growing evidence base. The 5-4-3-2-1 sensory walk is a widely used grounding technique with less direct research of its own, so we point to studies on present-moment awareness instead. Findings are summarised honestly — effects are often modest, and none of this is medical advice.
Across 12 trials, breathwork was linked with small-to-moderate reductions in self-reported stress, anxiety and low mood compared with controls.
Five minutes a day of slow, exhale-focused breathing improved mood and lowered resting breathing rate over a month.
Slow breathing (around six breaths a minute) was associated with greater heart-rate variability, relaxation and emotional steadiness.
Paced, resonant-frequency breathing showed moderate benefits for anxiety, stress and low mood across many studies.
Present-moment awareness practices were linked with less binge and emotional eating — the same 'come back to now' skill grounding builds.