How to Record Your Breathing-Practice Sessions

Can I track breathing-practice sessions without a detailed diary?

Use the practice and instructions that are appropriate for you, then let the calendar remember the date. You do not need a detailed report for an ordinary personal routine. Breathing Practice can sit alongside Journalling or Mindfulness if you want separate records of those activities.

How could a calendar for breathing-practice sessions work in everyday life?

After a session on Tuesday, open Breathing Practice and mark Tuesday. Add another X after your next completed session. The calendar can show the days together while the resource you use holds the actual practice instructions.

How do I use X Calendar to record breathing-practice sessions?

A Breathing Practice calendar can keep this record separate from other activities in X Calendar. Once it is created, you can open it and mark another completed date without writing out the same entry each time.

For Breathing Practice, the useful entry is the real date when you finish your breathing-practice session. Marking it soon afterwards can make it easier to remember. If you return to the app later, use that actual date rather than a planned one. You can then look at the calendar knowing the marks describe completed occasions, without needing a written account of everything that happened around them.

• Create a calendar called Breathing Practice.
• After you finish your breathing-practice session, tap that date to add an X.
• Open Breathing Practice whenever you want to see the dates you have marked.

What can I see when I look back at breathing-practice sessions?

Over a few weeks, the marked dates give you a reminder of when you made time for the practice. You can look back without trying to remember each morning or evening. If the activity is part of treatment, keep any required treatment record separately and follow the guidance you were given.

If breathing practice is one of several activities you want to remember, give it its own calendar rather than a general Wellbeing Done mark. You might practise on Tuesday and journal on Thursday. Separate names keep those dates clear. You can look at the activity you care about without having to remember which kind of practice a shared mark represented.

The calendar records completed dates; it does not guide the breathing technique or replace treatment instructions.