Feel better fast: Use your Galaxy Watch 8 for breathing exercises

Feeling stressed, tense, or need a quick mental reset? Samsung Galaxy Watches can help you improve your mood and lower stress levels through simple, controlled breathing techniques. You can use your Galaxy Watch 8 to guide you through the process and reap health benefits without much effort. Here is all you need to know.

First, here is why breathing exercises are important. Breathing is something everyone does every moment of the day and night. It is a function controlled by the autonomic nervous system, so we rarely ever think about it. Even so, breathing has a direct impact on our mood and stress levels, and controlled breathing techniques can help us feel better, lower blood pressure, and reduce stress hormones.

In other words, controlled breathing exercises have numerous benefits without any downsides. So, why don't we do them more often? Here are a couple of potential reasons.

Samsung's Galaxy Watches can help with both. Your new Galaxy Watch 8 can guide you through short breathing exercises that improve your mood and lower stress levels. Although these exercises don't take more than a minute or so, they can deliver great health benefits.

First, you'll need to set up a Breathing Exercises tile. This is a new Samsung Health tile available on the One UI 8 Watch update, which runs out-of-the-box on the Galaxy Watch 8, Galaxy Watch 8 Classic, and 2025 Galaxy Watch Ultra.

You can also pair the breathing exercises tile with a mood or stress level tile and monitor your progress.

All you need to do now is remember to breathe. Your Galaxy Watch 8 will help you practice controlled breathing whenever you're ready, and you'll never have to look up a guide again.

NOTE: If you own an older Galaxy Watch that doesn't yet have One UI 8 Watch, you can access breathing exercises directly from the Stress tile.