Inner peace is not the absence of difficulty—it's a nervous system state of deep calm underlying life's inevitable challenges. Coherence breathing, extended exhale work, and equal breathing cultivate this parasympathetic baseline where peace and presence naturally arise. Practiced consistently, breathing work rebuilds your resting nervous system state from activated to settled.
The physiology is straightforward: your vagal tone (the strength of your parasympathetic nervous system) determines your resting calm level. Practices that activate your vagus nerve—especially coherence breathing and resonance breathing—systematically improve your vagal tone over weeks and months. Higher vagal tone means deeper baseline peace even amid life's demands.
The most accessible path to inner peace is daily coherence breathing or resonance breathing practice. 10-15 minutes per day, consistently, rebuilds your nervous system's set point toward calm. Many practitioners report that after 4-8 weeks of daily practice, their baseline emotional state shifts—peace becomes their resting state rather than an achievement they're chasing.