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4-7-8 Breathing Exercise

Practice the 4-7-8 breathing technique: inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 7 seconds, exhale for 8 seconds. Natural tranquilizer for the nervous system.

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/breathing-4-7-8' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"cycles":4,"inhaleSeconds":4,"holdSeconds":7,"exhaleSeconds":8,"soundEnabled":true}'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/breathing-4-7-8

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
cycles	number	No	Number of complete 4-7-8 breathing cycles to practice
inhaleSeconds	number	No	Duration of inhalation phase (default: 4 seconds)
holdSeconds	number	No	Duration of breath-holding phase (default: 7 seconds)
exhaleSeconds	number	No	Duration of exhalation phase (default: 8 seconds)
soundEnabled	checkbox	No

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-breathing-4-7-8": {
      "name": "breathing-4-7-8",
      "description": "Practice the 4-7-8 breathing technique: inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 7 seconds, exhale for 8 seconds. Natural tranquilizer for the nervous system.",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=breathing-4-7-8",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "breathing-4-7-8",
    "arguments": {
  "cycles": 4,
  "inhaleSeconds": 4,
  "holdSeconds": 7,
  "exhaleSeconds": 8,
  "soundEnabled": true
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

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