What is Formula.life?

A conscious breathing method for a mind that won’t switch off. You breathe in seven groups of seven — forty-nine breaths — while counting and carrying a quiet syllable, so your attention has a job to do and racing thoughts have no room to run. It’s free to learn and practise.

People whose minds won’t switch off — overthinkers, high performers, and many people with ADHD or an OCD-type mind who can’t stop the loops or the mental noise. Feodor built it living with his own ADHD and OCD, so it’s shaped for exactly that kind of mind. It isn’t a treatment and doesn’t replace care — if you’re doing therapy such as ERP for OCD, keep it, and let this sit alongside it.

Instead of fighting a thought, it gives your attention a structured task — breath, count, inner sound, body sense and keeping your place — all timed to the breath. Holding several of these at once leaves little capacity for a worry to build into a story. You can’t think your way out of a loop, so you change the task instead.

Is it the same as meditation?

No. Most meditation asks you to sit quietly and watch your thoughts. For a busy mind that open space often gets louder, not calmer. Formula does the opposite — it hands the mind an active, structured job. That’s why it often works for people who say they can’t meditate.

Yes. The practice is free to learn and do, and always will be. The paid options are live one-to-one sessions with Feodor, for people who want to go further.

Can it help with anxiety, ADHD or overthinking?

Many people with ADHD, an OCD-type mind, anxiety or relentless overthinking find it genuinely helps — Feodor created it living with his own ADHD and OCD. That’s lived and reported experience, not a medical claim: it’s a breathing and attention practice, not a treatment or cure. If you’re in treatment, keep it — this sits alongside care, it doesn’t replace it.

How long does it take, and do I need anything?

A few minutes. The full practice is forty-nine breaths, and you need nothing but yourself — you can learn it free here and eventually do it anywhere, with just your own breath.

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Over years of my own practice, I found variations of the formula I’ve never put anywhere — not in the courses, not on the site. One to fall asleep fast. One for a strange, paradoxical kind of creative thinking. One you run in complete inner silence. And one you sing.

I can’t hand you a shortcut — you still have to breathe, and that takes time. But for some people, one of these opens a door the classic practice hadn’t yet. Years of searching, saved.

If Formula.life has helped you, you can support it — and I’ll send you all of them, laid out beautifully, as a thank-you. Whatever you give goes straight back into this: more free tools, more of this work, for anyone trying to quiet their mind and come home to themselves.

May you find inner silence, command over your thoughts, and deep focus — while staying relaxed enough to enjoy your life. And thank you. — Feodor

Everything you give goes back into the work: more free tools, more writing, more of this — so anyone with a mind that won’t quiet down can find their way back to themselves. If it’s helped you, help me carry it further.

New · Holdfire, the breath-hold practice →

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Formula.life is free, and it stays free. If it has helped you, a small gift keeps it alive — and as a thank-you I’ll send you the six Advanced Formulas: for deep sleep, for paradoxical thinking, and four I’ve never written down anywhere else — plus Holdfire Part II, the advanced breath-hold programme.

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— Feodor