For slow breathing a place and time you could use it would be when you are meditating and trying to calm yourself when you are overwhelmed, when you wake up in the morning and look at yourself in the mirror you can point out all of the positive things about yourself that you love.
Because they didn't need hin to go
The used rhetorical device is Hyperbole.
Saying that something is a billion times better is hyperbole because it is not really that much better, you would just be over exaggerating.
1 Peter 1:16
For it is written,"You shall be holy, for I am holy."
Hope this helps!!