1043 Calming Breath + Lobelia Tea
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Give yourself a calming breath by tapping into the lower part of your lungs as you breath. Also discover the respiratory benefits of lobelia herb.
This is part 6Â of a 7-Part Breathing Techniques Workshop, Episodes 1038-1044.
As always, you don't have to do the meditation techniques -- they are simply there to help you transition from your busy day to a state of stillness. The techniques also help to calm "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode one thousand forty three |
| 0:04.3 | welcome to your daily meditation podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are, |
| 0:21.0 | you at your finest. and in today's episode you're going to be guided using a |
| 0:27.8 | calming breathing technique this week theme, we always explore a different theme every week. |
| 0:37.0 | Well, your theme for this week has been breathing techniques all week long. |
| 0:42.0 | So it's like a breathing technique workshop and so you've |
| 0:47.0 | explored techniques to help you focus, to help you manage anxiety, to help you energize and to breathe properly so that you can actually benefit from the breathing technique you're doing. |
| 1:06.0 | There's a particular way you breathe that allows you to fully expand your diaphragm and this is so important that I decided to focus |
| 1:18.7 | on breathing properly in today's episode. |
| 1:26.0 | And so what you're going to be doing |
| 1:28.3 | is you're going to be guided |
| 1:31.3 | breathing deeply to where you access the lower part of your lungs. Now most of the |
| 1:40.9 | time we walk around breathing shallowly, only accessing the upper part of our |
| 1:46.4 | lungs, and so I'm going to show you today having you do this right along with me how to bring your breath deep into the lower part of your lungs and in the lower part of your lungs are tiny blood vessels and when you |
| 2:08.4 | allow the oxygen to fully reach this lower lung capacity, those tiny blood vessels carry oxygen to all the |
| 2:21.7 | cells of your body. So you're going to be benefiting your health as well |
| 2:27.8 | as you're going to be benefiting your mental and emotional state. kind of state you're in. And so using a breathing technique to manage stress triggers to calm your mind and body is effective. |
| 2:50.0 | It's one of the most effective ways to change your state. So I'm Mary Meckley and I share a |
| 3:00.0 | different meditation technique every single day on the podcast. |
| 3:06.1 | And as I mentioned, each technique is always customized around a weekly theme that we explore in depth so you get to really master a |
| 3:16.7 | particular quality and the quality this week is how to breathe and how to do different breathing techniques to change your state |
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