1096 Breathing Technique to Sleep Better
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Sleep better with a soothing breathing technique
This is part 3 of a 7-Part Sunset Meditation Series, Episodes 1094-1100.
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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*a Free Instant Calm Breathing Technique
*a Free Guide to Get Started Meditating.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,096. |
| 0:03.2 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.5 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:10.2 | I want to welcome you to the third part of this series we're doing on sunset meditations to help you sleep better. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I share a different meditation technique every |
| 0:26.0 | day on the podcast. Each technique is customized around a theme we explore for a full week. |
| 0:35.0 | And this being part three of our series, |
| 0:39.0 | I want to guide you through a breathing technique to help you sleep better. |
| 0:46.1 | This is a technique that will help you fall asleep and stay asleep. |
| 0:51.7 | So if you have trouble staying asleep, maybe you wake up in the middle of the night, |
| 0:55.3 | this is a technique you can do to get back to sleep. So the technique is very simple and easy to do and all it requires is focus. In fact, focus is really the best thing to help you fall asleep. |
| 1:17.3 | As you've gone throughout your day |
| 1:19.2 | and the different distractions and stress and dramas that happened these are usually |
| 1:27.0 | foremost on your mind and so that's the beauty of a sleep ritual. |
| 1:33.8 | When you have a ritual that you do |
| 1:37.7 | one to two hours before you go to bed at night, |
| 1:41.8 | you allow yourself to unwind from these thoughts, from your focus |
| 1:47.5 | throughout the day, and it allows you to focus on easing into your evening. |
| 1:55.0 | So all these things you do, such as lighting a candle maybe, |
| 1:59.5 | or taking a bath or doing yoga stretches or writing in a journal. |
| 2:06.5 | All these different things help you to mentally and physically prepare to embrace sleep. |
| 2:18.2 | And that's another focus. |
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