1131 Gratitude Breathing Technique
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Lower blood pressure with this gratitude breathing technique.
This is part 3 of a 7-Part Gratitude for Wellness Meditation series Episodes 1129-1135.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,131. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm proud of you as you get ready to settle yourself in for a meditation. I'm going to share a |
| 0:18.0 | meditation technique with you today that involves your breath, the power of your breath. |
| 0:26.1 | Your breath can instantly calm your mind and body, and we continue with our series, which is all about gratitude. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I share a different meditation technique every day here on the podcast and each technique is |
| 0:46.9 | customized around a theme we explore for a week so you get to master particular quality in your life |
| 0:56.3 | experimenting with different meditation techniques so you can see what works for you |
| 1:01.1 | and explore how rich and dynamic meditation is. So for the breathing technique today, this is a technique to help you focus on gratitude. |
| 1:15.0 | And I did a little research on how your breath can instantly calm your mind and body. |
| 1:25.0 | And I found an article by the Harvard Health |
| 1:30.0 | publications from Harvard Medical School and the name of the article is |
| 1:35.6 | called Stress Raising Your Blood Pressure Take a Deep Breath and this is by Dr |
| 1:41.6 | Naomi D.L. Fisher and in this article she talks about how people |
| 1:49.1 | who focus on mindfulness and in the very first episode so the day before yesterday we focused |
| 1:59.8 | on mindfulness there's a mindfulness technique there waiting for you if you haven't |
| 2:06.3 | already listened to it. It's episode 1,129 and when you're focusing on the present moment, whenever you're triggered by stress, let's say that someone made you angry, maybe somebody insulted you. |
| 2:26.0 | Instead of reacting, you first pause because you're being mindful and when you pause you pause your breath |
| 2:40.1 | naturally you do this and this helps you to respond better so you would respond |
| 2:48.3 | better to that insult if you were really focusing on mindfulness. |
| 2:55.0 | And this is important because one of the main reasons why people will lash out in anger and you feel your blood pressure |
| 3:05.6 | begin to boil, it's because you don't feel safe, you feel threatened. And so if you can guide yourself back to feeling safe again, then you can |
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