1145 Calming Breath to Reduce Stress
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Calm your mind and body with this soothing breathing technique.
This is part 3 of a 7-Part Reframe Stress Meditation series Episodes 1143-1149.
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 1,145. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | How are you doing? |
| 0:10.0 | We continue along with our series on reframing the way you think about stress. |
| 0:18.0 | This is a seven-part series so you're exploring a different meditation technique in each episode as a way to help you think differently |
| 0:29.8 | about how you manage stress in your life. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm Mary Meckley and I share a different meditation technique |
| 0:38.6 | every day here on the podcast. |
| 0:41.8 | And each technique is customized around a theme we explore in depth for a full week. |
| 0:48.8 | So as you reframe the way you think about stress today, I want to share with you some |
| 0:57.5 | different ways that many people exhibit stress, and this may include you and I want to share this |
| 1:06.4 | with you because you may not think of these different habits or quirks as revealing that you're managing stress with some possibly unhealthy habits. |
| 1:27.8 | And this is what I'm sharing with you from the Help Guide.org |
| 1:34.0 | and it's a trusted guide to mental and emotional health |
| 1:39.0 | and this is an article |
| 1:41.0 | Stress Management using self-help techniques for dealing with stress. |
| 1:48.2 | And this is from the author's Lawrence Robinson, Melinda Smith, and Robert Siegel. And here are some identifiers |
| 2:00.1 | that could mean you're not coping with stress so well. |
| 2:06.3 | And of course, you may automatically think of smoking |
| 2:11.4 | or taking pills or drugs to relax or maybe drinking too much alcohol as ways to |
| 2:18.9 | manage stress. Well you may not have thought of these ways of coping with stress and that it would be |
| 2:29.4 | withdrawing from your friends and your family and activities that you usually enjoy doing. |
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