1166 Breathing Technique to Reduce Insecurity
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
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🗓️ 15 August 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Breathing technique to reduce personal insecurity.
This is part 3 of a 7-Part Path to Happiness with the Ancient Stoics series Episodes 1164-1170.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1166. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I share a different meditation technique every day here on the |
| 0:17.5 | podcast and each technique is always customized around a theme we explore in depth for a full week. |
| 0:28.0 | And this allows you to master a particular quality in your life when you focus on it day in day out for a |
| 0:36.4 | full week using different techniques these are techniques you can use whether you're seated meditating or if you are right smack in the busiest part of your day. |
| 0:52.0 | That's often when we most need these techniques. |
| 0:56.6 | So they help to transition you to a place of inner peace. Well, we're exploring the theme this week of the path to happiness with some of the wisdom from the ancient Stoics and in particular I'm sharing |
| 1:18.1 | with you the Stoics Marcus Aurelius, who was a former Roman emperor, and he was highly regarded during |
| 1:30.0 | his time, and someone who was not so highly regarded always during his time and that is |
| 1:38.6 | Seneca. Seneca was a philosopher, he wrote dramas, all kinds of plays, and he also was the teacher to the infamous Nero when Nero was a child and then he advised Nero as |
| 2:01.0 | Nero grew older. And Seneca was a controversial figure because he didn't |
| 2:09.7 | necessarily walk his talk until later in his life he seemed to truly exhibit the |
| 2:21.4 | beliefs of the Stoics, which was to live more simply as a better human being. |
| 2:34.0 | Well in today's episode I'm going to guide you using a breathing technique. |
| 2:42.0 | Now your breath is one of the fastest ways to calm your mind and body instantly. With three deep long inhales and exhales through your nose, you can |
| 2:59.8 | instantly release tension in your body. |
| 3:04.4 | So the technique I have for you today layers |
| 3:09.8 | and affirmation right on top of this breathing technique and so when you use the two |
| 3:16.6 | together the affirmation and the power of your breath great things happen when you meditate. You really empower yourself and also calm your mind and |
| 3:29.5 | body as you do empower yourself. Many people don't think of meditation as empowering |
| 3:37.0 | because you may think of it as something that's more passive, |
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