Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I honor you for giving yourself this time to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. Today's meditation just may be the best thing you do for yourself all day.

I'm Mary Meckley and in today's episode I'm going to share a breathing technique you can do when you're feeling stressed

anxious when you feel like you're having a panic attack

and when you're feeling sad, and we are continuing along with our series on personality traits that help you to be happy and well, physically, emotionally, and mentally.

In yesterday's episode, you discovered how the trait of openness helps you to be happier and to get more out of life.

These are the big five traits psychologists have determined

contribute to a personality that will help you to manage stresses so that you are happier and have better total wellness.

So the technique for today, the breathing technique, is going to help you with the personality trait of neuroticism and the psychologists determined that people who are low in tendencies that contribute to neuroticism have much better emotional

resilience. So if you are high in neuroticism, you tend to experience a lot of stress over many different things that come your way and you may worry about many different things as well.

You have a tendency to get upset pretty easily and you can also experience dramatic shifts in your mood, and you feel anxious. If you are identifying with a lot of these characteristics that are attributed to

neuroticismicism don't lose hope because in today's technique that I'll be sharing with you that you can do right this moment as you meditate.

Know that when you manage your breath, you can manage your state.

So you can shift out of an emotional state that is high in neuroticism by managing your breath.

Your breath is powerful and as you do the technique today you may begin to notice yourself calm, your mind and body within a relatively short amount of time.

So when you do this, when you become calmer, you'll notice your emotional state and your breath are

inextricably linked. So this can lead you to a state where you have low

neuroticism, where you feel more emotionally stable, where you're better able to manage

your stress, where you rarely feel sad or depressed, you don't worry so much,

and you feel much more relaxed.

So if this appeals to you,

then here is a breathing technique that is simple and you can do it right this moment.

You'll inhale and exhale through your nose.

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