991 Soothing Breathing Technique
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
A soothing breathing technique to calm your mind and body.
This is part 3 of a 7-Part Good Habits to Live Your Life By Meditation series, Episodes 989-995.
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 a episode 991. Welcome to your daily meditation podcast. I am excited to share today's episode with you. It is a breathing technique. |
| 0:15.6 | Breathing techniques are one of the fastest ways to instantly calm your mind and your body. |
| 0:28.6 | Your breath is connected with the kind of state you're in. So as soon as you calm your |
| 0:35.0 | nervous system, calm down as well. |
| 0:38.0 | So this is part, three of our seven part |
| 0:42.0 | meditation series this week, where we're focusing on good habits you need. |
| 0:48.0 | And one of the reasons I wanted to share this breathing technique with you today is because it's a breathing technique |
| 0:55.0 | that's really easy to remember and I know that for myself |
| 0:59.0 | when I'm stressed and in that moment when I need a breathing technique to calm myself |
| 1:06.3 | Sometimes I think what was that count to was an inhale for eight and then exhale for 12 I kind of forget those counts and you might be the same way. |
| 1:16.8 | So today's breathing technique is a technique that you can easily remember. |
| 1:22.3 | And so I encourage you to try it out as you get ready to sit down and |
| 1:26.2 | meditate or as you go about your day you can do this breathing technique. I'll share with you a way I like to use |
| 1:34.6 | this breathing technique just to show you how very versatile it is. I like to do this |
| 1:40.3 | breathing technique when I'm walking, especially if I'm a little stressed when I walk. |
| 1:44.9 | And so how I do that is once I share the technique with you, you'll understand it very |
| 1:51.5 | easily how I do it. but what I do is I just |
| 1:54.6 | inhale and exhale doing this technique as I walk. So I'm Mary Meckley and I share a different meditation technique every day on the |
| 2:06.0 | podcast. Each technique is customized around a weekly theme so you get to explore |
| 2:11.0 | a particular topic in depth. |
| 2:14.4 | So if you're just joining us, |
| 2:16.0 | don't feel like you've missed anything. |
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