Breathing for Focus

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Behappy, Mental Health, Meditation, Anxiety, Sleep, Mindfulness, Alternative Health, Guidedmeditation, Health & Fitness, Focus

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Embark on Day 3 of a week long journey to manage depression. This is part 3 of a 7-part Manage Anxiety Meditation Series, episodes 1746-1752. Give our new sip and om app a test drive for 1-week free. Receive access to 1,900+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from 300+ series to fit your mood with a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each theme. Brand new themes are introduced each week with brand new meditations offered daily. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers.

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sip-and-om/id1216664612?platform=iphone&preserveScrollPosition=true#platform/iphone

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sipandom.sipandom

All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected].

Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,748.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:08.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for being here,
0:12.0	giving yourself a little more peace energy and clarity in today's
0:19.8	episode you are going to discover a breathing technique that will help you focus your
0:29.3	thoughts and focusing your thoughts can make a big difference when you feel depressed.
0:40.0	And our theme for this week is managing depression.
0:47.0	And whether you yourself experienced depression or a loved one you know is struggling with this
1:00.8	often debilitating type of mental condition.
1:06.1	Know that the more you understand what your brain is doing when you feel depressed, the better able you are to manage your depression and the better able you are also to understand what is going on when someone feels depressed.
1:30.0	And breathing techniques are one of the fastest ways to calm your mind and body
1:37.9	instantly. So I want to share with you an article from the Harvard Health Medical School and this is an
1:48.7	article titled how meditation helps with depression, how a
1:54.0	regular practice can help your brain better manage stress and anxiety
2:00.0	that can trigger depression.
2:02.0	This is a pretty recent article. It was published in August of 2018 and it shares information from Dr. John W Denninger, who is director of research at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine
2:28.7	at Harvard Affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.
2:35.4	And he talks about how stress and anxiety are the major triggers of depression.
2:47.0	So in yesterday's episode, I shared with you
2:50.6	how when you experience depression, undoubtedly you also experience another
2:59.2	mental condition such as stress anxiety or other mental conditions and meditation helps to
3:10.9	alter your reaction to helps to
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