Breathing technique for Focus
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Be guided using a meditation technique to help you improve focus and willpower.
This is part 3 of a 7 part series on Ambition, episodes 1487-1494. Each episode in this week's series will help you begin the process of trusting yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,489. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and welcome. |
| 0:11.0 | How are you doing today? I am excited to share with you a breathing technique you can do in your meditation today. |
| 0:22.0 | This is a breathing technique that will energize you and help you to focus. |
| 0:31.4 | And this goes along with our theme this week, which is and this |
| 0:34.0 | we're all about ambition |
| 0:38.0 | and when you do this and when you do this breathing technique you will discover that when you energize your breath |
| 0:51.6 | You're able to focus, and this helps you to be able to pursue your ambitions |
| 1:01.0 | with more willpower. |
| 1:05.0 | Many people reach out to me and tell me the |
| 1:10.0 | probably number one challenge of meditators and that is how to calm your thoughts. |
| 1:19.0 | And we often think that we need to focus using our mind when we calm our thoughts. |
| 1:29.0 | But that isn't so effective when we think about something. |
| 1:35.0 | It's when we feel something that we notice the biggest transformation. |
| 1:42.0 | And so when you approach your focus through your heart, how you feel, |
| 1:50.1 | you'll find this is the key to stop distracting thoughts and to manage your emotions. |
| 2:00.0 | So when you think about going through your heart, you think of the qualities of your heart chakra, |
| 2:06.0 | and that has to do with love, gratitude, compassion, and these are some of the most powerful human emotions. |
| 2:21.0 | And so when you generate those emotions that are so powerful, they can dominate most of your thoughts. |
| 2:30.0 | And so this will calm your mind. |
| 2:35.0 | So when you sit down to meditate, think about |
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