Breathing Technique to Improve Your Health

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

One of the best ways to improve your level of stress is by improving the way you breathe. How you breathe does make a big difference in how you manage your emotional health. This week we launch into a series designed to improve your emotional and physical health by improving your lung capacity. You'll be guided using a different breathing technique every day. Think of this week's series are your personal Breathing Bootcamp. If you suffer from asthma or COPD, or if you are recovering from COVID19 Coronavirus, this week's breathing techniques may be especially beneficial for you. (As always, with any meditation technique, you want to make sure to check with your medical doctor). THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Practice the breathing exercises every day for a few minutes and eventually build up to doing them for 5-10 minutes a day. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I am." Breathing - Belly Breath Mudra - Push Paputa - release fear Chakra - 3rd - zest for life Herb - Lobelia - lung health Yoga Asana - Vrikasana - Tree Pose

This is part 7 of a 7-part Breathing Workshop for Emotional + Physical Health, episodes 1038-1044.

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,044 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:06.0	How are you doing today?
0:08.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to the final episode of our series. We've been able to apply these techniques
0:27.3	as you go throughout your day and I hope you'll bring them into your weekend.
0:33.0	I'm recording this episode for a Saturday
0:38.1	and whenever you listen to it, it's all good.
0:41.9	But in this episode, I am going to share with you your final
0:45.9	breathing technique and this has you stepping outside and breathing the fresh air. There are many immunity enhancing properties
1:01.4	you inhale when you spend time especially among tall treed forests.
1:10.7	In fact, there was a study conducted in Japan, and this has to do with their art of forest
1:20.0	bathing where you spend time in these green spaces.
1:26.4	So from 2004 to 2012, Japanese officials spent about $4 million studying the physiological and psychological impact of spending time among tall green trees.
1:47.0	And they designated 48 therapy trails based on the results of this study. I'm sharing this
1:56.7	with you from courts.com. This is from an article titled, The Japanese Practice of Forest Bathing is
2:08.0	scientifically proven to improve your health. This is an article by Efrat Livni. And this article shares all about
2:19.8	forest bathing. And I thought it was interesting how seriously it has been studied.
2:27.0	And Ching Lee, a professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo measured the activity of human natural killer in
2:39.7	K cells in the immune system before and after exposure to the woods.
2:46.0	These cells provide rapid responses to viral infected cells
2:52.0	and respond to tumor formation.
2:56.4	They are associated with immune health
2:59.8	and cancer prevention. So in this 2009 study, Lee's subjects showed pretty
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