Breathing Technique to Keep Your Brain Young

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

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

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

With all the unrest and tension going on in the world today, you may not realize that you have a secret weapon right under your nose... it's your breath. Your breath is one of your most powerful tools to manage the inevitable stress in life. Your emotional state is interconnected with your breath. One of the best ways to instantly calm your mind and body is to calm your breath. This week's series will guide you through simple, elegant breathing techniques to create a refuge of peace you can escape to during times of fear and uncertainty. This is part 5 of a 7-part Brain Health and Breathing, episodes 2047-2053. If you'd like to experience deeper, longer daily 30-minute guided meditations, I invite you to try the Sip and Om meditation app for 2-weeks absolutely free! Receive access to 2,000+ 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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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode
0:02.0	2015 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Mary Meckley.
0:08.0	How are you doing?
0:10.0	Welcome to day five of our series we're exploring this week, all about your brain health and
0:19.8	breathing techniques.
0:29.0	In today's episode, you are going to discover a breathing technique that helps to keep your brain young.
0:34.0	And I want to honor you for showing up today.
0:39.0	There are so many things you could be doing right now.
0:42.0	What with all the different things going on in the world and the distractions and all that we are adapting to, here you are giving yourself this time to slow down and connect to that best part of who you are. That's the part you tap into each time you settle yourself down to meditate.
1:12.1	This is the part of you that can get lost in the shuffle, especially in these days where
1:19.2	there's a lot of fear and uncertainty.
1:22.3	So know that you are right where you need to be,
1:28.0	doing the best thing you could be doing for yourself right now.
1:34.0	Before I guide you using the technique for today,
1:39.0	I want to ask you how your challenge is coming along. You had a challenge this week and that is to give
1:48.4	yourself a one minute breathing break.
1:53.0	How is it going?
1:56.0	Do you notice that you feel a little more peace, energy, and clarity. I found when I started doing a breathing technique every
2:10.5	single day I would set the alarm on my phone to go off. I did it three times a day.
2:22.0	You could do that too. You could do your one minute
2:24.7	breathing technique three times a day. Start with once a day though if you're
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