Breathing Technique to Reduce Anxiety

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,896 of the Daily Meditation podcast.
0:07.7	This is Mary Meckley and I honor you.
0:12.5	As always for showing up for yourself as you give yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.
0:27.5	In today's episode, you are going to be guided using a breathing technique to help you gain some clarity in your life.
0:43.5	Anxiety is one of the biggest distractions out there.
0:48.4	And when you're experiencing intense anxiety, it can be hard to focus.
0:56.1	And in yesterday's episode, I shared with you how my focus on a few isolated events that happened
1:10.2	in Greece, where I happened to be visiting, really distracted me to the
1:17.4	point where I was experiencing this underlying anxiety. In yesterday's episode, I mentioned how I
1:27.3	like to check the news before I travel somewhere new,
1:31.4	especially if I travel overseas and just become familiar with what's going on there and what's
1:38.0	happening currently.
1:39.9	And there are many great things happening in Greece.
1:43.6	But I focused on the worst thing possible that happened, a rare event, and it dominated my thoughts.
1:56.5	And I shared with you how I just couldn't let my anxiety rest.
2:03.2	It wasn't just one event that I zeroed in on.
2:06.9	There were a lot of other really bad things going on in Europe that I was also focusing
2:14.6	on.
2:15.6	So I felt this anxiety while I was there. And I shared with you how
2:22.6	you used an affirmation to uplift my thoughts. Well, before I got to that point where I was
2:31.3	able to notice what was going on, why I was feeling this way, it took me some time
2:41.8	to notice that I was pushing these feelings aside and numbing out from what I was really experiencing
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