Breathing Technique to Sleep Better

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Join us in part 3 of this week's sleep series. You'll discover the third step of a 7-part sleep FORMULA to help you sleep better at night. Does sleep seem to evade you these days? Some health experts consider a lack of sleep to be an international epidemic. As long as there aren't any health reasons that prevent you from a good night's sleep, sleeping well at night is often attributed to healthy lifestyle habits. Yet, there's an often-overlooked reason you may not be sleeping well at night. It has more to do with how you manage your emotions. In this week's series, you'll explore a special Sleep FORMULA to get to help you get too the root cause of what may be keeping you up at night. This is part 3 of a 7-part Sleep Formula meditation series episodes 2089-2095. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Keep a Sleep Diary. Each morning, record how well you slept. Each evening, record how you feel emotionally. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I am safe. I am sound." Breathing - Inhale: "I am safe." Exhale: "I am sound." Mudra - Pran Mudra Chakra - 5th - at throat - inner truth Herb - Chamomile - sleep + relaxation Yoga Asana - Adho Mukha Svanasana - Downward Facing Dog

This is part 3 of a 7-part Sleep Formula meditation series episodes 2089-2095.

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0:00.0	This is episode 2,091 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:07.0	I'm Mary Meckley, and I welcome you back to day three of our series we're exploring this week.
0:16.1	This week, it's all about sleeping better in the midst of all this uncertainty and a pandemic, coronavirus, COVID-19, is still with us.
0:30.6	And I hear from many of you that you're not sleeping so well.
0:35.6	You're not quite sure what is going to happen in the
0:41.1	future and your emotions are all over the place. So this is a sleep formula series where with this
0:53.3	formula each day of the week you focus on a way to manage
0:58.7	your emotions and this is really in my experience in working with others one of the biggest
1:07.4	reasons why you might not be sleeping well at night doesn't necessarily
1:13.5	have to do because you have bad habits or bad rituals for your nighttime routine, but rather
1:20.9	because you're having trouble managing your emotions during the day.
1:27.1	So one of the most important things you can do when
1:30.8	you focus on your sleep is to start your day with peace, energy, and this will give you clarity.
1:43.3	So as you go throughout your day, keep your And this will give you clarity.
1:45.0	So as you go throughout your day, keep track of what's triggering your emotions.
1:53.8	We started off this series with you, freeing yourself from emotions where you feel stuck.
2:03.6	Maybe you're feeling sad about the life that you used to live before the pandemic,
2:13.6	or you're sad because you're not able to connect with especially loved ones.
2:20.0	You feel like there's something missing in your life.
2:23.6	Or you're anxious about the future.
2:27.2	Or you're a whole lot of different emotions all at once.
2:32.2	And it's hard to even process one emotion because you're experiencing so many at the same time.
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