Breathing to Calm Your Heart, Day 3 Lean Into Life's Challenges
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
"How you breathe affects your heart... "
~ Dr. Leah Lagos, author of "Heart, Breath Mind"
Do you feel yourself resisting challenges in your life? In this week's series, you're going to be guided to lean into life's challenges. The series will start off with a special interview with a mindfulness-based business owner, Brandon Nolte from Stello mints. You'll hear how Brandon struggled with social anxiety and what helped him overcome it to become the founder of a mindfulness-based business. As a special gift, Brandon is offering the first 100 guests who visit www.StelloMints.com a free trial pack of Stello mints to try them out for yourself on your own mindfulness journey.
This is day 3 of a 7-day meditation series, Lean Into Challenges, episodes 2474-2480.
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Go on a Lean Into Challenges Quest
This week, when faced with challenges, own your emotions. Take some time to sit in stillness to process the emotions you're experiencing.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Episode 2476 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Mechley and I'm honored to share with you today's episode. |
| 0:12.0 | You're going to be guided in a meditation using a breathing technique |
| 0:18.0 | that has been thoroughly researched to calm your mind and body. |
| 0:24.0 | This is a breathing technique that is considered to be so effective |
| 0:28.0 | that a psychologist wrote an entire book about this breathing technique |
| 0:35.0 | and put together a program where you follow along doing this breathing technique |
| 0:40.0 | twice a day for 20 minutes at a time to calm your mind and body at a deep level. |
| 0:49.0 | This is the book that our mindfulness-based entrepreneur, |
| 0:55.0 | you may have listened to in the very first day of this week's series, Branden Nolte. |
| 1:02.0 | Recommended this breathing technique that he discovered from the book Heart Breath Mind by Dr. Leah Lagos. |
| 1:14.0 | This is a simple breathing technique. |
| 1:16.0 | It has you inhaling through your nose to the count of four |
| 1:22.0 | and exhaling through your mouth to the count of six. |
| 1:27.0 | Before I guide you through this breathing technique, |
| 1:30.0 | it's important to understand heart rate variability. |
| 1:34.0 | And this is the time it takes for your heart to beat from one beat to the next. |
| 1:42.0 | A strong, steady heart rate variability or HRV |
| 1:49.0 | with more time between each heartbeat improves your ability to manage stress. |
| 1:57.0 | So if you notice that when you're nervous or anxious, |
| 2:02.0 | you will sweat or your heart will race or maybe your hands even tremble. |
| 2:10.0 | You may notice a physical response in your body. |
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