Breathing to Manage Stress
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In today's episode, you'll discover a breathing meditation technique to manage stress.
This is part 3 of a 7 part Manage Fatigue series, episodes 1564-1570.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,566. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to our series we're exploring as we discover meditation techniques to help you manage fatigue. |
| 0:19.0 | So how is your energy level today? |
| 0:26.9 | In the past few episodes of this series I've shared with you the concept that is called in Japanese Harahachibu. This is the concept of living your life at 20%. That means doing something to the point where you still feel like you're going strong, but you feel a little like |
| 0:50.4 | pretty soon your energy might start to dwindle and this could be at any |
| 0:55.4 | kind of work you do maybe a sport you do maybe even a conversation you're having with |
| 1:02.0 | a difficult person. |
| 1:04.4 | What you do is you start to break off |
| 1:07.6 | and switch gears when you start to fill your energy |
| 1:12.2 | just to the point where it might start to diminish. |
| 1:15.7 | And then you do something else that refreshes you that is going to energize you or relax you. In fact, relaxation is often energizing. And I want to |
| 1:28.1 | mention to you that as you manage fatigue this week, many people think that when they're feeling fatigued, |
| 1:39.4 | that they need to just take it easy and do nothing. |
| 1:45.0 | Just relax doing nothing. |
| 1:49.0 | Well, sometimes when you do this, this can cause fatigue. It can be stressful doing nothing. |
| 2:01.1 | This makes me think about my dad who is retired and about a year ago |
| 2:08.0 | he injured his back. Now he is an avid golfer. He lives in Arizona in a golf |
| 2:16.8 | community where he can golf every single day which he has done for years, literally just about every day. |
| 2:25.0 | And he has an injury now, so he has to take it easy for six months to a year. |
| 2:32.0 | And what he realized... for six months to a year. |
| 2:32.5 | And what he realized is that he didn't have anything else to do. |
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