Breathing to Release Fear

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

One of the best ways to improve your level of stress is by improving the way you breathe. How you breathe does make a big difference in how you manage your emotional health. This week we launch into a series designed to improve your emotional and physical health by improving your lung capacity. You'll be guided using a different breathing technique every day. Think of this week's series are your personal Breathing Bootcamp. If you suffer from asthma or COPD, or if you are recovering from COVID19 Coronavirus, this week's breathing techniques may be especially beneficial for you. (As always, with any meditation technique, you want to make sure to check with your medical doctor). THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Practice the breathing exercises every day for a few minutes and eventually build up to doing them for 5-10 minutes a day. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I am." Breathing - Belly Breath Mudra - Push Paputa - release fear Chakra - 3rd - zest for life Herb - Lobelia - lung health Yoga Asana - Vrikasana - Tree Pose

This is part 5 of a 7-part Breathing Workshop for Emotional + Physical Health, episodes 1038-1044.

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is episode 1, 1952 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:05.6	I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to
0:10.1	this episode where we are midweek through our series, where you're discovering a different
0:18.0	meditation technique in each episode, our theme this week is a breathing boot camp and that means that you have a
0:29.6	challenge where each day this week you give yourself one to two minutes of focused breath work.
0:41.8	This is going to calm your mind and body and you will be pleasantly surprised at how much it energizes you and gives you clarity. So I encourage you to do your breathing
0:56.3	technique at some point during the day when you can focus,
1:03.0	get extra bonus points this week
1:06.0	if you do your breathing technique right
1:09.0	in the midst of your stress.
1:11.0	A fellow meditator on Instagram reached out to let me know that she did a
1:18.4	breathing technique to help calm her anxiety as she received some news from a doctor. That wasn't the best
1:28.1	news. So when you're feeling tense, disappointed, uncertain, these sound like emotions you may be experiencing
1:38.4	ongoing day and day out as we deal with a pandemic. So when you're feeling this uncertainty and fear about
1:50.8	the future, begin to focus on your breath.
1:55.0	You may not be able to control circumstances around you,
2:01.0	but you can control how you manage your breath. And your
2:10.8	inner stillness and peace doesn't have to be reliant on what's going on around you.
2:18.0	So the breathing technique for today is a technique that has you really noticing your intake of oxygen in your lungs.
2:32.0	Most of us breathe high up in our lungs, shallowly. This doesn't allow you to
2:38.8	fully oxygenate your body. There are little tiny blood vessels in the lower part of
2:46.7	your lungs that when you give yourself a full diaphragmatic breath. You tap into these small blood vessels that carry oxygen to your cells.
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