This is episode 1,152.

Welcome to your daily guided meditation.

How are you doing?

I honor you as always for giving yourself this time to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. In today's episode you're going to be guided using a powerful

breathing technique to cultivate gratitude. I'm Mary Meckley and I share a different meditation technique every day here on the

podcast. Each technique is always customized around a theme we explore in depth for a full week so you can

really master a particular quality in your

theme is how to snap out of a bad mood.

So all the techniques will help you manage a bad mood

and your challenge this week is to come up with your own recipe that you can use the next time you're in a bad mood.

So come up with a formula that you know works for you using some of the techniques you explore

throughout this week and also by becoming aware of what's triggering your bad mood and noticing that, avoiding it or doing your best to manage it.

The best way to manage a bad mood is before it even strikes.

So when you create your own recipe for how you'll manage a bad mood,

you can automatically have this as a reference point that you revert to.

You automatically start doing the techniques so that you don't stay stuck in a bad mood.

So the breathing technique for today is a technique that's going to help you cultivate gratitude.

And there's been a lot of research done on how your breath is interconnected with mice.

mice, but it was an interesting study in how mice who were stressed were breathing rapidly.

And mice, when they were calm and content were breathing more slowly.

And throughout the ages, the ancient yogis have known

your breath is interrelated to your emotional state.

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