Calm Your Breath

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2020

⏱️ 12 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 1 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 1038 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to a brand new series we're launching into this week. This is a series I think you will enjoy because
0:18.5	you may find it incredibly useful as you continue to endure this coronavirus pandemic and the fallout from the pandemic.
0:31.6	I know for myself when I wake up in the morning sometimes I feel like is this
0:37.5	still going on it can't possibly still be going on I live in Florida and we happen to be one of the
0:46.2	locations in the world where there's a large outbreak of the virus that's been escalating.
0:56.2	So I decided to create a series
1:00.3	that I'm going to title a breathing workshop because the coronavirus is known to
1:09.6	attack your lungs so the more you can do to improve your lung health, the better you are
1:20.4	to manage stress and also to fight respiratory illness.
1:25.0	So I have been doing some research from the American Lung Association
1:31.0	and I came across two simple, excellent breathing exercises that help increase your
1:40.8	lung capacity. So I'm going to share one of those with you today,
1:45.5	and I'll share the other one with you tomorrow.
1:48.2	There are many more breathing exercises
1:51.7	for your lung health.
1:53.0	I'm going to share breathing exercises from the tradition of yoga
2:00.0	with you for the rest of the week because those exercises have been around for over 5,000 years and
2:08.3	they are
2:09.7	proven to help calm your mind and body and to improve your lung capacity.
2:19.5	So get ready to improve your lung health this week. I want to share with you some of the information
2:30.2	from the American Lung Association website.
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