Calm your breath
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Be guided in a meditation using a calming breathing technique
This is part 3 of a 7 part Art of Self-Care Series, episodes 1522-1528. Each episode in this week's series will help you begin the process of true self-care.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,525. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | And how are you doing today? I want to welcome you to our series. We are exploring this week, which is all about self-care. |
| 0:19.0 | But maybe not the kind of self-care you are thinking of and maybe used to doing, such as making |
| 0:28.4 | sure you're eating right, taking care of your body and working your hardest, finishing your tasks and |
| 0:37.4 | projects on time, the kind of self-care that we're exploring this week has to do with self-care for your soul or your |
| 0:49.5 | spirit and this is the kind of self-care that we most neglect and most importantly that we most need. In fact, we need this self-care for our soul in order to feel like our lives matter that we make a difference. And so this is a little more deeper than we typically go with our meditations. |
| 1:29.0 | And through this series you'll discover techniques to help you recognize your souls desires. |
| 1:44.0 | And so as you get ready to meditate today, |
| 1:48.0 | and you settle yourself down and you start to notice how you feel as you sit to meditate. |
| 1:57.2 | Many times, the focus is to tame your wandering thoughts, to calm your body and to calm your mind. And that's true that definitely helps you to meditate better but the |
| 2:18.6 | best way to focus as you meditate as is the best way for you to honor your soul, your spirit, is by focusing on your heart, because your heart is the |
| 2:40.5 | filter. You first perceive something emotionally and then you try to rationalize it or to make sense of it. |
| 2:51.2 | Well as you meditate today, try not to make sense of things, try not to rationalize things. |
| 3:25.0 | Rather, try listening to your heart. It may have been a while since you did this and you may feel a great sense of relief as you focus on your heart. |
| 3:30.4 | So you're going to discover, I'm going to share with you now a breathing technique because every Tuesday |
| 3:36.4 | this is for a Tuesday's meditation I share a breathing technique and this is a breathing technique I've shared with you before. It's a powerful |
| 3:46.7 | technique and very simple but it instantly calms your mind and body. |
| 3:55.0 | And some people refer to it as the even breath, |
| 3:59.0 | because what you do is you inhale, hold your breath, and exhale to the count of four and then |
| 4:09.9 | you do it four times. Now you can hold this breath longer to the count of five or six. I hold it to the |
| 4:20.1 | count of 12 not to show off just to let you know that you can become better and better |
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