Calming Breathing Technique

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Calm your mind and body with the ancient elegance of the hong sau breathing technique. This is part 3 of a 7-part Clarity meditation series, episodes 1690-1696. For full guided meditations, give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2 weeks free. Receive access to 1,800+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from over 200 series to fit your mood with a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each theme. Brand new themes are introduced each week with brand new meditations offered daily. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers. All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content unless otherwise specified. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to Mary@sipandom.com. Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,692. Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for being here as you get ready to meditate. In today's episode, you're going to discover a breathing technique
0:28.6	for clarity.
0:30.6	This is our theme we're exploring for the week.
0:35.4	It's all about clarity and your brain's health. And as you do
0:44.6	today's breathing technique, this is a breathing technique that helps to calm your mind and body. Breathing techniques are one of the fastest, most efficient ways to calm yourself. And so with this technique, you can do it whether you are seated meditating or you can do it when you need some support as you go
1:18.5	about your busy day. This is a technique I do every time I sit down to meditate and I've shared
1:26.6	it with you before and it is called the Hong Sa breath.
1:34.3	Hongsa is from the ancient Sanskrit holy language of India.
1:41.0	And so this is a technique that's thousands of years old.
1:44.1	And here you are doing it to help
1:47.0	calm yourself from perhaps a crazy, busy, modern day lifestyle. And when you do this breathing
1:59.9	technique, you can feel it.
2:02.7	You can feel your mind and body begin to focus.
2:08.4	And that will help you become more at peace, to become calmer and to relax.
2:20.1	How you do the breathing technique is simple.
2:24.9	You will inhale and mentally repeat Hong.
2:31.3	And as you exhale, you'll mentally repeat saw.
2:37.2	To help you a little further, you could, as you inhale,
2:42.6	you could curl your index finger inward to your palm as you again mentally repeat
2:50.6	hung and then as you exhale,
2:53.6	you would uncurl your index finger.
2:57.6	So, Hong, curl your index finger into your palm
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