This is episode 1,75.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for being here as you give yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. In today's episode you are going to explore a cleansing

breathing technique and this is not so much a physically cleansing breath.

There are meditation techniques that physically are cleansing. This is a mentally and emotionally cleansing breath and

this is a breathing technique for you if you suffer from addiction or any kind of bad habits.

And you can do this breathing technique to help prep yourself for better lifestyle

habits when you begin to feel as though you are leaning

towards your

craving or dependency on anything really even a relationship.

You can do this breathing technique to help you halt. Now let me explain a little bit about halt. Holt is an

acronym that can help you manage your cravings before they even begin.

And as we continue with our managing addiction and bad habit series, you are also learning how to prevent addictions and bad lifestyle habits from seeping into your life.

As I've mentioned throughout this series, no one starts off thinking, yeah, I think I'll become

a full-blown addict, or I think that I'll start becoming addicted to this person or

addicted to exercise or chocolate or whatever it may be.

We start out innocently enough, but it's the lifestyle you lead that can contribute to your addictions.

So you recover from addictions and bad habits by creating a new life

where it's easier not to use a substance or to do whatever it is that it's addictive or a bad habit for you.

If you don't create this new life, then according to the article that I'm reading about addictions and recovery from the addictions and recovery.org

website if you don't create a brand new life Then in this article it says all the factors that brought you to your

addiction will eventually catch up with you again. Now you don't have to change every single thing about your life,

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