Clear Your Mind Breathing Technique, Day 3 of The Art of Happiness
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
"The happiest people are not the ones that achieve the most. They are the ones who spend more time than others in a state of flow."
~ Hector Garcia Puigcerver, author of "Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life "
This week you're guided on a journey to feel comfortable with stillness. It can take a little practice to begin to feel at home with stillness. We launch into the series with an interview with one of your fellow meditators, Vidhu, from India. Vidhu shares how she overcame hopelessness with inner stillness. She shares her favorite meditation techniques and tips and challenges you to ask yourself 2 questions when you begin to feel hopeless or overwhelmed: 1) "Can I do everything? The answer is no." 2) "Can I do something? The answer is yes."
You can say hello to Vidhu @booksandmore20 on Instagram. She'd love to answer any questions about her meditation ritual and lifestyle habits.
This is day 3 of a 7-day meditation series, The Art of Stillness, episodes 2390-2396.
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Live in the Moment Quest
Every day ask yourself these 2 questions: 1) "Can I do everything? The answer is no." 2) "Can I do something? The answer is yes."
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,392 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Mary Mechley, and welcome back to day three of our series we're exploring this week. |
| 0:17.0 | This week it's all about the art of stillness, and you may be finding that you have a little |
| 0:25.5 | more time these days to be still if you are experiencing lockdown. |
| 0:32.5 | As many of us are as we continue through this pandemic. |
| 0:36.5 | In today's episode I'm going to share with you a breathing technique. |
| 0:42.5 | It's a classic yoga and meditation breathing technique called the nadi shodana. |
| 0:52.5 | Otherwise known as the alternate breathing technique. |
| 0:57.5 | This is a classic breathing technique that you may have a little fun with today. |
| 1:05.5 | When you do the technique you use your thumb and ring fingers to close off each nostril as you inhale and exhale |
| 1:19.5 | through each nostril alternating nostrils. |
| 1:24.5 | I'll guide you through the technique we can do this together. |
| 1:28.5 | When you do this breathing technique it has many benefits for you. |
| 1:35.5 | It benefits your mind as well as your body because you're controlling your breath with focused attention. |
| 1:44.5 | It's fantastic to help regulate your nervous system. |
| 1:49.5 | Stress and fear and all these big emotions activate your nervous system. |
| 1:56.5 | Your body interprets these stressful emotions as a type of danger and it's reacting to help prepare you. |
| 2:09.5 | So you will notice that your organs send out certain hormones that can make your heartbeat faster, your breath quicken, your muscles tighten and your senses sharpen. |
| 2:26.5 | And this is called the stress response. |
| 2:30.5 | If you're constantly stressed this response can be continually activated and can lead to health problems like high blood pressure and heart disease. |
| 2:44.5 | Now I'm reading this for you from Web MD. |
| 2:51.5 | It's an article called what to know about alternate nostril breathing and this article explains how to do alternate nostril breathing. |
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