Gratitude Breathing Technique
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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This is part 3 of a 7-part Brain Health Connection to Reduce Stress and Improve Mental Clarity, episodes 2068-2074.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 270 of the Daily Meditation podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you back to our series all about your mind-heart connection |
| 0:16.7 | and how when you calm your mind and body, you can manage your reaction to stress. |
| 0:25.7 | In today's episode, you are going to be guided with a breathing technique to help calm your mind and body and to help you experience love and to send that love to someone |
| 0:43.6 | who may be in need. Love starts in the mind, but it's felt in the heart. There is a 2017 study that was published in |
| 0:59.2 | trends in cognitive sciences, and it evaluated how cranial chemical changes occur when humans experience love. |
| 1:16.2 | And in the study, the conclusion was that the feel-good chemicals, such as dopamine |
| 1:25.0 | and oxytocin increase when we begin to form an attachment with someone. |
| 1:34.8 | This can be a friendship attachment or a romantic attachment or an attachment with a family member, someone that you feel love towards. |
| 1:50.8 | When a love or attachment relationship is broken, then those same feel-good chemicals can wreak havoc on your body. And you experience this |
| 2:08.0 | in your heart. So you feel like you have a broken heart. And you can even experience what is considered to be Takotsubo. This is a cardiomyopathy. |
| 2:27.1 | It's a new disease that's been recognized that causes the left ventricle of the heart to weaken because of stress. |
| 2:38.2 | In fact, it's often referred to as broken heart syndrome. |
| 2:43.3 | Well, as you consider, maybe some losses you may be feeling these days as you experience a pandemic. You might be feeling |
| 2:55.7 | a loss of attachment, a loss of something important in your life, your regular schedule, |
| 3:04.7 | maybe your job, maybe you're not able to see people around you that you |
| 3:11.3 | normally see because you have to social distance. So as you do today's breathing technique, |
| 3:20.5 | know that your breath can soothe both your mind and your heart. |
| 3:28.0 | So the breathing technique for today is one you can do as you sit down to meditate today. |
| 3:38.0 | Or it's a breathing technique you can do as you go about your day. To do this |
| 3:46.9 | technique go ahead and sit down somewhere where you're not likely to be interrupted and give |
| 3:54.6 | yourself this time to slow down. |
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