Gratitude Breathing Technique
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Breathing Technique to open yourself to new possibilities.
In this episode you are guided in a meditation by Jack Kornfield from his beautiful book, "The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness and Peace."
This is part 3 of a 7-part Gratitude Meditation Series, Episodes 1311-1317.
Do the meditation standing, seating, walking -- whenever you most need to relax.
As always, all the meditation techniques used in this Meditation Series can be found at www.SipandOm.com.
There you'll find an invitation to try the entire library of 1300+ meditations for 2 weeks absolutely free.
Music composed by Greg Keller, and also by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com.
Any tips, techniques, and advice is not intended as a way to improve yourself psychologically or physiologically. Please seek the advice of your physician before meditating, and especially before trying any herbs.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2070 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Neckley and I welcome you back to our series all about your mind heart connection and how when you calm your mind and body you can manage your reaction to stress. In today's episode you are |
| 0:28.2 | going to be guided with a breathing technique to help calm your mind and body and to help you experience love and |
| 0:41.3 | to send that love to someone who may be in need. |
| 0:47.5 | Love starts in the mind, but it's felt in the heart. |
| 0:54.0 | There is a 2017 study that was published in trends in cognitive sciences, |
| 1:02.0 | and it evaluated how cranial chemical changes occur when humans experience love. |
| 1:16.7 | And in the study, the conclusion was that |
| 1:20.7 | the feel good chemicals such as dopamine and oxytocin increase when we begin to form an attachment with someone. |
| 1:35.0 | This can be a friendship attachment or a romantic attachment or an attachment with a family member, someone that you feel love towards. |
| 1:50.0 | When a love or attachment relationship is broken, then those same feel-good chemicals can leak havoc on your body and you experience this in your |
| 2:09.1 | heart so you feel like you have a broken heart. |
| 2:15.0 | And you can even experience what is considered to be Tachotsubo. This is a cardiomyopathy. It's a new disease that's |
| 2:29.6 | been recognized that causes the left ventricle of the heart to weaken because of stress. |
| 2:37.0 | In fact, it's often referred to as Broken Heart Syndrome. |
| 2:42.0 | Well, as you consider maybe some masses you may be |
| 2:47.7 | feeling these days as you experience a pandemic you might be feeling a loss of attachment, a loss of something important in your life, your regular schedule, maybe your job, maybe you're not able to see people around you that you normally see because you have to social distance. |
| 3:16.2 | So as you do today's breathing technique, |
| 3:20.9 | 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 or it's a breathing |
| 3:40.6 | technique you can do as you go about your day. |
| 3:46.4 | To do this technique, go ahead and sit down somewhere where you're not likely to be interrupted and give yourself this time to |
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