Manage Stress With Your Breath

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Behappy, Mental Health, Meditation, Anxiety, Sleep, Mindfulness, Alternative Health, Guidedmeditation, Health & Fitness, Focus

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Your breath is one of your most powerful tools to manage the inevitable stress in life. Your emotional state is interconnected with your breath. One of the best ways to instantly calm your mind and body is to calm your breath. This week's series will guide you through simple, elegant breathing techniques to create a refuge of peace you can escape to during times of fear and uncertainty. This is part 1 of a 7-part Brain Health and Breathing, episodes 2047-2053. If you'd like to experience deeper, longer daily 30-minute guided meditations, I invite you to try the Sip and Om meditation app for 2-weeks absolutely free! Receive access to 2,000+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from 300+ 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.

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 2047 of your daily meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you as you give yourself permission to slow down.
0:14.6	How are you doing?
0:16.3	I honor you for being right here, where you are,
0:22.0	showing up for yourself to give yourself a little more peace, energy, and clarity.
0:29.9	And that is what this week's theme is all about.
0:35.4	Today we launch into a theme that will have you
0:40.8	exploring a different breathing technique in each episode.
0:47.0	This is part of a collection of Brain Health meditation series all geared toward improving your clarity, your
0:58.8	memory, your focus, your concentration, and those valuable qualities that help you navigate these times of
1:09.5	uncertainty and one of the reasons why I want to share with you these breathing techniques this week is because these are ancient techniques.
1:21.0	You can apply today in 2020.
1:27.0	And when you consider the longevity of these techniques, they've been around for over 5,000 years.
1:37.0	That's how long it is estimated yoga and meditation have been in use. So through millennia there have been a lot of
1:50.1	extenuating circumstances, terrible calamities, great strides in human endeavors with
2:00.6	art and science and technology. But despite humanity's advances and
2:08.3	despite some of our downfalls. We remain the same. Our nervous system still is triggered by certain stressors. We experience the same range of human emotions today as we did
2:29.8	5,000 years ago when the breathing techniques I'll be sharing with you this week, were created.
2:39.2	This is good news because it means that we can all do this together. We can get through these uncertain times.
2:50.6	We can handle and manage what comes our way and we can do so while living our life to the best of our ability.
3:02.0	Regardless of what's going on around us or inside of us. Showing
3:09.2	up for yourself is the best thing you can do and sometimes it's the only thing that matters in your day.
3:20.0	So here you are.
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