Manage Your Reaction to Stress

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

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

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🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It's an entire week of relaxing breathing exercises to calm fear and anxiety all week long. Be guided with a different calming breathing technique in each day's episode this week. This is part 4 of a 7-part Relaxing Breathing Exercises Series, episodes 2005-2011. Give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2-weeks free! Receive access to 1,900+ 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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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected].

Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is episode 2008 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:05.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for showing up for yourself today.
0:10.0	How are you doing? You know there are so many other things you could be doing at
0:16.5	this moment but here you are. You are taking some time to give yourself more peace, more energy, and more clarity.
0:30.0	And sometimes it's hard to find clarity in these times of uncertainty.
0:37.0	One thing is certain and that is that you what this week's series is all about as we continue to explore a different breathing technique each day this week.
1:01.0	I'll still continue to share with you the day's usual meditation technique.
1:07.0	This is being recorded for a Wednesday.
1:10.0	Every Wednesday I share a mojra with you. I'll moodra with you.
1:13.0	I'll be sharing with you not only the moodra, but also a breathing technique.
1:19.0	The breathing technique I'll be sharing with you today is an important one, especially
1:26.6	if you notice yourself more anxious these days or if you have a tendency to experience anxiety or fear. And I want to share
1:39.1	with you some insight from an article by Christopher Andre in the Scientific American.
1:48.0	It's titled Proper Breathing Brings Better Health. And I shared some breathing brings better health.
1:53.6	And I shared some insight from this article with you earlier in the week.
1:59.0	Well, as I explored this article a little more, it's an excellent article. I recommend you read if you're interested
2:07.2	in how breathing techniques can help you manage your physiology as well as your psychology.
2:17.0	In the article, there's research about what is referred to as cardiac coherence.
2:25.0	This is a popular technique to help reduce anxiety.
2:30.0	And what it does is it helps to coordinate your breath, the rate you're breathing at,
2:39.8	with your heart rate, slowing and steadying, breathing to slow and stabilize your heartbeat.
2:50.2	And this is a method that was developed to help understand how slow deep breathing increases the activity of the Vegas nerve. This nerve... the I've shared with you in the past about your Vegas nerve and when you tone your Vegas
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