Mental Focus Breathing Technique

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

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

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This week we explore an important topic -- your brain health. Research shows compelling evidence that lifestyle habits contribute to or detract from your brain health. Join us each day to explore a different meditation technique to reclaim your mental focus. Take part in the weekly challenge to tame distractions that hold you hostage. This is part 3 of a 7-part Brain Health and Focus, episodes 2026-2032. Give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2-weeks 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 28 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:06.1	I'm Mary Meckley.
0:08.0	How are you doing?
0:09.3	We continue with our theme this week which is all about brain health in regard to focus.
0:18.8	And in today's episode you're going to discover a very useful, simple, elegant breathing
0:30.3	technique you can do as you settle yourself down to meditate or as you go about
0:37.6	your day.
0:40.4	And I want to check in with you regarding your weekly challenge.
0:46.8	You have a challenge this week.
0:50.4	Your challenge is to begin to become aware of your most common
0:57.6	distractions and to begin to let go or at least manage these distractions. How are you doing with this challenge?
1:09.5	Are you beginning to notice that you become more distracted when you are nervous or tired or angry or hungry.
1:25.0	Maybe you've noticed a pattern
1:28.4	when you're most likely to become distracted. So it can be a habit that is triggered by a particular emotional state and your breathing technique today to help you interrupt this distraction, this pattern that
1:51.9	you may be doing again and again day in and day out. I did a little research
1:58.9	and found from the Greater Good. Berkeley.ed,
2:06.2	E. The Greater Good magazine,
2:08.4	science-based insights for a meaningful life.
2:13.2	And this is from the University of California at Berkeley.
2:18.1	This article is titled,
2:19.7	What Focusing on the Breath does to your brain.
2:23.6	It is by Grace Polack, and it was just written in 2019.
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