Peaceful Breathing Technique, Day 3 Caring For Your Mental Health Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Today you're guided in a meditation to instantly calm your mind and body with the power of your breath. You're guided in a peaceful breathing technique.
This week's series of meditations is in honor of National Mental Health Awareness Month. The techniques and meditations you're guided through are designed to help you or your loved ones take the best care possible of your precious mental health.
This is part 3 of a 7-Part Meditation Series Caring for Your Mental Health, Episodes 2889-2895.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE:
At the end of each day, reflect on the day's top stressors. How did you handle the stress? What would you do differently?
You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. You have arrived at day three of our series this week. This is episode 2891 |
| 0:11.0 | and in day three of this week's series, you're going to be guided in a breathing technique. |
| 0:19.0 | And we have a very important theme for our series |
| 0:24.0 | and in honor of May Mental Health Awareness Month, this is a series dedicated to carrying for your mental health. |
| 0:36.0 | I hear from so many of you letting me know that you or a loved one struggles with mental health, especially since the pandemic. |
| 0:48.0 | And you let me know that this surprises you because the pandemic is over and you're wondering why you still feel so anxious or triggered throughout your day. |
| 0:59.0 | Certain things trigger you and cause you fear or anxiety. And it's often the case that you may be experiencing a little bit of trauma, a little PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. |
| 1:16.0 | And this can cause you to become hyper-vigilant about certain situations or certain locations or certain people you're with or simply remembering something that was a difficult experience. |
| 1:35.0 | And being isolated is one of the most harmful things for your mental health. |
| 1:43.0 | Now, there is isolation where it's more solace, where you enjoy being by yourself, you love or crave this alone time. |
| 1:54.0 | In fact, I did hear from some of you that during the pandemic, you felt so nourished because you were craving being alone. |
| 2:09.0 | But it's because you are likely choosing to be alone or you are engaged in a way that accommodated your time to where you felt nourished, supported. |
| 2:25.0 | But if you are isolated from loved ones and you did not choose to be alone, you did not want to be alone. |
| 2:33.0 | And you wanted nothing more than to resume your regular life, which included lots of time with others and traveling and all that many things that you do. |
| 2:48.0 | You can be experiencing fatigue, fear, anxiety. |
| 2:56.0 | And so to soothe your nervous system, I'm going to guide you in today's meditation using one of the most powerful meditation techniques to instantly calm your mind and body, and that is your breath. |
| 3:14.0 | So you're going to be guided in a mindfulness breathing technique that allows you to return to this moment where you are. |
| 3:25.0 | So if your mind is drifting towards the past and you feel yourself being triggered from past events or you feel fearful about future events, this is a breathing technique that you can do. |
| 3:38.0 | It's easy to remember and it will calm your mind and body. |
| 3:43.0 | I like to share with you how your breath is inextricably linked with your nervous system. |
| 3:52.0 | So one of the fastest ways to calm racing thoughts is by calming your breath. |
| 4:02.0 | And I invite you, as you settle yourself down now and get ready to meditate, reflect on what may be causing you any kind of mental health disruption. |
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