Qigong Breathing Technique to Calm Your Mind and Body, Day 3 Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Discover a breathing technique used often in the ancient Chinese healing art of qigong to calm your mind and body.
In this week's series, you are guided using meditation techniques from some of the world's master meditators. Join the likes of world-class meditators to infuse ancient wisdom into modern life challenges.
This is part 3 of a 7-Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life series, Episodes 1052-1058.
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 | This is Episode 1554. Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast, and I want to share with you |
| 0:10.5 | that I'm excited for today's episode because I'm going to share with you a technique |
| 0:19.5 | using a kikong breathing method. And you are going to explore how to use your breath, the |
| 0:30.0 | proper way to use your breath, whether you're walking or whether you're seated meditating. You'll |
| 0:37.2 | discover why your breath is so important in the ancient art of kikong. And this is Part 3. |
| 0:48.7 | of our seven part series on ancient techniques for your modern life. So this entire week you'll |
| 0:55.6 | explore a different ancient technique that you can do as you meditate or go about your day. |
| 1:04.2 | And these are techniques I've selected that you can do pretty easily and incorporate them into |
| 1:11.2 | your modern day. Now a lot of techniques out there are fascinating and really exciting to do. |
| 1:20.8 | But many of them can be a little bit elaborate and I wanted to share some techniques with you |
| 1:28.0 | that you could actually imagine yourself doing. In fact, you could easily do it right now. |
| 1:35.9 | So let me share a little bit about the ancient art of kikong with you before I guide you through |
| 1:44.3 | this technique. And I'm Mary Mechley. I share a different meditation every single day on the |
| 1:52.5 | podcast. And every meditation is customized around a weekly theme that we explore in depth. |
| 2:01.2 | So as I mentioned this week, it's all about ancient arts. Kikong is a traditional Chinese art. |
| 2:13.2 | It's a holistic system where you use different movements that have to do with your breathing |
| 2:23.1 | and meditation that has to do with your health as well as your spirituality and it's even a |
| 2:33.8 | martial arts training. So this is a very powerful system and it's part of Chinese medicine. |
| 2:45.0 | In fact, kikong is often an integral part of any kind of prescription for diseases, cancers, |
| 2:57.0 | and anytime you're ill in China. So this is a philosophy that helps you to become aware |
| 3:06.6 | and it awakens your true nature. So this is what you do every time you sit down to meditate, |
| 3:13.1 | you become aware and you become more in touch with your true inner nature as you sit in stillness |
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