This is episode

20084 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to

day three of a series we're exploring this week and the theme for the week is how to survive

uncertainty and there's a lot of uncertainty going around these days as we experience a global

pandemic with COVID-19. In today's episode you're going to discover a simple breathing technique you can do to help

you manage uncertainty.

In the very first episode of this series,

there was an interview with a school teacher who wrote a book

on how to help children train their brains so

that they can manage stress in a much better way. And this book is called Brain Awake.

And in the book, one of the main focus points to help children manage stress was to become aware of how they feel and then to use

their breath to help them calm their emotions and this is what we do when we meditate. We become aware of how we're feeling.

And then we use different strategies.

In our case, we use meditation techniques

to help us manage the stress much better. As I was researching this week's theme of uncertainty and

looking for examples of how people these days are managing this uncertainty with the coronavirus.

I came across an article by Psychology Today and this article was written by Dr Austin Perlmutter from the modern brain.

It's titled Five Strategies for Managing Uncertainty during COVID-19. He says, we are all

unsure what comes next. Here are some ways to approach the unknown.

And what I really enjoyed about this article

is that it gave suggestions that

have a lot to do with mindfulness.

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