Relaxing Breath

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

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

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2020

⏱️ 11 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 1 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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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sip-and-om/id1216664612?platform=iphone&preserveScrollPosition=true#platform/iphone

2 weeks free access to the Android version:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sipandom.sipandom

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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 2005 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley. How are you doing?
0:11.6	I congratulate you for giving your self permission to slow down. This week we launch into a brand new meditation series.
0:27.0	We'll explore for an entire week.
0:31.0	And our theme this week is one that's going to calm your mind and body every
0:39.2	day. You will be guided each day using a different breathing technique.
0:47.0	The theme is, breathing for relaxation. Your breath is inextricably linked with your emotional state. So the
1:00.4	fastest way to calm your mind and your body is to calm your breath.
1:08.0	There's a lot of research that shows how proper breathing brings better health,
1:17.4	better physical health,
1:19.1	as well as better emotional health.
1:23.0	And I'll share with you an article from The Scientific American
1:29.0	by Christopher Andre from January 2019.
1:37.0	He talks about how stress reduction,
1:41.6	insomnia prevention, emotion control, improved attention, can all be accomplished
1:51.0	by doing certain breathing techniques.
1:55.0	Each day this week, you will discover a different
1:59.3	breathing technique that you can do to help you in some way.
2:04.0	In this article, Christopher Andrei,
2:08.0	explains how breathing techniques can help you on a psychological level by
2:17.6	stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system.
2:29.6	Your parasympathetic nervous system is often considered to be your rest and digest center of your body. It is located, as you might guess, in your digestive area.
2:41.1	And when you activate your parasympathetic nervous system, you will notice that your heart
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