Welcome to the meditation minis podcast.

Mindshifting meditations to help you feel better fast.

With your host, Hedmitist, Shell Hamilton.

Hello and welcome the topic for this meditation comes by Listener request from Joana.

She wrote and asked for something to help calm when parenting gets too much.

But we're going to do this in a way that works even if you're not a parent.

Specifically, she was talking about finding herself getting cranky with the kids and I thought,

oh, that's really good even for people who are just feeling in general cranky.

If you don't have kids or the kids have empty nested, it's also going to work for physical tension, frustration, irritation and anger as well.

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You can do this meditation with your eyes open or your eyes closed.

Go ahead and make yourself comfortable and begin by taking one slow deep breath in through your nose, breathing as deeply into your body as you can.

And then exhale maybe even with a little sigh out of the mouth.

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