Release Stress + Toxins

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

One of the best ways to improve your level of stress is by improving the way you breathe. How you breathe does make a big difference in how you manage your emotional health. This week we launch into a series designed to improve your emotional and physical health by improving your lung capacity. You'll be guided using a different breathing technique every day. Think of this week's series are your personal Breathing Bootcamp. If you suffer from asthma or COPD, or if you are recovering from COVID19 Coronavirus, this week's breathing techniques may be especially beneficial for you. (As always, with any meditation technique, you want to make sure to check with your medical doctor). THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Practice the breathing exercises every day for a few minutes and eventually build up to doing them for 5-10 minutes a day. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I am." Breathing - Belly Breath Mudra - Push Paputa - release fear Chakra - 3rd - zest for life Herb - Lobelia - lung health Yoga Asana - Vrikasana - Tree Pose

This is part 2 of a 7-part Breathing Workshop for Emotional + Physical Health, episodes 1038-1044.

You'll find additional daily support and a weekly guide with the meditation techniques for each theme at sip.and.om Instagram. You'll find deeper, longer daily 30-minute guided meditations on the Sip and Om meditation app. I invite you to try it for 2-weeks absolutely free! Receive access to 2,000+ 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. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers.

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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 Mary@sipandom.com.

Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is episode one thousand thirty nine of the daily meditation podcast.
0:07.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you back to day two of our series where we are exploring all week long how to improve your lung capacity
0:20.5	with your breath. This also will not only help you physically, but it will also help
0:30.5	you manage your stress level. This is a help you
0:38.4	This is a breathing workshop all week long and I'm going to share with you in today.
0:46.7	And I'm going to share with you in today's episode a breathing technique from the American Lung Association and this is from their website and this is a technique called belly breathing or
0:56.6	diaphragic breathing. Now I've shared this technique with you often here
1:02.0	on the podcast. In fact it's the way I recommend you.
1:05.7	Always breathe diaphragmatically. However, this technique varies slightly and I'll share the difference in a moment. I want to
1:18.1	mention to you that you have a challenge this week.
1:24.0	Every week, I issue you a challenge.
1:28.2	And your challenge for this week
1:30.7	is to notice your breath and to do these breathing exercises.
1:39.0	They make a big difference in your health and as I mentioned in your stress level because your breath and
1:50.3	your emotional state are interconnected.
1:55.0	So when you are better able to calm your breath,
2:02.1	you're better able to calm. calm your
2:05.0	emotional state and reaction to stress.
2:10.0	I met with somebody the other day who I will be interviewing soon on the podcast.
2:17.0	He's a permaculturalist who is going to help us turn our backyard into a food forest.
2:25.0	So stay tuned for that.
2:27.0	Now, what he told me,
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