Welcome to episode 3,265 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to day three of the series we're exploring this week. In this week's series, you are on a journey of self-awareness and reflection.

And in today's episode, I'll guide you with insight, as I always do, taking you a little

more deeply into the week's theme theme and you're guided in a meditation

using the day's featured meditation technique, which is for today, day three. It's always

a breathing technique for day three of a series. I invite you to subscribe so you don't miss a

single episode. Consistency is the key when you're learning to meditate just as it is with any

ritual such as even exercising or eating well, you begin to see the results, the more you show up for

yourself.

And this is especially true with meditation.

You become better and better at self-awareness and reflection.

Well, your insight for today is exciting research that has been discovered.

And it has to do with a technique that I guide you through every time we meditate together.

And that is how your emotional state can be regulated

when you name your emotion so the thought is that if you can name it you can tame it So let me share some of this fascinating connections between

naming your mood and its impact on your ability to regulate your emotions. So this is a growing area of research and psychology and neuroscience,

and there is evidence to suggest that putting words to your feelings can indeed help you to

tame them. So here's a little breakdown of how it works. When you

experience strong emotions, especially negative emotions, like those big emotions such as fear,

anger, or resentment.

The amygdala, your brain's emotional center, becomes highly charged, highly active.

And this can trigger a cascade of physiological responses.

So you begin to feel this emotion in your body.

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