SDN851 Breathing Technique to Reduce Anxiety
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This is part of the Slow Down Nation private meditations. Discover a breathing technique to manage social anxiety that you can easily remember to do when you are experiencing stress in the moment. Also, discover how to posture your body to feel confident.
This is part 3 of a 7-Part Meditation to Manage Social Anxiety, Episodes 849-855.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Episode 8501. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to your daily meditation. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm so proud of you for being here to get ready to be guided in a meditation. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm Mary Meckley, I'm your meditation guide and in today's meditation you're going to be guided |
| 0:26.6 | using a breathing technique and you're also going to discover a technique to support your body because today is for Tuesday's meditation. |
| 0:41.2 | I always share a breathing technique and I always share a lifestyle meditation technique for you, |
| 0:50.1 | for your body. |
| 0:51.8 | So you can bring meditation off your cushion or wherever you meditate |
| 0:57.0 | into your everyday life to create a meditation lifestyle. So you're going to do this technique. I think you're going to like it. |
| 1:08.0 | And of course as always, these techniques are customized around our weekly theme. |
| 1:15.6 | So you get to use them to really master a particular quality in your life. |
| 1:21.6 | And our theme for this week is all about how to manage social anxiety. |
| 1:29.3 | And this is a very important topic because we all have social anxiety to some degree. |
| 1:37.3 | It may trigger us differently in different areas of our life, but there's usually always something that can cause |
| 1:47.6 | you social anxiety. And just to give you a little overview of what anxiety does to your body, |
| 1:57.4 | especially social anxiety. In fact, social anxiety can affect you or give you the same kind of |
| 2:07.3 | symptoms as if you are having a heart attack. That is how profound social anxiety impacts us. So isn't it nicer and more enjoyable to use a |
| 2:23.4 | meditation technique to calm your social anxiety to prepare yourself for |
| 2:28.6 | these situations so you don't have to wreak havoc on your body let me just |
| 2:33.6 | give you a rundown of some of the symptoms |
| 2:37.0 | that social anxiety produces. |
| 2:39.7 | It produces a rapid heart rate. |
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