Soothing Breathing Technique, Day 3 Shift Out of a Bad Mood
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Today you're guided in a meditation with an affirmation to improve your mood. This affirmation can make a big difference in your mood.
This week's series of meditations guide you on a journey to help you manage your worst moods. You're guided to create a recipe to snap out of a bad mood.
This is part 3 of a 7-Part Meditation Series Shift Out of a Bad Mood, Episodes 1150-1156
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE:
Keep a Mood Journal and manage negative moods that interfere with you living a beautiful life.
You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Episode 1152. Welcome to your daily guided meditation. |
| 0:07.0 | How are you doing? I honor you as always for giving yourself this time to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. |
| 0:23.0 | In today's episode, you're going to be guided using a powerful breathing technique to cultivate gratitude. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Mary Mechley and I share a different meditation technique every day here on the podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | Each technique is always customized around a theme we explore in depth for a full week. |
| 0:48.0 | You can really master a particular quality in your life. |
| 0:52.0 | This week's theme is how to snap out of a bad mood. |
| 0:57.0 | So all the techniques will help you manage a bad mood and your challenge this week is to come up with your own recipe that you can use the next time you're in a bad mood. |
| 1:10.0 | So come up with a formula that you know works for you using some of the techniques you explore throughout this week and also by becoming aware of what's triggering your bad mood. |
| 1:23.0 | And noticing that avoiding it or doing your best to manage it, the best way to manage a bad mood is before it even strikes. |
| 1:36.0 | So when you create your own recipe for how you'll manage a bad mood, you can automatically have this as a reference point that you revert to. |
| 1:48.0 | You automatically start doing the techniques so that you don't stay stuck in a bad mood. |
| 1:56.0 | So the breathing technique for today is a technique that's going to help you cultivate gratitude. |
| 2:05.0 | And there has been a lot of research done on how your breath is interconnected with your state. |
| 2:14.0 | And there was a study done with mice, but it was an interesting study and how mice who were stressed were breathing rapidly. |
| 2:30.0 | And mice when they were calm and content were breathing more slowly. |
| 2:36.0 | And throughout the ages, the ancient yogis have known your breath is interrelated to your emotional state. |
| 2:47.0 | Well, now we have scientific evidence of this. |
| 2:51.0 | And the study was conducted by one of the members was Mark Cressnow. |
| 2:59.0 | He's a professor of biochemistry at Stanford. |
| 3:02.0 | And he was the senior author of this study. |
| 3:05.0 | And the study was published in Science magazine. |
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