Soothing Breathing Technique to Release Anxiety, Day 3 Managing Procrastination
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Be guided in a meditation with an breathing technique to calm anxious thoughts so that you can focus on what matters most to you.
This week's series of meditations guide you on a journey to reclaim your inner peace. Peace is within you. It's always there. You may have lost your connection with your inner peace, but it's always been there. Your challenge this week is to reclaim your inner peace. Begin to weave awareness of peace back into the fabric of your life.
This is part 3 of a 7-Part Meditation Series to Manage Procrastination and Distraction, Episodes 877-883.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE:
Keep a Distractions Journal at hand this week. Write down the distracting thoughts that come your way and begin to notice patterns of distractions.
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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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 879. Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Mechley and I'm so honored |
| 0:10.8 | you're here. Giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. |
| 0:22.4 | I share a different meditation technique every single day on this podcast and each technique is |
| 0:31.6 | customized around a weekly theme. So you get to explore a particular topic in-depth applying |
| 0:39.8 | meditation techniques throughout your day as you explore. This week our theme is procrastination. |
| 0:50.1 | So as you explore procrastination this week and these are techniques that are customized for you |
| 0:59.7 | that you can do if you're seated right now getting ready to meditate or if you're not quite |
| 1:06.2 | a meditator yet but you still would like some stress relief techniques to apply during the |
| 1:11.8 | busiest moments of your day. You have come to the right place because you will learn meditation |
| 1:17.9 | techniques that you can use throughout your busy day. Now the technique you'll be exploring |
| 1:24.7 | today is a breathing technique. Your breath is one of the most powerful ways to instantly |
| 1:34.2 | calm your mind and body. You'll also discover how to support your body, your health. I like to say |
| 1:45.9 | that meditation is a lifestyle so it's not just you sitting there meditating. It's a lifestyle. |
| 1:54.8 | It's a way you live your days and this is when you really get the benefits of meditation when |
| 2:03.7 | you can pull these techniques into the most stressful moments of your day. So our series is all about |
| 2:13.6 | releasing procrastination, the fear, the anxiety, the anger, the self-doubt, |
| 2:22.4 | release these big emotions. So the breathing technique you can do whether you're seated |
| 2:32.1 | meditating or standing in line at the grocery store sitting in rush hour traffic is a simple |
| 2:38.4 | breathing technique. First of all I want to let you know that when you breathe it's really important |
| 2:46.2 | to release the tension in your stomach. Most of us walk around with our stomach sucked in because |
| 2:54.9 | we want to look a little trimmer. Well this actually causes more anxiety in your body because you're |
| 3:01.7 | not oxygenating your body. You're breathing so shallowly high up in your lungs that you're not |
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