This is episode 1,600 and one.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

How are you doing today?

I hope you're enjoying our series this week where we're focusing on the theme of

releasing bad habits. In today's episode you're going to be guided using a breathing technique.

Breathing techniques are one of the most powerful ways to instantly calm your mind and body.

And I'll also share some insight to help you release your bad habit.

And I encourage you this week

to focus on maybe one bad habit you would like to start chipping away at and take

small steps daily to work towards releasing this particular bad habit.

And I did a little research on how to get rid of bad habits. The research mentioned again and again how triggers were usually the cause of a bad habit.

Usually the most effective triggers, whether supporting you or working towards your detriment, in the case of a bad habit, were emotional triggers. So you might think about the emotions surrounding

your bad habit. For example, maybe your bad habit is reaching for food when you feel stressed, or becoming

angry lashing out at others when you feel stressed.

And so you want to replace, let's say, your food grabbing habit with a habit that supports your health. You want to exercise

and work out more when you are stressed.

So you want to replace reaching for food with exercising and fitness. So the next time you feel stressed you think about

hmm maybe I'll walk around the block or maybe I'll watch a YouTube video that's doing some

kind of 10 minute fitness that I could follow easily.

Or maybe you know of some exercises that you could just start doing right away. And that can help you. But if you take it a step further and

become even more emotionally involved in your new goal, your new habit,

you might think about if you're running for example well I'm going to be running

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