Yoga Breathing Technique to Balance Emotions

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

One of the best ways to improve your level of stress is by improving the way you breathe. How you breathe does make a big difference in how you manage your emotional health. This week we launch into a series designed to improve your emotional and physical health by improving your lung capacity. You'll be guided using a different breathing technique every day. Think of this week's series are your personal Breathing Bootcamp. If you suffer from asthma or COPD, or if you are recovering from COVID19 Coronavirus, this week's breathing techniques may be especially beneficial for you. (As always, with any meditation technique, you want to make sure to check with your medical doctor). THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Practice the breathing exercises every day for a few minutes and eventually build up to doing them for 5-10 minutes a day. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I am." Breathing - Belly Breath Mudra - Push Paputa - release fear Chakra - 3rd - zest for life Herb - Lobelia - lung health Yoga Asana - Vrikasana - Tree Pose

This is part 4 of a 7-part Breathing Workshop for Emotional + Physical Health, episodes 1038-1044.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 1,051 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.
0:21.0	In today's episode we continue with our breathing boot camp or exploring this week
0:28.8	where in each episode you discover a breathing technique that is going to help calm your mind
0:37.8	and body. And these are techniques you can do on or off your meditation cushion or chair wherever you meditate and
0:47.0	they really help you to be able to manage your emotional state.
0:55.0	Your breath and your emotional state are interconnected.
1:01.0	So when you're able to calm your breath, your mind and body naturally
1:08.5	calm down, you'll notice this also with your voice.
1:14.2	When you slow down your rate of speech
1:20.0	and you speak more calmly, you'll notice that you breathe more evenly and more slowly and you also feel calmer.
1:35.0	So by combining your breath and your voice,
1:41.0	when you are in the moment feeling tense or anxious or fearful or really
1:47.0	feeling triggered by stress you can calm your voice and calm your breath at the same time and you'll notice such
1:58.4	a big difference in how you do manage your emotional state.
2:04.4	It doesn't mean that your stress will go away.
2:08.4	Many times people think that when you meditate,
2:12.4	you shouldn't get angry, you shouldn't get angry you shouldn't get anxious or afraid and that's
2:18.8	really not the case because we all are human and we all experience the same human emotions ongoing
2:29.2	throughout our days but we can manage our emotions in a better way. And even when you find that you lash out
2:41.0	or your anger erupts, you're able to calm yourself faster. So instead of letting your emotions
2:51.6	fester and even escalate, you will notice that you're able to calm yourself
3:00.5	and come back to a place of stillness by processing your emotions in a better way.
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