Living Life Mindfully
Hello and welcome to 'Mindful Living for Professional Women,' the podcast where we explore empowering ways to navigate life's challenges with grace and mindfulness.
I’m Becca Reay, a mindfulness teacher, practitioner, and clinical EFT therapist. With over 30 years of experience in helping women find balance and peace, I’m here to guide you on a journey to a more mindful, fulfilling life.
This podcast is tailored for professional women educators, especially those navigating the transformative stages of peri-menopause and menopause.
Join us as we dive into topics like managing stress, understanding emotions, enhancing communication, overcoming procrastination, and setting meaningful goals. Each episode connects these topics with mindfulness practices and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to support your journey.
Whether you're looking to cultivate daily habits that foster emotional awareness or seeking tools to handle anxiety and stress, this podcast offers practical advice and guided exercises to help you thrive personally and professionally.
Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. Together, we’ll explore how to embrace mindfulness and EFT to live your best, most balanced life.
In our next episode, we’ll be discussing the power of gratitude and how to integrate it into your daily routine for a more positive mindset.
Thank you for joining me on this journey. Let’s get started!"
Living Life Mindfully
Calm your breathing
When overwhelm and stress affect the breathing we can slow down our breathing cycle to relax the mind and body.
When you begin to feel rising pressure and emotions due to overwhelm and stress, your breathing often becomes shallow and moves to the upper chest. This shallow breathing signals to the brain that you're in a stress response, triggering the body’s fight-or-flight mode. To avoid going into panic, it's important to signal to both the mind and body to relax. Calming the nervous system helps regulate emotions and physical sensations. When you slow and deepen your breathing, it sends a signal to the brain that the situation is safe, reducing the release of stress hormones and allowing the body to return to a state of balance