In this episode, Hazel Buckley @theyogatreehazel joins me to talk about how meditation can help us to manage our emotional health. Emotional health is one of the three key components of self-care, alongside physical and social health.

Hazel is a mother of 3 and runs a very successful yoga practice, retreats and last year officially launched “The Yoga Tree Community” app that has a holistic approach to health from physical exercise with yoga to meditation to nutrition.

Emotional health in simple terms is about how we manage negative emotions like stress, anger and anxiety. Christmas can be a stressful time as emotions run high. Our children are out of their routine and are over-stimulated.

In this podcast we talk about how simple breathing exercises can activate our parasympathetic nervous system when we are stressed and move us from a fight or flight to a rest and digest state.

Having a tool like meditation to help us to manage stress may be the best gift you give yourself this Christmas.