1055 A Classic Meditation Technique
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The Jnana mudra is an ancient meditation technique that has become a classic representation of meditation.
This is part 4Â of a 7-Part Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life Series, Episodes 1052-1058.
As always, you don't have to do the meditation techniques -- they are simply there to help you transition from your busy day to a state of stillness. The techniques also help to calm "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.
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**All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any kind of medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy or clarity you may experience as you mediate!
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,055. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:11.0 | If you've been listening for a while, you are exploring ancient wisdom for |
| 0:18.0 | your modern life. That is the theme we've been exploring this entire week. |
| 0:24.4 | In every episode, you've discovered some of the rich traditions of meditation and learned how to use it in a way that |
| 0:38.7 | will work in your modern life. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm Mary Meckley and I share a different meditation technique every |
| 0:46.8 | day on the podcast and each technique is customized around a weekly theme. This allows you to explore a topic in |
| 0:56.0 | depth so that you can master the quality. And in today's episode I'm going to share with you a classic meditation technique. |
| 1:07.0 | This is a technique that you may have visualized yourself doing |
| 1:15.6 | before you started a meditation ritual. |
| 1:18.7 | When you thought of meditating, |
| 1:20.6 | you may have visualized yourself seated on the ground, legs crossed, maybe even with |
| 1:28.7 | your legs in the Lotus position, maybe you were really dreaming, or maybe you're very flexible and you actually |
| 1:36.8 | sit in the lotus position. |
| 1:39.8 | Whatever the case, you likely imagined yourself in a serene location, uninterrupted, experiencing this peace and calm instantly as you were seated and you may have |
| 2:00.0 | visualized yourself holding your fingers in a particular position where you |
| 2:07.4 | connect your thumb with your index finger. This is the classic way to hold your hands for many people in |
| 2:17.7 | meditation. So you may have soon realized after you started meditating that you meditate and sometimes things go beautifully, |
| 2:30.0 | but other times you're interrupted, your children may crawl all over you, or you are so distracted |
| 2:39.2 | you can't get the argument out of your mind that you had with someone earlier in the day or |
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