1115 Happiness Challenge
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Cultivate happiness everyday with a happiness challenge.
This is part 1 of a 7-Part Happiness Challenge series Episodes 1115-1121.
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.
For free meditation tools to help you start meditating please head over to my website at www.SipandOm.com, and there you'll find a multitude of free resources to help you on your Meditation Journey.
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*a Free Private Facebook Group to connect with meditators from around the world
*a Free Meditation Bundle to get started meditating
*a Free Sleep Technique to Sleep Better
*a Free Instant Calm Breathing Technique
*a Free Guide to Get Started Meditating.
 If you'd like to receive fresh daily fully guided meditations 7 days a week you can subscribe to Slow Down Nation, a monthly subscription membership site and app. Not only do you receive a brand new daily fully guided meditation, you also receive access to over 800 meditations customized around weekly themes.Â
***All meditations are Mary Meckley's original copyrighted content unless otherwise stated, and may not be shared without her written permission.
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Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.
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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 1115. Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. And I want to welcome you to a brand new series we're launching today and this is our week-long series. |
| 0:20.0 | We'll be exploring a challenge this week. |
| 0:25.0 | This is a challenge for you to focus on every single day, |
| 0:30.0 | and the challenge is happiness. And this is a challenge by special request from a listener who listens in from the southernmost Japanese island of Okinawa. |
| 0:49.4 | And she listens with her nine-year-old son and the fenlistening I believe she said since this past |
| 0:56.9 | January and she had this request because she's living on this |
| 1:04.4 | island far far away from her home. |
| 1:08.6 | And her mother was just visiting her. |
| 1:12.3 | And her mother stayed for two months visiting and then when she returned back to the states, |
| 1:21.4 | she felt this sense of sadness. |
| 1:26.0 | And so instead of focusing on a sadness series, |
| 1:32.0 | as she requested I decided to do a happiness series and to create |
| 1:40.2 | happiness challenge so I hope you enjoy this week's series and I'm Mary Meckley. I |
| 1:47.4 | share a different meditation technique every day here on the podcast and as I mentioned the techniques are always |
| 1:57.2 | customized around a theme we explore in depth for a week and this allows you to really master particular qualities in your life. |
| 2:10.2 | So in regard to your happiness challenge, I want you to think first about what happiness means to you because you can set yourself up for failure immediately |
| 2:29.9 | as you get started on this challenge, when you put different expectations on yourself in regard to happiness, |
| 2:40.0 | these conditions can make you feel as though you'll never be happy because you can have these |
| 2:51.0 | expectations that are unrealistic or it could even be |
| 2:59.3 | something you think you need or want in your life, but it really doesn't make you that happy. |
| 3:07.0 | Research shows that when people are asked what it is that would make them happy, |
| 3:19.3 | most people overwhelmingly say that if they had just 10% more of what they already |
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