1136 Simplicity
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Experience greater happiness without adding anything more to your life.
This is part 1 of a 7-Part SimplicityMeditation series Episodes 1136-1142.
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.
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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 1,136. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | And I welcome you to a brand new series we're launching into all about simplicity and in |
| 0:18.9 | this series you're going to be guided using different meditation techniques to help you simplify your life. In a way to experience greater happiness and well-being without adding anything more. |
| 0:44.0 | So, simplifying your life without adding anything additional to what you already have. In fact, in today's episode, I'd like you to consider |
| 1:00.7 | the excess in your life. I'm Mary Meckley and I share a different |
| 1:07.8 | meditation technique every day on the podcast and each technique is customized around a theme we explore for a |
| 1:17.6 | full week that way you can really master a particular quality in your life and as you're guided through the |
| 1:28.9 | meditation series this week I have a challenge for you. I always issue you a challenge for each week. |
| 1:38.0 | And your challenge for this week is a little unusual. You may think it is a little unusual and the challenge is for |
| 1:50.4 | you to consider what you could do to pursue voluntary hardship this week. |
| 2:00.0 | And what I mean by voluntary hardship is very similar to what the Stoics of ancient Greece and Italy followed in regard to simplicity. Now if you're not familiar with the Stoics, |
| 2:22.1 | Stoicism is considered a school of Hellenistic philosophy and |
| 2:29.2 | it was very popular throughout Rome and Greece until about the third century AD. |
| 2:39.0 | And Stoicism is considered to be a way where you simply become the best who you can be. |
| 2:50.0 | And that's the way that I like to share meditation with you is a way for you to reach and |
| 2:55.8 | tap into the best part of who you are. |
| 3:00.9 | And so the Stoics believed that the path to happiness for humans is found in |
| 3:09.2 | accepting what we've been given in life and not allowing ourselves to be controlled by our own desires or by our fears or by our pain and that if we could use our logic to |
| 3:29.8 | understand the world around us, then this would help us to become a better citizen of the |
| 3:38.7 | world as well as to become a happier person. |
| 3:42.6 | And Seneca was someone who was a famous Stoic, |
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