1165 Affirmation to Free Yourself from Difficult Emotions
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Repeat an affirmation to free yourself from difficult emotions.
This is part 2 of a 7-Part Path to Happiness with the Ancient Stoics series Episodes 1164-1170.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,165. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I share a different meditation technique every day here on the podcast and I |
| 0:19.2 | honor you for giving yourself this time to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. |
| 0:30.0 | And in today's episode you're going to be guided using a meditation technique called an affirmation. |
| 0:44.0 | An affirmation is a positive statement you repeat to yourself |
| 0:50.0 | to help you focus your thoughts. |
| 0:54.0 | And this is important because you are going to think of something, |
| 1:01.0 | so you may as well train your thoughts to support you the way you want |
| 1:08.1 | them to and so often the case is that we don't really focus our thoughts, we can even let our thoughts drift over to someone else's agenda to where someone will say something to us and get us involved in a conversation and you may feel like pretty soon you are thinking just like that person. |
| 1:42.0 | In fact, there's a popular saying that's worth repeating that you |
| 1:48.3 | are the sum of the five people you spend most of your time with. You start to think the way they do, you start to act the way they do, you may even start to dress or adopt habits like those five people who you most |
| 2:09.6 | often spend your time with. So think of your thoughts as programming yourself in a certain way. So as you continue with this week's series, our series is all about the path to inner happiness with wisdom from the ancient |
| 2:39.4 | Stoics. And I'll be comparing Stoicism to meditation because I think the two intertwine beautifully. So the ancient Stoics and the two I'm focusing on primarily in this |
| 3:00.7 | series are Stoics you may have heard about |
| 3:06.0 | and they're making a comeback these days you could say |
| 3:12.0 | and that is Marcus Aurelius, a former Roman emperor and |
| 3:17.0 | Seneca who was actually a teacher of the infamous Nero. That was before Nero became really corrupt, but Seneca was a philosopher in his time and he also wrote a lot of dramas and he had kind of a colorful past. |
| 3:42.0 | And he had kind of a colorful past, but in the end he had some good things to share. |
| 3:51.3 | So the Stoics believed that freedom had to do more with your thoughts, what |
| 4:01.1 | you thought. In fact in Rome there was slavery and they thought of a slave |
| 4:10.9 | as being able to be even freer than someone who was not a slave, |
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