1266 Thanksgiving Meditation
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Happy Thanksgiving! Gratitude meditation.
This is part 5 of a 7-Part How to Practice Gratitude, Episodes 1262-1268.
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.
***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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**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 meditate!
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,266. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | And happy Thanksgiving. If you live in the United States, today is Thanksgiving. |
| 0:19.0 | And we continue with our gratitude series. |
| 0:26.0 | In today's episode, you'll be guided |
| 0:30.0 | in a gratitude meditation to feel more love and you'll do this in a way to focus on being more playful and loving as you reflect on gratitude. This week as you go through the series I challenge you to |
| 0:58.8 | keep a gratitude journal where you reflect on what you're grateful for each day. |
| 1:06.6 | You could write three things you're grateful for each day as you start your day and you could |
| 1:16.7 | also end your day by thinking of three things you're grateful for. Imagine how happy and joyful you would feel as you |
| 1:31.0 | started your day and ended your day if you would do this simple practice. |
| 1:37.6 | And to put a twist on maintaining a gratitude journal, I want to share with you the concept of intrinsic motivation, |
| 1:50.0 | and that is you staying motivated from a deep desire within to complete any kind of goal you may have for yourself. |
| 2:06.4 | So one of the main ways to feel gratitude |
| 2:11.2 | is simply to do it, to express gratitude. gratitude is |
| 2:15.0 | and maintaining a gratitude journal is one way to do that. |
| 2:21.0 | Research shows that when you take a habit or a ritual you do on a regular |
| 2:28.0 | basis and you enhance it in a way that's playful and loving. |
| 2:36.8 | This can boost your happiness |
| 2:41.1 | and you feel much more grateful and loving yourself when you do this. |
| 2:47.0 | So if you think about this and apply it to maintaining a gratitude journal or even if you don't write down in a |
| 2:56.4 | journal if you even start your day or end your day by thinking within your mind what you're grateful for. |
| 3:07.2 | That's still incredibly valuable and to put a twist on it, to have a little fun with it, is by perhaps focusing on your favorite gratitude moment |
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