1298 Affirmation for Joy
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Awaken to joy by consistently attuning to small moments of happiness.
This is part 2 of a 7-Part Embrace Joy Journey, Episodes 1297-1303.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,298. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | And welcome to our series this week. |
| 0:10.0 | We're exploring all about joy. As you explore this series you'll |
| 0:17.0 | discover meditation techniques you can do as you meditate or as you go about your busy days. You can do these techniques |
| 0:28.0 | easily fitting them into your day when you're managing stress triggers and the technique I'll share with you |
| 0:38.5 | today is an affirmation. This is an affirmation to help you cultivate joy. And as you repeat |
| 0:49.9 | this affirmation I want to share a little insight with you. This is from |
| 0:56.8 | QZ.com or courts. It is a blog and they have an article there titled Google's former happiness |
| 1:08.0 | guru developed a three second brain exercise for finding joy. And this is in regard to, and I hope I am |
| 1:19.2 | pronouncing his name correctly, Chade Ming Tan, a former engineer who joined Google in 2000 as employee number 107 and he was an engineer there who helped to build Google's mobile search function among other |
| 1:47.7 | technical feeds but in fact he's better known for the mindfulness classes that he led employees in while he was there. |
| 2:01.2 | And what are the techniques that he does to help him to feel happiness he |
| 2:09.4 | shares in his book called Joy on demand and in this book he talks about how when he was younger he was younger he was what he |
| 2:21.6 | considers constantly miserable. |
| 2:27.0 | Well, he evolved to become what he is now, incredibly happy. |
| 2:35.0 | So when he determined what might have contributed to his happiness. |
| 2:44.0 | He discovered that the brain was malleable. |
| 2:49.0 | And in doing so, he noticed that what he focused on started to show up in his life and that this was an ongoing slow process. It wasn't something that happened immediately overnight. And he said that successfully |
| 3:10.2 | reshaping your mindset doesn't really have to do with hours of therapy. |
| 3:17.0 | It has to do in his case with mental exercises and he likes to consider these mental exercises as thin |
| 3:28.7 | slices of joy. So let me explain this to you a little more and I want you to keep this in |
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