#1298 Day 2: Joy Reset - "Awaken to Joy Celebration Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Awaken to Joy, a bonus celebration series created as a gift to you—especially for seasons of reflection, renewal, and fresh beginnings. These longer guided meditations invite you to slow down, soften your shoulders, and return to what's steady and bright within.
Each episode weaves gentle breath, soothing guidance, and a simple affirmation you can carry into your day: "I awaken to my inner joy." Whether you're celebrating, healing, or simply craving a moment of peace, these meditations are here to help you reconnect with calm, gratitude, and the quiet happiness that lives beneath the noise.
Press play, get comfortable, and let this bonus series support you—one longer, nourishing practice at a time.
This is day 2 of a 7-day meditation series, "Awaken to Joy Celebration Meditations," episodes 1297-1303.
ABOUT THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION JOURNEY:
As the year gently comes to a close, this special episode of Awaken to Joy Celebration Meditations invites you into a sacred pause. Between this week's celebrations of Christmas and Hanukkah, and any other spiritual celebrations, light and love are celebrated in different ways—but the invitation is the same: to slow down, reflect, and soften into gratitude.
This special bonus episode of Awaken to Joy is part of a meditation series I recorded a few years ago—created not for a moment in time, but for moments like this. As the year draws to a close and the light of celebration fills the season, I wanted to offer this meditation as a gift of gratitude to you, my listeners.
These reflections are timeless by design—an invitation to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with peace, gratitude, and inner light. Whether you're celebrating, resting, or simply needing a pause, this meditation is my way of saying thank you for being here.
May it bring you calm, comfort, and gentle joy as one year ends and another begins.
✨ With deep gratitude,
✨ A moment of stillness, just for you
✨ A new beginning softly forming.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE: "The Unconditional Joy Challenge"
This week, your mission is to share unconditional joy with 3 people daily:
- someone you know
- a stranger
- and someone who is difficult in your life (you've got this)
THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION JOURNEY
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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to Mary@sipandom.com.Let go of repetitive negative thoughts.
The beach waves were composed by Mike Koenig.
Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,298. Welcome to your daily guided meditation. And I want to welcome you to |
| 0:13.1 | the affirmation for this week to focus on every morning and every evening before you go to bed. And that is, |
| 0:25.6 | I awaken my inner joy. I awaken my inner joy. Now, when you consider this affirmation, |
| 0:34.8 | think about how you would actually awaken your inner joy. I want to share |
| 0:42.5 | with you some information from QZ.com and it's Google's former happiness guru developed a three-second brain exercise for finding joy. |
| 1:00.0 | And so this was, I hope I'm pronouncing this correctly, Cheyed Meng Tan, a former engineer who joined Google in 2000 as employee number 107. |
| 1:16.7 | And he actually played an instrumental role in building Google's mobile search function, |
| 1:24.8 | among other things that he did there. |
| 1:27.9 | But he was better known for the mindfulness classes he later led for employees. |
| 1:36.3 | So this is something that he did right along with his engineering. |
| 1:45.9 | He also led these mindfulness classes. |
| 1:48.8 | And he wrote a book called Joy on Demand. |
| 1:52.4 | And he describes how he noticed in his mid-20s that he wasn't stuck with self-loathing and all the pain and negativity that he had experienced |
| 2:12.1 | previously in his life. He said that he used to be constantly miserable, but that he noticed he was becoming a |
| 2:22.7 | happier guy. And he discovered for himself that temperament is malleable. And he noticed that with |
| 2:33.9 | himself, what seemed to make the difference as to transforming his life from what he describes as a miserable person to be a happy guy. |
| 2:50.3 | And how he did this is by recognizing what he terms as thin slices of joy. |
| 3:00.7 | So he describes this as brief little moments that give you immediate relief in some way and you keep applying those |
| 3:12.1 | mini moments and it's like compound interest it adds up to massive change so he gives the |
| 3:21.1 | example if you're really thirsty when you take a drink of water, even one |
| 3:27.8 | drink of water, your thirst becomes quenched. And he said the same goes for if you're starving |
| 3:36.0 | and you eat something, you feel relief. If you go from a hot outdoor environment |
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