1375 Inner Freedom

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Ancient wisdom for your modern life.

This is part 1 of a 7-Part Freedom from Marcus Aurelius Meditation Series, Episodes 1375-1381.

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.

Sample from a selection of resources including:

*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.

If you'd like to receive fresh daily fully guided meditations 7 days a week you can subscribe to Slow Down Nation, a monthly subscription membership site and app. Not only do you receive a brand new daily fully guided meditation, you also receive access to over 1,000 meditations customized around weekly themes.

***All meditations are Mary Meckley's original copyrighted content unless otherwise stated, and may not be shared without her written permission.

Resources:

Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.

I'd love your feedback! Please let me know how you're enjoying the meditations by leaving me a review on iTunes.

To be guided in a daily meditation where you learn a different meditation technique customized around a weekly theme head over to www.SipandOm.com to subscribe to Slow Down Nation daily meditations guided by Mary Meckley.

Want to connect with other meditators from around the world who listen to the daily meditations? Join our free private Facebook Group at https://www.SipandOm.com.

**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!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I am a meditation teacher who shares a different
0:10.6	meditation technique on the podcast every single day and the techniques
0:18.3	are customized around a weekly theme and in today's episode which is episode six hundred and four you're going to
0:28.9	be guided in a meditation on this week's theme which is a little different than what I usually do.
0:37.3	We're going to be exploring a book called Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Now this is a famous book and you may have heard of it or you may have read it and it's not
0:57.2	really about meditation but it is a very thought-provoking book.
1:07.5	The book was written by Marcus Aurelius and he wrote 12 books of the meditations and he did these books as a
1:21.3	source for his own guidance and self-improvement.
1:26.2	So they were kind of like his personal reflections and his diary.
1:31.6	In fact, he didn't make these public at all. They were his private writings. Now,
1:37.9	Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and these were just simply private notes to himself and what I
1:49.9	really like about this book is that it follows stoicism. Now this is a school of Hellenistic philosophy
1:59.4	and it was founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early third century BC and I love what the Stoics
2:10.9	taught they taught that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment and the
2:18.4	active relationship between cosmic determinism and human freedom and they really had a strong belief in
2:29.0	your will as in accordance with nature.
2:35.0	And that's very similar to how I share a lot of the meditations on this podcast a lot of our weekly themes are based on
2:49.6	being your best self-improvement and so you can take it as far and as deep as you want but
2:58.1	I like to give you some context in each meditation on how to live a good life and how to be joyful, how to be happy,
3:08.8	and how to make good judgments despite what you're going through. And so this is what the Stoics believed.
3:16.7	So I'm going to be sharing with you this week passages that stood out for me. There are many famous passages in this book, but I'm going to share some passages that kind of stood out for me as I went through the book and as I mentioned you may have your own favorite passages.
3:37.0	Now if you'd like to participate in a meditation challenge based on this book of meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
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