#432 Gratitude Meditation With Ganesha Mudra
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Meditation on Gratitude. We continue our meditation series on cultivating gratitude. Today's meditation technique is the Ganesha Mudra to create an expansive feeling within. As always, you don't have to do the meditation technique -- 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. This is Part 4 of a 7-Part Meditation Series on Gratitude, Episodes 428-434. I created this week's meditation series while in Arizona where I'm right around the corner from the Grand Canyon. It's pretty hard to look at the Grand Canyon and not feel expansive. Six million years of the earth's evolution are exposed in layers of rock right before your eyes. When you contrast the expansiveness of the Grand Canyon with the moment in time you are living right now, it helps put the worries and cares of today into perspective. I'm pretty sure that's why people from all over the world crowd along the rim of the Grand Canyon peering down into the exposed history of the earth. For many of those people the Grand Canyon reminds them that the big issues they face today aren't so daunting when they consider the challenges they've managed throughout the whole of their life. But you don't have to travel to the Grand Canyon to gain perspective on your life. Cultivating gratitude can give you ongoing perspective on the value of your life. Gratitude has been know to improve health, heal relationships, increase wealth, cure depression and lay addictions to rest. Enjoy this meditation series on gratitude. In Sunday's meditation, Episode #428, I share Jack Kornfield's beautiful meditation on gratitude from his book, "The Art of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness and Peace." 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 100-Day Meditation Quest you can join *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. Resources: "The Art of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness and Peace," by Jack Cornfield Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the daily meditation podcast, and in today's episode, you're going to be guided using a mudra, often referred to as yoga in your hands, as you're guided in a meditation on gratitude. |
| 0:15.9 | You don't have to do the mudra to do this meditation. |
| 0:18.6 | And this is episode 432. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. This is Mary Meckley and I honor you for showing up for yourself as you meditate. |
| 0:38.3 | You are doing one of the best things you could possibly do for yourself as you sit down and meditate. |
| 0:46.3 | And in today's meditation, you're going to be guided in a meditation on gratitude. |
| 0:53.3 | Our theme this week is gratitude. |
| 0:55.0 | And every Wednesday, today happens to be for a Wednesday's meditation, |
| 1:01.0 | I share a mudra. |
| 1:03.0 | Moodras are meditation techniques that you can do any time throughout the day, |
| 1:09.0 | and they're just simply a way you can position your hands. |
| 1:13.6 | In this case, we'll be positioning our hands in a certain way. |
| 1:19.6 | And this can help you to experience the meditation at a much deeper level. |
| 1:26.6 | And I encourage you to try mudras if you haven't tried them before because you never |
| 1:32.3 | quite know what will work for you as you sit down and meditate. |
| 1:36.3 | I remember that I never really explored mudras or chakras for about a decade after I had been meditating and then I suddenly became |
| 1:48.2 | open to them and I couldn't believe that I'd missed out on them for all those years. So just give |
| 1:54.8 | it a try. No, you don't have to do the mudra in order to receive the benefit. But I will have a photo of me doing the mudra on my website at sipanome.com so you can see how |
| 2:09.4 | it's done there. And I'll, of course, explain how to do it in this episode. |
| 2:17.2 | Now you can also find all the meditation techniques for this week's meditation series |
| 2:22.8 | at Sipin'om.com. |
| 2:25.1 | That's my website. |
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