#435 Gratitude Walking Meditation
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2015
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Walking Meditation on Gratitude. We continue our meditation series on cultivating gratitude. In today's meditation you'll be guided in cultivating gratitude as you do a walking meditation. It's not always possible to get out there and walk so you can do the meditation seated as well. I encourage you to open a window to connect with the outdoors if you do the meditation inside. 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 6 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 in a walking meditation on gratitude. |
| 0:10.7 | And this is episode 445. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:19.3 | This is Mary Meckley, and I honor you for showing up for yourself today. |
| 0:24.4 | And I'm excited to share today's guided walking meditation on gratitude with you. |
| 0:30.9 | Now this is the final part of a seven-part meditation series on gratitude. |
| 0:36.9 | And you can head back through the different |
| 0:39.2 | meditations right before this one to explore a different meditation technique on gratitude. |
| 0:46.1 | Now, you don't have to do the meditation techniques. You can still do the meditation |
| 0:51.0 | just without doing the meditation techniques. But if you do the meditation techniques, you may be surprised at how your meditations |
| 1:01.0 | kind of go up a notch or two, because the techniques work a lot like yoga or acupressure |
| 1:10.0 | works where it affects your body and mind on a deep level. |
| 1:15.6 | So you reach your consciousness on many different levels when you use the different meditation techniques. |
| 1:20.6 | Plus I like to share meditation techniques because I know that for myself, I use the techniques often, every day, all day long, to help me during my times of greatest need, which are not when I'm seated meditating. |
| 1:39.3 | There when I'm right in the midst of my busy day and maybe something hectic or stressful is going on. |
| 1:48.5 | And so I do a meditation technique to help me become more attuned to my true inner nature. |
| 1:56.3 | It's so easy to be pulled away by distractions and overwhelm and by stress triggers can really wreak |
| 2:05.7 | havoc on your emotions. And so when you use meditation techniques, especially if you suffer |
| 2:12.5 | from anxiety or depression, and if you don't sleep well, these techniques work beautifully for that. |
| 2:20.3 | These techniques are very beneficial for you if you really do have a few challenges |
| 2:27.3 | managing how you respond to stress. |
| 2:30.3 | So we begin our walking meditations the exact same way we begin all our meditations and that's where we |
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