#574 A Joyful New Year's Day Meditation 2016
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2016
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year 2016! Today is the first day of a brand new year. You have 8,760 hours this year. How will you make the most of them to enrich your life? This meditation will help you focus on what you want to bring into your life this year as you select a theme for your whole year and apply it to the major areas of your life. I recommend you have a candle and a fireproof dish on hand, as well as two strips of paper and something to write with. I also encourage you to do this meditation outdoors if possible. This is part 6 of a 7-Part Meditations on Joy, Episodes 569-575. 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 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: 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.. Want to connect with other meditators from around the world who listen to the daily meditations? Join our free private Facebook Group. Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller. Want to connect with other meditators from around the world who listen to the daily meditations? Join our free private Facebook Group at www.SipandOm.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast. I'm Mary Megley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different meditation technique every single day customized around a weekly theme. And in today's episode, which is episode 575, I want to wish you a happy new year. |
| 0:28.3 | This is the first day of a brand new year. |
| 0:34.7 | What will you do with it? |
| 0:37.1 | What will you make of this year? It's a clean slate for you. |
| 0:43.8 | So in today's guided meditation, you're going to be guided as you set an intention for the new |
| 0:51.0 | year. Now, you may have done the New Year's Eve meditation yesterday, and that was a |
| 0:59.6 | meditation on closure, putting closure on the year 2015 as you enter into the year 2016 today. |
| 1:10.2 | I hope you had a beautiful New Year's last night and that you're |
| 1:14.6 | ready to begin a brand new year. So as you do so, I'd like to encourage you again to have a candle. |
| 1:25.3 | There's something about candlelight, fire. |
| 1:30.6 | We have a primordial fascination with it and it gives us a sense of sacredness. |
| 1:38.7 | And as you begin a new year and set your intentions, this will influence the whole rest of your year. |
| 1:48.0 | And I also encourage you to have a journal nearby, any kind of notebook or some place to write |
| 1:57.0 | down your intentions. And then I encourage you to keep your intentions near you |
| 2:05.3 | where you can see them often throughout the year. You might want to put them in your meditation |
| 2:12.1 | space or on your nightstand or somewhere where you're likely to see them often to remind you |
| 2:20.2 | of what intention you set for this year. |
| 2:26.6 | So go ahead and get nice and settled in your meditation space, make your body comfortable, and strain your spine. I encourage you to sit |
| 2:38.2 | up during this meditation, and again, I encourage you to go outside and do this meditation, |
| 2:46.3 | just as I hoped that you would do last night, and I heard from several of you telling me that |
| 2:53.2 | we're outside and had an amazing meditation as you connected with nature all around you. |
| 3:01.2 | So as you settle in, let's go ahead and relax the different areas of your body just as we |
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