606 Breathing Technique to Start Your Day
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2016
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Be guided in a meditation to start your day with a customized breathing technique. This meditation is personalized from a reflection in the classic book, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, who was a Roman emperor who ruled from 161-180 A.D. You'll be guided using a breathing technique to make the most of your day. His reflections are based on Stoic philosophy which emphasizes living a peaceful life by practicing self control to attain inner peace by overcoming adversity, and honoring your true nature -- not forcing yourself to be a particular way. This is so aligned with how I share meditation so I'm excited about this week's series. This is part 3 of a 7-Part Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Episodes 604-610. 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 Meckley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different meditation technique every single day customized around a weekly theme. And our theme for this week in today's episode, which is episode 606, our theme is the |
| 0:27.5 | meditations of Marcus Aurelius. |
| 0:30.1 | Now Marcus Aurelius is a very historical figure. |
| 0:36.4 | His book became a classic timeless book that people are still reading and seeking wisdom from. |
| 0:44.5 | He was a Roman emperor and he lived during AD 121 through 180. |
| 0:53.9 | And he wrote this not as a book to be published. during AD 121 through 180. |
| 0:54.7 | And he wrote this not as a book to be published or dispersed and shared. |
| 1:01.9 | He wrote this simply as a diary, just reflections on life around him. |
| 1:08.9 | He wrote it not as a Roman emperor. He wrote it as a common man living in his time. |
| 1:17.8 | And you'll notice that what I share is truly timeless because it's still very relatable today. |
| 1:26.2 | And that's what's so beautiful about his book. |
| 1:30.1 | So what I've been doing is each day I've been reading just a section that kind of stood |
| 1:35.8 | out for me. |
| 1:36.5 | You could really take any one of his reflections, what are referred to as meditations |
| 1:44.0 | in his book. You could take any one of those and really |
| 1:48.3 | reflect on it. |
| 1:49.7 | I've just selected a few that kind of had some meaning to me or jumped out at me. |
| 1:56.8 | So as you get ready to do this meditation, I'll still be guiding you through the meditation |
| 2:04.9 | technique that I normally share for each day. |
| 2:08.0 | And this happens to be for a Tuesday's meditation. |
| 2:12.3 | Every Tuesday I share a breathing technique. |
| 2:15.6 | So I'm going to read a passage from Marcus Aurelius' meditations, |
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