610 Keeping Calm in a Crisis
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Be guided in a meditation to keep calm in a crisis. I relay to you what I did recently to cultivate calm in a crisis. 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. 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 |
| 0:07.3 | shares a different meditation technique every day on the podcast and every technique is customized |
| 0:15.2 | around a weekly theme. And in today's episode, episode 610, we continue with the final episode in this week-long series of meditations by Marcus Aurelius. |
| 0:31.1 | Every single day this week, we've explored a passage from his book of meditations and I've customized a technique |
| 0:40.5 | to go along with each passage. |
| 0:45.8 | And I will say that some of you may have noticed that I'm getting this meditation out a day |
| 0:53.3 | later. So I always release the med out a day later. |
| 0:54.6 | So I always release the meditations a day ahead. |
| 0:58.9 | I live on the east coast of the U.S., but I always release a meditation a day ahead of time |
| 1:05.9 | for those people in Asia and Australia, New Zealand, and places where you're about 12 or more hours ahead of my time. |
| 1:14.6 | Well, I'm just getting this meditation out on the Saturday, so I'm still not technically late getting it out, |
| 1:21.1 | but I really like to get it out for those in the time zone ahead of me so they can listen to it on the day. |
| 1:29.2 | Right now it's getting to be evening in Asia and Australia. |
| 1:34.8 | So I happened to be in a car accident last night. |
| 1:40.8 | So I picked up my son from his school and I was stopped at a light and someone slammed |
| 1:46.8 | into me at full speed and the car in front of me I ended up slamming into them and I was scrunched |
| 1:56.4 | in between two cars. My car was completely totaled. I was injured a little bit. My son was also injured a |
| 2:04.7 | little bit, but I'm fine. Here I am recording this meditation for you. And I wanted to say |
| 2:14.3 | that I just had such an interesting experience through the whole process. |
| 2:19.5 | And I'm sure that if you've been through a car accident or some situation where, you know, |
| 2:26.2 | you're kind of in a really vulnerable position that you're probably shocked sometimes by how people treat you or the situation or things that go on. |
| 2:39.1 | And so I couldn't wait to come home and find out what Marcus Aurelius might have to say about my |
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