704 Stop Distracting Thoughts Breathing Technique
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode you'll discover a powerful breathing technique to help you stop distracting thoughts. You'll also discover a time proven technique to help you release distracting thoughts. Throughout this week's series you'll learn how to do meditation techniques to manage distracting thoughts. This is part 3 of a 7-Part Stop Distracting Thoughts Series, Episodes 703-709.
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.
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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 day on the podcast. And each technique is customized around a weekly theme. And in today's episode, episode 7004, you're going to be guided in a meditation to focus your breath, |
| 0:32.9 | to release distracting thoughts. |
| 0:35.7 | So our theme this week is stopping distracting thoughts in their tracks. |
| 0:43.3 | And every day we're exploring a different meditation technique to help you release distracting thoughts. |
| 0:52.3 | You can find all the techniques over at my website at sip and |
| 0:56.7 | oom.com. There you can go to the Stop Distracting Thoughts meditation series and you'll see |
| 1:05.0 | all the techniques and meditations and you may also join our free private Facebook group. |
| 1:15.0 | And to do that, probably the best way you can go on my website, of course, |
| 1:19.1 | in any resource section of any podcast or rather weekly series, |
| 1:25.9 | or many people send me a message on Sipanome's Facebook page saying, |
| 1:33.3 | hey, please add me to the private group, and I will gladly add you there. We do weekly challenges |
| 1:40.4 | customized around the weekly theme. So this week we are doing a release and stop your distracting |
| 1:49.6 | thoughts challenge. So I've also been leaving useful tips for you to practice this week as you do the Stop Distracting Thoughts Meditation series. |
| 2:07.6 | And I've been following an article from psychology today. |
| 2:14.8 | And I link to that article on the website so you can go ahead and take a look at that |
| 2:18.8 | and the article is your brain is nagging you here are five ways to make it stop and it goes |
| 2:30.7 | through and talks about researchers have discovered that our brains need completion. |
| 2:39.0 | So distracting thoughts are usually having to do with a sense of incompletion, something that you left undone, even something relatively minor that you might think is not such a big deal. |
| 2:58.0 | In fact, I shared where there were two groups of participants who were asked to complete a puzzle. |
| 3:06.8 | The first group, as they were complete a puzzle. The first group as they were |
| 3:09.3 | completing a puzzle they were taken away to work on another task which they were |
| 3:15.1 | allowed to complete and they were asked to make note of when they thought about |
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