994 Focus Your Mind + Motherwort Tea
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Meditation techniques to focus your mind and the benefits of motherwort tea.
This is part 6 of a 7-Part Good Habits to Live Your Life By Meditation series, Episodes 989-995.
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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*a Free Instant Calm Breathing Technique
*a Free Guide to Get Started Meditating.
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**All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any kind of medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy or clarity you may experience as you mediate!
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 994. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | I welcome you today as you continue exploring our theme for this week. |
| 0:16.5 | We always explore a particular theme all week long, |
| 0:20.2 | and in this week we're exploring how to cultivate rituals and habits that you need. |
| 0:29.6 | That will make a big difference in your life. And this is part six of this seven parts week long |
| 0:36.4 | series and in today's episode you're going to be guided using a meditation technique to help you focus. So today's |
| 0:48.6 | technique will be a technique you can use when you start to feel as though you're losing your motivation |
| 1:00.0 | for continuing with this ritual or habit you want to create. |
| 1:04.5 | And so this is a technique that will help you focus. |
| 1:09.8 | You'll also discover a way to not take yourself so seriously as you go about the series. |
| 1:18.6 | Sometimes meditation can be a little heavy and you can start to feel as though you're just taking yourself |
| 1:27.8 | maybe a little too seriously. |
| 1:30.5 | And I think it's so important not to feel intimidated by your own meditation ritual. |
| 1:37.0 | Now this might seem odd, but a lot of people that I work with or that are new to meditation, they tell me that they feel |
| 1:47.4 | a little foolish sitting down to meditate because they feel like they just don't know what to do or they're not doing |
| 1:55.7 | something right and they'll just never get the hang of it or they'll feel like |
| 2:01.2 | they're just not at a time in their life where they can really sit down |
| 2:06.2 | to meditate because there's so much going on and they feel like everything kind of needs |
| 2:12.2 | to be so perfect when they create a meditation |
| 2:16.7 | ritual. |
| 2:17.7 | Well, I don't want you to feel that way. |
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