Affirmation to Challenge Narratives Your Tell Yourself, Day 2: "The Fire Within: Meditations on Anger, Power, and Purpose"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We launch into a brand new series to reclaim your power by releasing anger and worry. I'm sharing with you a few BONUS episodes that are part of the Sip and Om Meditation app. I hope you enjoy the series as much as I enjoy creating it for you!
Psychologists have found that our anger is often not a direct result of an event, but of the story we tell ourselves about it. Our interpretations, assumptions, and judgments are the fuel that turns a minor spark into a consuming fire.
Daily Challenge: When you find yourself replaying a moment that made you angry, simply label the thought "story." Practice letting go of the narrative and coming back to the present moment.
WELCOME TO THIS WEEK'S SERIES:
THE FIRE WITHIN: MEDITATIONS ON ANGER, POWER, AND PURPOSE
Welcome to "The Fire Within: Meditations on Anger, Power, and Purpose"
In a world that often tells us to "just let go," "The Fire Within" challenges the conventional wisdom about anger. This isn't a series about suppressing or escaping your feelings. Instead, it is a guided journey to sit with your anger, to understand it, and to transform its intense energy from a destructive force into a potent catalyst for growth. Over seven episodes, you will learn to listen to what your anger is truly telling you, to reclaim your power from reactivity, and to forge a path forward with courage and clarity. This is a series for those ready to confront the uncomfortable truth of their emotions and emerge with an unshakable inner strength.
This is day 1 of a 7-day meditation series, "The Fire Within: Meditations on Anger, Power, and Purpose," episodes 3353-3359.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE
Calming the Flame Quest:
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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected].Let go of repetitive negative thoughts.
The beach waves were composed by Mike Koenig.
Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 3,354 of your daily guided meditation. |
| 0:09.6 | I welcome you as you explore a series that helps you tame the fire within. |
| 0:19.1 | This is a series about meditations on anger, power, and purpose. And in today's |
| 0:28.3 | episode, you will be guided with today's featured meditation technique. And on day two, that is |
| 0:35.3 | always an affirmation. And affirmation is a positive or affirmative |
| 0:42.8 | statement that helps you to focus your thoughts you could really be thinking about anything |
| 0:50.8 | and what you think about has an impact on how you feel and your actions, how you live |
| 1:00.9 | your life. So when you consciously select a goal that you want to focus on as you go throughout your day. |
| 1:13.0 | And affirmation can help center you in what that goal is. |
| 1:18.2 | And for me, and as I share the weekly series with you, for me, my goal each week is |
| 1:26.9 | the theme I'm exploring, that I'm weaving into my life. |
| 1:33.4 | That's why I share a theme with you every week. |
| 1:37.5 | And every day, I experiment with and apply meditation techniques that help to reinforce that theme. |
| 1:48.1 | So my goal this week is how to manage my states of anger so that I feel empowered and I'm focused on my purpose. So as I guide you each week in a meditation |
| 2:10.5 | using the affirmation, day two of a series, you repeat the affirmation in several different ways. You repeat it out loud. |
| 2:23.2 | This really awakens your consciousness. Your voice, the power of your voice, the process of speaking |
| 2:33.0 | something with intention is one of the most powerful ways |
| 2:38.9 | to focus on the affirmation. And then you experiment with a couple rounds of repeating the affirmation |
| 2:49.5 | in your natural speaking voice as though you own it, |
| 2:54.4 | as though you are already living the essence of the affirmation. |
| 3:01.1 | Then you repeat it in a whisper. |
| 3:05.4 | And this is where you feel the meaning of the affirmation close to your heart. |
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