Affirmation to Manage a Bad Mood, Day 2 Master Your Moods Meditation
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Let go of your worst moods with an affirmation to train your mind to master bad moods.
Welcome to the "Master Your Moods" 7-day meditation series. In this transformative journey, we will explore techniques and insights aimed at empowering you to take control of your emotional landscape. Backed by scientific research and ancient wisdom, each day will offer guided meditations and reflections to help you cultivate emotional resilience and inner balance.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
Go on a Mushin (No Mind) Quest:
Take part in Mushin and battle your moods like a samurai. Musashi Miyamoto is considered to be one of Japan's fiercest and most celebrated samurais. He was known to advocate for the concept of mushin, or "no-mind," in combat. It involves acting without conscious thought, free from hesitation, fear, or distraction. By training himself to enter into a state of mushin during duels and battles, Musashi could maintain emotional equilibrium and react instinctively to his opponents' movements.
A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:
You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.
FREE TOOLS:
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.
Enjoy access to more than 3,000 guided meditations without ads on the Sip and Om app. Try it for 7 days of free access to the full app!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 3,034 of your daily meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm |
| 0:09.3 | honored to share with you today's meditation insight, exploring the rich history and different |
| 0:18.1 | philosophies of yoga and meditation, and finally your guided meditation. meditation and |
| 0:25.0 | every day we focus on a specific technique and on day two of a series we focus on an |
| 0:30.0 | series we focus on an affirmation and the affirmation you're going to be |
| 0:36.5 | guided with today is an actual samurai affirmation now the theme this week is mastering moods and |
| 0:47.6 | no one mastered their moods quite as well as the ancient samurai of Japan. In fact, they led a unique lifestyle where they practice |
| 0:58.6 | the tactics of warfare and strategy, yet they also placed equal importance on refining their inner life, which included |
| 1:10.6 | meditation, art, poetry, and when I lived in Japan, I often spent my weekends in the mountains surrounding |
| 1:21.9 | Tokyo. I lived in Tokyo and I would go to a lot of the mountain retreats where the samurai used to live and train and practice their more meditative arts and this inspired me greatly. |
| 1:41.5 | So I want to share with you the affirmation for today and it's all about |
| 1:49.2 | accepting both light and as they called it shadow with equanimity. So they train themselves |
| 1:59.3 | not to distinguish between the two. The moments of your life will bring light and |
| 2:06.7 | shadow and we have to go through the shadow just as much as we welcome and embrace the light. And so the |
| 2:16.6 | ancient samurai trained themselves through their rituals and practice to be able to accept both light and shadow with equanimity |
| 2:28.0 | without trying to push aside the shadow or have the light linger. |
| 2:36.0 | They embraced both experiences as an indelible part of life. |
| 2:42.0 | And this is my greatest wish for you this week. In fact, you have a challenge this week. I want to share with you your challenge. |
| 2:51.3 | So your challenge this week is to adopt a mindset that the samurai adopted as |
| 2:56.8 | they mastered their mood called machine. And machine is translated essentially to mean no mind. |
| 3:07.0 | And by no mind, this involves acting without conscious thought because you don't have to think |
| 3:15.9 | so much about anything because you've trained yourself to act in a particular way |
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