Affirmation to Take Better Care of Yourself

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

You've likely been stressed out, overwhelmed, distracted, and feeling like life is way too uncertain these days of pandemic and disruption. It's time to give yourself permission to slow down for some gentle self-care. In this week's series, you're going to be nourishing your mind, body, and soul. In each episode, you're going to be guided with a different meditation technique each day especially customized for the kind of gentle self-care you've likely been putting off. Get ready to feel less depleted and more nourished! THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Do one thing each day to give yourself some gentle self-care. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I nourish myself." Breathing - Inhale your needs, exhale attachments Mudra - Lotus - open up to something new in your life Chakra - 1st - feel more grounded Herb - Passionflower - release tension Yoga Asana - Padahastasana - Standing Forward Bend

This is part 2 of a 7-part Gentle Self-Care, episodes 1045-1051.

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 1046 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley.
0:09.0	I welcome you back to our theme this week as we explore gentle self-care.
0:18.0	You have been focused on so many things happening in the world and so it's time to take a step back
0:29.9	for this week and to begin to give yourself some gentle self-care.
0:37.6	You will be caring for yourself doing a different meditation technique in each day of this series and this is going to
0:48.0	allow you to experiment with different ways to nourish yourself. You may be feeling depleted and that's a very good way to describe how it feels when things around you may be out of your control.
1:11.6	So it's time to nourish yourself. of your meditation technique is an affirmation. An affirmation is a positive statement.
1:15.0	In today's episode, your meditation technique is an affirmation.
1:22.0	An affirmation is a positive statement that you repeat with intention and I
1:30.1	encourage you to repeat this affirmation in the morning when you start your day and in the evening as you end your day.
1:40.0	I also encourage you to repeat this affirmation when you're doing your challenge for the week.
1:48.0	Your challenge is to each day this week do one thing that will nourish you,
1:58.0	something that's going to improve the quality of your life. It's not all about work, work, worry, worry,
2:07.0	it's about living your life and enjoying yourself along the way. No matter what's going on in the world around
2:16.9	you or in your personal private life, find time each day to feel gratitude, to feel a sense of joy, to enjoy a sunset
2:31.8	or a sunrise,
2:35.0	to walk in nature and notice the breeze on your face,
2:40.0	to sit down and relish a meal, even if you're just eating a banana, enjoying each bite of that banana.
2:54.0	You might not often give yourself
2:57.0	this kind of quality in your life.
3:04.0	Live for each day moment by moment,
3:09.0	and everything else will take care of itself.
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