Become More Mindful

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Behappy, Mental Health, Meditation, Anxiety, Sleep, Mindfulness, Alternative Health, Guidedmeditation, Health & Fitness, Focus

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🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This week it's all about improving your memory. Meditation is one of the best ways to improve your memory, especially short term memory. If you've walked into a room and forgotten why you were there one too many times, this week's series will provide you with a different meditation technique every day to boost your memory. This is part 5 of a 7-part Brain Health and Memory, episodes 2033-2039. Give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2-weeks free! Receive access to 2,000+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from 300+ series to fit your mood with a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each theme. Brand new themes are introduced each week with brand new meditations offered daily. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers.

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 2037 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:06.0	How are you? I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you midweek in our series we're exploring with the theme of brain health in regard to your memory.
0:21.6	In each episode this week you are exploring a different
0:27.8	meditation technique that can help you improve your memory. One of the most effective ways to improve your memory
0:37.4	is actually what you're doing right now as you get ready to calm your mind and your body, a calm mind and a body helps your brain health.
0:51.6	It also helps your memory. Today's meditation technique that you can do as you
0:59.2	settle yourself down and get ready to meditate as well as if you're going about your day and
1:06.4	you're simply going to do this technique on the go. It's all good. You can do the meditation techniques on or off your meditation cushion.
1:19.3	So the technique is a technique to help you feel grounded.
1:26.0	And many times when you're feeling anxious,
1:31.0	fearful, or uncertain, you find yourself so distracted and it can be hard to focus
1:39.3	on anything and you may find that you have trouble remembering things or you're forgetting things easily.
1:48.0	So the more you can bring yourself into the present moment, which is what mindfulness meditation does so effectively,
2:01.6	the better you will be able to recall your experiences and to jog your memory.
2:11.1	And I'll share with you a little about how this works in your brain and then I'll guide you to help
2:20.0	you get started to bring this technique into your own meditation. Do you sometimes find
2:27.8	yourself forgetting the name of someone you just met? Or do you find yourself not being able to
2:37.3	remember what you just had for lunch today? Or maybe you suddenly find yourself forgetting how to do something that you know
2:49.8	how to do really well and for some reason some part of that has just slipped your mind.
2:57.8	This has to do with your episodic memory.
3:02.3	Your episodic memory has to do with what you remember in regard to details.
3:11.1	And how you remember these details has to do with how mindful you are in the moment.
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