Break the Cycle of Ruminating Obsessive Thoughts, Day 5 Emotional Regulation Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Tame obssessive thoughts by acknowledging them without judgement and then redirect your focus to something positive or distracting.
This week, in each episode, you're guided in meditation sessions to focus on cultivating self-awareness, mindfulness, and techniques for managing and channeling emotions in a healthy way, ultimately fostering a sense of emotional balance and well-being.
This is part 5 of a 7-part Series Emotional Regulation, Episodes 2959-2965.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
Practice a meditation technique for at least 5 minutes a day to manage a top stressor you're experiencing in your life.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to day five of the series we're exploring this week all |
| 0:05.7 | about emotional regulation and I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to episode |
| 0:11.8 | 2,973. I also want to share with you that I know many of you sometimes come |
| 0:19.9 | across a theme where you want to go a little more deeply and that is why I created |
| 0:26.6 | the SIP and OM meditation app. It's a way for you to explore longer guided |
| 0:33.6 | meditations as well as a little deeper insight. I share my own personal journey |
| 0:39.7 | extensively there on the meditation app. You can try it for an entire week free |
| 0:46.0 | and also provide you a journal with a daily reflection question as well as a |
| 0:51.9 | slowdown guide with all the techniques I share with you in each episode all |
| 0:57.4 | customized around the week's theme. So again it's free for an entire week so |
| 1:05.2 | here you are. Today I'm going to share with you some insight as always and then |
| 1:13.0 | you take this insight into your meditation. This is insight that has to do with |
| 1:19.4 | those ruminating, obsessive thoughts you can't let go of and it's important to |
| 1:27.8 | know that rumination is actually on a continuum with rumination being on one |
| 1:36.3 | end of the spectrum and reflection on the other end. Meditation is all about |
| 1:44.0 | reflection. That's what you do when you meditate and so you are in the right |
| 1:49.0 | place doing all the right things at this moment to release those ruminating |
| 1:55.2 | obsessive thoughts. So you might consider what brought you to this state of |
| 2:02.8 | ruminating and what happens is it has to do with trying to soothe yourself and |
| 2:13.6 | what I mean by this is when you're experiencing a lot of stress especially if |
| 2:20.8 | this stress is actually emotionally painful let's say you're in a relationship |
| 2:28.5 | and you feel trapped and so you're ruminating about it could even be a song or a |
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