Breathing Technique to Manage Your Moods
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
"2020 was truly eye-opening! I grew so much and relied on myself, any loss was actually a gain once I went through it, and it taught me that I have so much more with less." ~ Fellow Meditator, Jen from the U.S.
If there's one thing you could change about yourself that would improve your life, it is the quality of your thoughts. Moods often get in the way of our most beautiful thoughts. Taming your moods helps you to focus on internal contentment regardless of what's happening in the external world. This is part 3 of a 7-part Taming Bad Moods meditation series, episodes 2187-2193. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: You're invited to take part in a Positivity Quest. Every day this week, focus on feeling an inner awareness of contentment, regardless of what's happening in the external world. This Quest will help to retrain your brain to focus on uplifting thoughts. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Day 1: Mood Awareness Visualization Day 2: Affirmation "I uplift my thoughts in all situations." Day 3: Inhale 6, Hold 7, Exhale 8 Day 4: Shankh Mudra technique Day 5: Seventh Chakra Focus Day 6: Layer the week's techniques together Day 7: Weekly Reflection Meditation LET'S SUPPORT EACH OTHER - WANT TO SHARE YOUR MEDITATION RITUAL WITH YOUR FELLOW MEDITATORS? Let's connect and inspire each other! Please share a little about how meditation has helped you by reaching out to me at Mary@SipandOm.com or better yet -- direct message me on https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om. We'd love to hear about your meditation ritual!SUBSCRIBE, LEAVE A REVIEW + TAKE OUR SURVEY
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,188 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you back to day three of our series this week. We're exploring the theme of how to manage bad |
| 0:20.0 | moods and negative thoughts, which are more prevalent these days as we experience coronavirus |
| 0:29.7 | as well as uncertainty. Keep in mind there are so many great things happening. |
| 0:37.0 | In fact, I've heard from so many of you that 2020 brought many gifts to you. |
| 0:46.0 | I want to share with you from a fellow meditator |
| 0:50.9 | who sent me a photo she took during the New Year's Eve fire ceremony. You may have done that |
| 1:02.2 | fire ceremony last week I shared for New Year's Eve a special |
| 1:06.9 | guided meditation for that and during the fire ceremony you were asked to write down at least three things you'd like to release |
| 1:17.4 | from the year 2020. |
| 1:20.2 | So this is from Jen, whose husband is a professional landscape designer. |
| 1:27.8 | So you can imagine what their fire pit looks like. |
| 1:31.6 | So she sends a photo of her sitting around this amazing fire pit holding |
| 1:37.4 | a piece of paper that says, 2020, thanks for giving me more with less. I thought that summed it up so beautifully. We are |
| 1:49.7 | trying our best to do more with less and sometimes we realize less is better. |
| 1:58.0 | Jen also reached out and shared with me saying I grew so much and relied on myself. Any loss was actually |
| 2:09.0 | a gain once I went through it and it taught me that I have so much more with less. |
| 2:15.4 | So as you get ready to settle yourself down and meditate today, |
| 2:22.0 | I want to mention that I'd love to hear from you. I'd like to |
| 2:29.7 | hear ways that you are doing more with less. |
| 2:36.6 | And I'd also like to hear how your quest is going, |
| 2:39.9 | so you can reach out to me on my SIP and Ohm, Instagram. You can send me a direct message. |
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