Breathing Technique to Sleep Better Day 3
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
"I always listen to the podcast before sleeping and it makes me feel so calm!" ~ Fellow meditator Rose from Amsterdam
What could you do in just 10-minutes a day to improve your mood? Meditation will do the trick... and so will journaling about happiness. In this week's series, you're guided on a Happiness journey following along with the guidelines of Dr. Sandi Mann, a psychologist from Manchester UK who wrote a book called, "10-Minutes to Happiness, A Journal that Will Change Your Life."
In each episode, you'll discover a time-tested question to boost your happiness that you can Journal about and also reflect on as you meditate.
This is day 3 of a 7-day 10-Minutes of Happiness meditation series, episodes 2208-2214. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: You're invited to take part in a 10-Minutes of Happiness Journaling Quest. You're encouraged to journal about happiness every day this week. No worries if you're not a big fan of journaling! You can simply sit in 10-minutes of stillness as you reflect on the day's happiness question. Each day's question will be released on each episode this week, so be sure to listen in for each question! The questions are designed and tested by a psychologist, Dr. Sandi Mann of the MindTraining Clinic in Manchester UK. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Day 1: Happiness Awareness Visualization Day 2: Affirmation "Joy is all around me." Day 3: Inhale happiness, Exhale spreading happiness within Day 4: Apan Mudra technique Day 5: Second Chakra Focus Day 6: Layer the week's techniques together Day 7: Weekly Reflection Meditation SHARE YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY 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 2,210 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to day three of our series we're exploring this week. It's 10 minutes of happiness all week long. |
| 0:20.1 | You have a challenge this week. Your challenge is to journal about your happiness. |
| 0:28.4 | If you could journal for 10 minutes, |
| 0:30.9 | that would be wonderful. If not, no worries. You might simply reflect on what makes you happy. |
| 0:39.5 | Maybe when you wake up in the morning, you could reflect on what you're excited about for the day, |
| 0:45.8 | or as you go to bed at night, reflect on your day, what your favorite part of your day was, what made you happy. And as you do each |
| 1:00.2 | meditation and journal entry you will hear the question that I release in each |
| 1:08.5 | episode every day this week so make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss the questions |
| 1:16.2 | for your happiness quest this week. |
| 1:20.0 | Remember if you want to go a little more deeply into any series, maybe this is a series you'd like to really explore more deeply, you can find more guidance and 30 minute daily meditations on the SIP and O'm meditation app. So you could give yourself 30 minutes of happiness. |
| 1:47.0 | Although on the app, the meditations are structured so you can break off at any point. |
| 1:54.0 | So you could meditate for five minutes or 10 minutes or 15 or 20. |
| 2:01.0 | You can meditate all the way up to 30 minutes. You can try the app for a full weeks |
| 2:10.0 | episode, absolutely free. You also get a journal of the week so you receive a |
| 2:17.7 | happiness journal this week as well as a slowdown guide. So as you get ready to calm your mind and body in today's |
| 2:29.6 | episode you're going to be guided using a breathing technique and this is a breathing |
| 2:35.7 | technique to really focus on the happiness you're feeling and allowing it to saturate you. |
| 2:47.0 | So taking it deeply within. |
| 2:51.0 | Many times we allow our thoughts to bounce around. We think, oh that made me happy or this made me happy and this brought me down or this gave me a lot of energy and our thoughts tend to |
| 3:10.3 | jump around. For your meditation today I encourage you to think about just one thing |
| 3:22.2 | that makes you happy and take this deeply within you. So really reflect on it and appreciate it. It's kind of like the exercise where you eat a |
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