Breathing to Calm Yourself Instantly, Day 3 Do Less Better: The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius Meditations,
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
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🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This meditation encourages you to slow down and appreciate the fleeting moments, recognizing that, like the stars, life is a continuous flow that can be embraced with mindfulness.
This week, we launch into a series exploring the wisdom of doing less to be better. You're guided by the ancient wisdom of former Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius.
This is part 3 of a 7-part meditation series titled, Do Less Better: The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius Meditations, Episodes 2973-2979.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 2,975 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Mary Mechley and I'm so honored to provide you with some insight on how to do less |
| 0:18.0 | better, as well as guide you in a meditation with a breathing technique. |
| 0:25.2 | This is to calm your whole mind and body instantly. |
| 0:30.5 | Research shows that breathing techniques are the fastest way to calm your mind and body |
| 0:38.0 | instantly. |
| 0:39.0 | So, I'll be guiding you through a simple, easy breathing technique that you can do when |
| 0:44.6 | you want to calm down. |
| 0:47.0 | I also want to check in with you about your one minute mindfulness break as that coming |
| 0:54.1 | along. |
| 0:55.3 | This is where you pause throughout your day at least once and you might set a timer |
| 1:03.3 | maybe on your phone and give yourself a one minute mindfulness break. |
| 1:10.7 | Now, you might feel like a minute less an eternity if you're just sitting still. |
| 1:18.0 | So you could try doing this breathing technique for the full minute. |
| 1:22.6 | That would be amazing and you would definitely notice the benefits right away. |
| 1:29.6 | Well, your insight for today as you do less better is coming from a stoic philosopher, |
| 1:41.8 | Marcus Aurelius, who was also a renowned military leader as well as being incredibly calm during |
| 1:53.2 | the most difficult situations that occurred during his rule. |
| 1:58.8 | So I'm sharing with you some of the difficulties he had to overcome. |
| 2:05.4 | Well, you can relate to this one. |
| 2:09.3 | Plague and pandemic, the Antenine plague is what was happening during his rule. |
| 2:18.4 | It was believed to be caused by either smallpox or measles. |
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