Calm Distracting Thoughts

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

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

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Improving your ability to concentrate can drastically improve your life. Your attention is at an all-time premium these days. Meditation is one of the best ways to improve concentration. This week's series will help you keep your focus on your own agenda so you can live the life you were meant to live, regardless of what's going on in the world. This is part 6 of a 7-part Brain Health and Concentration, episodes 2040-2046. 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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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected].

Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 2045 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley.
0:07.5	How are you doing? Here you are showing up for yourself today.
0:14.0	You are amazing to be doing this for yourself.
0:18.0	In fact, meditation is one of the best ways to instantly calm your mind, body, and soul. And that is what we all
0:30.8	need these days of uncertainty.
0:34.2	So as you get ready to do your meditation today,
0:39.4	I have some insight to share with you. In fact, I have a little challenge for you. This is on top of your
0:50.0	week's challenge. Our theme this week we're exploring your brain health and the focus
0:57.8	is concentration so your challenge has been to create time each day to concentrate, to focus on what matters most
1:10.8	because your time and your attention is at an all-time premium these days.
1:18.6	And we don't know how long we will be in this chain of uncertainty.
1:27.0	But what you can do for yourself every day is to show up and be authentic with who you are and that is to find this time to concentrate.
1:40.1	And you'll notice that as you do this every day, just as when you sit down to meditate each day,
1:48.0	you may start to fidget, but then your mind begins to calm down. You begin to relax and you begin
1:58.8	to think and evolve your own life instead of worrying about all the things out there, all around
2:10.8	you, you start to focus on what you have control over.
2:17.3	And this is a gift that is valuable and it's a gift that helps others around you as well.
2:26.5	So when you focus and concentrate today,
2:32.2	my additional challenge for you is to share the benefits of your focus
2:42.0	with someone who could use a little support, especially moral support. A lot of people
2:49.3	are feeling disillusioned and fearful. And if you can give someone a little dose of peace or a little
2:59.0	more clarity or a little boost of energy and inspiration, that can go a long way to making the world a
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