Calm Your Mind, Day 6 Art of Stillness
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
"The purpose of life is a life with purpose."
~ Robin Sharma, author of "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari"
This week you're guided on a journey to feel comfortable with stillness. It can take a little practice to begin to feel at home with stillness. We launch into the series with an interview with one of your fellow meditators, Vidhu, from India. Vidhu shares how she overcame hopelessness with inner stillness. She shares her favorite meditation techniques and tips and challenges you to ask yourself 2 questions when you begin to feel hopeless or overwhelmed: 1) "Can I do everything? The answer is no." 2) "Can I do something? The answer is yes."
You can say hello to Vidhu @booksandmore20 on Instagram. She'd love to answer any questions about her meditation ritual and lifestyle habits.
This is day 6 of a 7-day meditation series, The Art of Stillness, episodes 2390-2396.
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Live in the Moment Quest
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,395 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Mary Mechley and welcome to day six of our series this week. |
| 0:16.0 | All week long, you've been exploring the theme, the art of stillness. |
| 0:22.2 | And stillness is what you may seek most these days, |
| 0:28.0 | where there's so much happening in the world and, personally, with you, there might be a lot going on. |
| 0:35.0 | This is an ideal week for stillness. |
| 0:38.8 | I want to share with you a little research I discovered in regards to stillness. |
| 0:44.8 | Not only does stillness relieve stress and tension, |
| 0:52.6 | but it can also tap into the brain's default mode network. |
| 1:00.0 | And this is from an article called Why Silence is so good for your brain by Caroline Gregois. |
| 1:10.4 | In this article, it's mentioned that the default mode network of the brain |
| 1:20.6 | is activated when we engage in what scientists refer to as self-generated condition, |
| 1:28.8 | such as daydreaming, meditating, fantasizing about the future, or just letting our minds wander. |
| 1:38.6 | When the brain is idle and disengaged from external stimulus, |
| 1:45.0 | we can finally tap into our inner stream of thoughts, emotions, memories, and ideas. |
| 1:54.6 | And when you do engage in this network, it helps you to make meaning out of your experiences. |
| 2:01.4 | It helps you to empathize with others and to be more creative and importantly, |
| 2:09.0 | to reflect on your own mental and emotional state. |
| 2:16.2 | So to do this, it's necessary to break away from the distractions |
| 2:23.2 | that keep lingering in the shallow surfaces of your mind. |
| 2:29.8 | And silence is a way of getting there. |
| 2:32.8 | As you get ready to sit in stillness today, |
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