Calming Breathing Technique, Day 3 How to Practice Gratitude
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Calm racing thoughts.
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This week, we launch into a meditation series to help you practice gratitude. Feeling grateful is considered to be one of the most important ways to improve all areas of your life. You'll be exploring ways to practice daily gratitude and you'll also discover how gratitude actually changes your brain. This is day 3 of a 7-day meditation series, How to Practice Gratitude, episodes 2691-2698.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE
You're Invited To Take Part In a Gratitude Project!
As you start your day, and end your day, focus on what you're grateful for.
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Day 3: Breathing Technique
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Day 5: Chakra Technique
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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 Mary@sipandom.com.Let go of repetitive negative thoughts.
This week, you are invited to take part in an emotional healing journey. You'll be guided through 7-steps to heal your emotions. It's all too common to conceal your reactions to stressors in life and to neglect your emotions. This week, you'll be guided to honor your emotional state.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 2,694 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you as you give yourself permission to slow down so you |
| 0:16.3 | can connect to that best part of who you are. |
| 0:22.0 | In today's episode, you're going to be guided using a breathing technique to help you |
| 0:28.4 | focus on gratitude. |
| 0:31.7 | Every week we explore a theme for an entire week using different meditation techniques |
| 0:38.8 | in each episode as you explore the theme. |
| 0:42.7 | The theme this week is how to practice gratitude so you're guided using a different technique |
| 0:49.4 | each day as well as a specific way to target and practice gratitude in your life. |
| 0:58.9 | You started off in day one with what is gratitude. |
| 1:03.7 | What are you grateful for? |
| 1:05.8 | In yesterday's episode day two, you focused on acceptance, accepting your life exactly |
| 1:13.9 | as it is and feeling grateful for what you already have. |
| 1:18.8 | Today, day three, you are going to explore, do, practice, practicing gratitude, sometimes |
| 1:29.7 | people who are newer to meditation will tell me, I sat down to meditate but nothing happened. |
| 1:38.6 | It's as though they thought that when they sat down to meditate, something was going |
| 1:45.2 | to happen to them. |
| 1:48.2 | Something outside of themselves would suddenly allow them to meditate. |
| 1:53.8 | Well, many times when we think about gratitude, it can feel a little like that, like something |
| 2:01.8 | supposed to happen and then we feel grateful. |
| 2:05.9 | Well, I encourage you to practice gratitude, to make gratitude happen in your life, to |
| 2:14.6 | do gratitude and your daily challenge allows you to do that. |
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