Calming Breathing Technique, Day 3 The Art of Not Giving Up Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Instantly calm your mind and body with this soothing breathing technique.
This week, you're in for another treat as you meet another fellow meditator. We continue to celebrate The Daily Meditation Podcast 9 year anniversary by hearing from your fellow meditators. Andrea is a high school teacher in San Francisco, California. She's also an accomplished artist who recently received a grant to open up her own art studio in San Francisco! You're guided this week in meditations focused on the theme that Andrea selected, The Art of Not Giving Up.
This is part 3 of a 7-Part Meditation Series The Art of Not Giving Up Meditations, Episodes 2917-2923.
CONNECT WITH ANDREA!
ON INSTAGRAM: Say hello to Andrea and be sure to view her artistic Instagram feed @andreanicolettegonzales. Take a look at her new studio in San Francisco!
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE:
Focus on what makes you happy and feeds your soul with a sense of purpose.
A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:
You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 2919 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Mary Mechley and I am excited to share with you one of my personal favorite breathing techniques today. |
| 0:17.0 | This is going to be a guided meditation where you instantly calm your mind and body. |
| 0:27.0 | As always, I start out with a little insight about the theme we're exploring this week. |
| 0:35.0 | And this is a way for you to go a little more deeply into the rich traditions of meditation. |
| 0:43.0 | Well, this week you have the special treat of being guided and using the insight as well as all the meditation techniques selected for you by your fellow meditator Andrea Nicolette Gonzalez. |
| 1:03.0 | You may have heard her interview in episode one of this series. |
| 1:08.0 | She is a high school teacher who recently opened up her own art studio in San Francisco. |
| 1:17.0 | And she details the quest she went on that started during the pandemic when I issued a quest. |
| 1:27.0 | Every once in a while, I like to issue you a quest so that you can start something in your life that might leave a legacy. |
| 1:36.0 | So Andrea started this quest in a way that you may find yourself doing as you begin your own quest. |
| 1:48.0 | Hopefully you are selecting a quest. A quest can really add passion and purpose to your life. |
| 1:56.0 | Andrea started by spending time at her parents' house in Texas where she's from. |
| 2:03.0 | And it was during the pandemic so she had a lot of time and she was thinking about what is it that she really would like to do with her life? |
| 2:15.0 | What would she like to do? She was a teacher. She was passionate about teaching but what else would she like to do with her life? |
| 2:25.0 | And she realized how much she was missing art. She loves art so she started doing art. |
| 2:36.0 | And then she ended up getting a job in San Francisco in one of the most iconic high schools in the city. |
| 2:45.0 | And she opened up an art program there. Well, she decided she wanted her own art studio. |
| 2:56.0 | So she had no idea how to begin to get her own art studio. She did not have the finances or any resources to do this. |
| 3:08.0 | She started to make phone calls, do a little research, one person led to another person, one piece of information led to another. |
| 3:18.0 | And before she knew it, she found out about this grant. No one thought that she would complete the incredibly extensive process to complete the grant. |
| 3:32.0 | But she did and she got the grant. She now has her own studio in downtown San Francisco. |
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