Chop Wood, Carry Water: Being True to Yourself, Day 1 Living with Integrity Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the "Living with Integrity" Meditation Series, a journey dedicated to cultivating a harmonious connection between your inner values and outer actions. In this series, we embark on a transformative exploration of mindfulness, self-reflection, and intentional living. As we delve into the essence of integrity, we invite you to find a quiet space, free from distractions, where you can truly center yourself.
This is part 1 of a 7-part meditation series titled Living with Integrity: Being True to Yourself, 3029-3035.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
CHOP WOOD CARRY WATER QUEST
Focus on basic, everyday tasks—symbolized by chopping wood and carrying water—as a means to ground yourself so that external temptations that might compromise your integrity don't tempt you.
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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For free meditation tools to help you start meditating please head over to my website at www.SipandOm.com, and there you'll find a multitude of free resources to help you on your Meditation Journey.
Enjoy access to more than 3,000 guided meditations without ads on the Sip and Om app. Try it for 7 days of free access to the full app!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 3,029 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for |
| 0:10.4 | showing up for yourself today. You may have decided that as one of your New Year's resolutions that you |
| 0:18.2 | wanted to meditate. Now you may be a long-time meditator and I know many of you have meditated with me for years. |
| 0:27.0 | And if so, I want to let you know how much I appreciate you. |
| 0:31.0 | We are launching into a brand new series this week. This is the |
| 0:37.4 | third week of this brand new year and this happens to be the week where many people drop their new year |
| 0:48.2 | resolutions. They let go of their goals. You may not set New Year's resolutions, but I'm sure there are things you want |
| 0:56.8 | to achieve in your life or include in your life or explore. So this is going to be a week about integrity and I decided to |
| 1:09.2 | select this theme because one of the reasons why you may find that you stop pursuing goals or dreams |
| 1:19.7 | or whatever it is you want to achieve in your life is because you stop being true to |
| 1:26.6 | yourself. Before you know it you can be living off someone else's agenda, even |
| 1:31.9 | an agenda that you might periodically check such as the news or |
| 1:38.3 | your social media feeds, whatever it might be, whatever you spend your time and energy on, |
| 1:47.0 | that becomes such an integral part of your life. |
| 1:51.0 | So this is a week to get back your integrity and start being true to yourself again. |
| 1:59.4 | In this week's series, as always, if this is a theme that really speaks to you know that I |
| 2:07.9 | provided a way for you to go more deeply into any theme we explore with my SIP and OOM, SIP, A, N, O M, |
| 2:19.4 | Meditation app. You can try it for a week, free, and you get access to over 3,000 guided meditations on the |
| 2:27.5 | app. The meditations take you through a longer, deeper experience, you also get a journal and a slowdown guide with an herbal tea, a recommended book, a yoga assana, the affirmation the breathing technique the weekly challenge everything we explore is right there at your fingertips |
| 2:49.8 | So again, it's the sippenome Meditation app where you find more support. |
| 2:56.0 | So now you are here and I want to share with you as I always do some insight about this topic. |
| 3:05.0 | Well, first I do want to share with you your challenge for this week. |
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