Clarity Affirmation

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Own the day to improve your brain's health. This is part 2 of a 7-part Clarity meditation series, episodes 1690-1696. For full guided meditations, give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2 weeks free. Receive access to 1,800+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from over 200 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. All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content unless otherwise specified. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to Mary@sipandom.com. Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,691.
0:05.0	Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:10.0	I'm Mary Meckley and congratulations to you for giving yourself permission to slow down and
0:21.0	connect to the best part of who you are as you get ready to meditate. In today's episode, you will be guided as you repeat an affirmation.
0:39.2	And I'll share with you some research regarding your brain health.
0:49.2	And this is a clarity meditation series we're exploring this week.
0:57.0	So every day this week, you will gain some insight into how your brain works as well as a meditation technique for clarity.
1:12.0	And so, as you may be getting yourself all ready to meditate I'll share a bit of
1:21.6	insight about your brain and internet use. I know you use the internet because here you are
1:32.0	listening to a podcast.
1:36.3	The internet of course has many wonderful advantages.
1:47.2	Here you are getting ready to do one of the best things you could possibly do for yourself to meditate via your device. Well, there is research that shows how if you're not careful and if you use the internet too much, it can actually rewire your brain.
2:11.8	Now don't worry too much because you are rewiring your brain as you meditate,
2:19.4	especially when you meditate consistently for at least 10 minutes at a time.
2:26.3	You do change neural pathways in your brain, so science tells us, and you can even feel it because you will respond to stress in a much better way
2:38.7	Even after meditating consistently for at least 10 minutes for two weeks.
2:45.0	Well, there are some researchers at UCLA in Los Angeles who examined how our brain works when it's exposed to the internet, especially pretty regularly on a consistent basis.
3:08.0	A book was published called The Shallows. It was by the American writer Nicholas Carr.
3:18.0	And he published this, I believe, in 2008.
3:22.0	And what... this I believe in 2008 and what he discovered is that he noticed that he noticed that spending time online rewires your brain.
3:45.0	And he was worried that the more time one spends online,
3:51.0	the less one is able to be contemplative and imaginative. He also is a noted researcher and in fact he studies how humans age and he especially studies the aging process.
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