Confidence Affirmation, Day 2 Lean Into Challenges
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
"Stress is not in your head, it's in your body."
~ Dr. Leah Lagos, author of "Heart, Breath Mind"
Do you feel yourself resisting challenges in your life? In this week's series, you're going to be guided to lean into life's challenges. The series will start off with a special interview with a mindfulness-based business owner, Brandon Nolte from Stello mints. You'll hear how Brandon struggled with social anxiety and what helped him overcome it to become the founder of a mindfulness-based business. As a special gift, Brandon is offering the first 100 guests who visit www.StelloMints.com a free trial pack of Stello mints to try them out for yourself on your own mindfulness journey.
This is day 2 of a 7-day meditation series, Lean Into Challenges, episodes 2474-2480.
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Go on a Lean Into Challenges Quest
This week, when faced with challenges, own your emotions. Take some time to sit in stillness to process the emotions you're experiencing.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2475 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Mechley and welcome back to day two of our series this week. |
| 0:12.0 | The theme for this week's series is Lean Into Challenges. |
| 0:18.0 | And in today's episode you're going to be guided using a meditation technique called an affirmation |
| 0:26.0 | to help you feel more confident. |
| 0:30.0 | Affirmations are positive statements that you repeat with intention. |
| 0:36.0 | Not randomly, not mindlessly, but rather with your full focus and attention. |
| 0:44.0 | Affirmations are not wishful thinking. |
| 0:47.0 | When you repeat a phrase that's simple and concise, |
| 0:53.0 | you feel within your body a shift. |
| 0:57.0 | How you feel in your body influences your thoughts and how you feel about yourself. |
| 1:05.0 | I'll share with you a quote from Dr. Leah Lagos, who is a noted psychologist. |
| 1:12.0 | She says, |
| 1:14.0 | Stress is not in your head, it's in your body. |
| 1:18.0 | And this is from a book she wrote, Heart, Breath, Mind. |
| 1:22.0 | Train your heart to conquer stress and achieve success. |
| 1:26.0 | We launched into this series with an interview from a mindfulness-based founder, |
| 1:33.0 | Brandon Nolte of Stellow Mints, that calm your mind and body. |
| 1:41.0 | And this is a book that inspired him to finally, ultimately, sit down and meditate. |
| 1:49.0 | During this time of year, you may find that you might not have as much time or energy to meditate. |
| 1:57.0 | There's so much happening. |
| 2:00.0 | But really, during those times is when we need meditation the most. |
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