Control Your Actions, Surrender the Outcome, Day 1 The Art of Effort Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Be guided with meditation to master your biggest fears by mastering your emotions.
Welcome to the "The Art of Effort" meditation series. In this seven-day journey, we will explore the power of focusing on our actions, intentions, and efforts, rather than becoming fixated on the outcomes that are often beyond our control. Through these daily meditations, we will cultivate a mindset of detachment from outcomes, leading to greater peace of mind, resilience, and effectiveness in our endeavors.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: TAKE ACTION QUEST
Keep a journal throughout this week, recording the actions you take each day towards your goals.
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.
FREE TOOLS:
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 3050 of the daily meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I |
| 0:08.8 | welcome you to a brand new meditation series we launch into every single Sunday. |
| 0:18.0 | This may be a different day for you, but on Sunday I release a new seven-day series. |
| 0:25.5 | So day one is always on a Sunday. |
| 0:28.6 | And on this very first day of a new series, I get you ready for what's coming up during the week and you |
| 0:37.8 | set a goal for the week and I give you a challenge that you are invited to pursue throughout the week and in each episode I share with you a different meditation technique. |
| 0:51.6 | So each day we focus on a technique and this is what I share |
| 0:55.9 | with you every single week and I've done it for nearly 10 years now and I'm so honored for those of you have been with me the entire |
| 1:06.0 | journey. If you're new around here and even if you've been here for a while, make sure |
| 1:12.4 | you subscribe so you don't miss a single |
| 1:14.8 | episode and I always share with you that if you want a little extra support |
| 1:20.9 | you're always welcome to receive a free week of guided meditation so you could have |
| 1:28.7 | this entire week series free on the SIP and O'm meditation app. |
| 1:34.2 | It's SIP A-N-D-O-M. |
| 1:38.9 | So today, you are launching into a new series. I always start a series with some insight and |
| 1:48.2 | then you're guided in the meditation. Well your insight about the art of effort has to do with you controlling your actions while surrendering your outcomes. |
| 2:08.0 | So you're focusing this week on controlling your actions and surrendering outcomes. |
| 2:16.0 | So you're going to focus, |
| 2:19.2 | you're going to explore the power of your focus on your actions, those actions that you were hoping |
| 2:28.8 | you would take and not lose as you started this new year. We are in month two, the middle of month two of |
| 2:36.7 | this new year and you have likely some big goals for this year. You did select a word of the year as we started this |
| 2:46.5 | new year and also a mascot to represent what you wanted to feel like this year. For some of you it was a rock to feel more grounded. |
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