Creating a Sustainable Lifestyle, Day 7 The Art of Effort Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Reflect on personal values and goals, cultivating self-compassion and gratitude, and visualizing positive outcomes, fostering a sense of purpose and empowerment to make meaningful changes.
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 toward 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 3,056 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I |
| 0:09.5 | welcome you to the final episode in the series we're exploring this week. This is day seven of the |
| 0:18.0 | art of effort where you've been focusing on taking that next step that will move you forward towards whatever |
| 0:28.0 | it is you're pursuing in your life. |
| 0:31.6 | And this doesn't necessarily include only achievements as you explored in |
| 0:37.4 | yesterday's episode this also includes pursuing and taking that next step to create the lifestyle you want and |
| 0:48.1 | this lifestyle you create is going to sustain you as you pursue achievements and bigger goals with |
| 0:57.7 | relationships with health with wellness with your career whatever it is |
| 1:02.2 | you're pursuing and in today's episode I |
| 1:06.1 | always say it's one of the most important episodes in a series because this is when |
| 1:11.8 | you reflect back over your week you put closure on your |
| 1:16.7 | week and as you do this you become aware of how you're living your life and this is so important because you begin |
| 1:27.2 | to notice patterns that are working well for you and also maybe habits or tendencies that aren't working so well for you. |
| 1:37.0 | And if you never take the time to reflect on how you're living your life, it's difficult to notice how you're |
| 1:47.0 | improving your life and even how to actually go about improving your life. So today is a very important day for you. |
| 1:56.9 | As always I share with you insight and then you're guided in a meditation. I want you to know that I do have a SIP and OOM meditation |
| 2:07.1 | app and this is where you find the full in-depth insight that I share each day as well as longer guided meditations. |
| 2:16.8 | You also receive a journal for each week's series and a slowdown guide with every technique I share with you in a weekly series right there at your fingertips on this guide. |
| 2:29.0 | Many of the app users tell me this is such an important feature for them as they go through a weekly |
| 2:36.1 | series. |
| 2:37.1 | You can try it for an entire week, absolutely free, and that gives you access to over 3,000 guided meditations. So here you are. As you |
| 2:48.9 | get ready to settle yourself down and meditate, I want to share with you that many of you I |
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