Creating calm, inside and out, by Rohan Gunatillake
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In today’s Meditation, Rohan reflects on the theme of creating calm, inside and out. Please join us in applying some simple practices to help balance our outer and inner worlds.
This year, we’re again marking Mental Health Awareness Month, an important campaign started by Mental Health America all the way back in 1949. The position of mental health and mental illness in our cultures has changed so much in those seventy odd years, but despite that change there still remains issues such as stigma, access to care and finding the right kind of support at the right time. Today’s meditation originates from the theme of this year’s campaign, Look Around, Look Within.
For more information on this year’s Mental Health Awareness Month campaign, Look Around, Look Within, please visit Mental Health America’s website: https://mhanational.org
Tools and resources for organizations, businesses and individuals: https://mhanational.org/mental-health-month
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, it's Rohan. For Mental Health Awareness Month, we're partnering with a few other |
| 0:05.3 | shows to bring you some resources that might support your own mental health journey. |
| 0:10.5 | This week, I want to share a little bit about a slight change of plans. It's a wonderful |
| 0:15.9 | podcast hosted by one of our previous meditative story guests, Dr. Maya Shankar. On a slight change |
| 0:23.4 | of plans, Maya blends compassionate storytelling with the science of human behaviour to explore |
| 0:29.9 | who we are and who we become in the face of big changes. Much like on meditative story, |
| 0:37.4 | you're here incredible life-changing stories and timeless wisdom that can help you live a better |
| 0:44.0 | life. A slight change of plans is one of my favourite podcasts and I really think you'll love |
| 0:50.4 | it as well, so give it a listen wherever you get your podcasts. The position of mental health and |
| 0:58.0 | mental illness in our cultures has changed so much but there still remains issues such as stigma, |
| 1:04.3 | access to care and finding the right kind of support at the right time. |
| 1:12.1 | But as someone who works for a public health system, I'm so grateful for all the organisations |
| 1:18.4 | and individuals who continue to move the needle, working tirelessly to improve the mental health |
| 1:26.4 | of others, often motivated by their own personal experience. |
| 1:32.3 | This year we're again marking mental health awareness month. The theme of this year's campaign |
| 1:39.2 | is look around, look within. Just forward, it's a concise yet rich invitation to explore and |
| 1:47.7 | understand our environment and how it affects how we are and how we're doing. |
| 1:56.8 | The practical tools that come with the campaign are all about ways to adapt our surroundings |
| 2:02.8 | as well as suggestions for ways to cope when change seems out of reach. |
| 2:08.8 | So for this special episode, let's do a meditation together jumping off from this theme, |
| 2:14.5 | this theme of look around, look within. |
| 2:23.2 | And we'll start eyes open if that feels okay. |
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