Dealing With Distractions

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

It's often the little things you do each day that contribute to massive long-term growth. Adapting to life during a pandemic and economic, social, and political disruption requires you to approach your life in new ways. This week you'll explore little ways to create major breakthroughs in how you manage your reaction to stress. Have I mentioned how much I honor all you're doing for yourself? It takes courage to show up for yourself each day. Never underestimate the power of the inner peace you are creating for yourself and the world.

This is part 4 of a 7-part Stress Breakthroughs, episodes 2076-2082.

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is episode 2009 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you back to day four of our series we're exploring this week. You are discovering how to break through
0:20.0	the stress you may be experiencing through this coronavirus pandemic.
0:27.0	In fact, these are techniques you can do anytime you are experiencing stress. In today's episode you are going to discover a
0:38.9	meditation technique to allow you to focus in the moment to get back to what is real.
0:49.8	You may have noticed that you become distracted quite easily these days and it seems
0:58.2	like the news is constantly erupting with new stressful situations we need to worry about.
1:10.0	When you start to feel overwhelmed and saturated, come back to what is real, what's really happening in the moment.
1:25.0	Become very mindful of how you are feeling.
1:30.0	Notice your breath. This is what's real.
1:37.0	Regardless of what's going on around you, many things which you're not able to control, especially these days, what you can control is how you
1:49.0	respond to stress.
1:51.8	And one of the best ways to manage stress is to come back to your breath.
1:59.7	To help you do that, I'm going to share with you a meditation technique called a
2:05.8	mutra. I know many of you tell me these are your favorite techniques. For some of
2:11.9	you you might not really do mudras, but I'll share this week's
2:16.7	mudra with you because it's simple to do. In fact, you have likely seen different statues of different deities from around the world
2:27.8	doing this particular moodra. It is a classic meditation mudra called the Gyanne mudra. You can easily do it right now. I'll guide you through it.
2:41.0	You simply touch your thumb tip to your index
2:47.6	fingertip. So you're making a circle with your thumb and your index finger.
2:55.0	Your other fingers are gently extended outward in a natural way.
3:01.0	So it looks like you're making the okay sign.
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