Enough is Plenty, Day 7: "The Art of Enough" meditation series

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This meditation invites you to explore the concept of sufficiency, drawing inspiration from "Four Thousand Weeks." By focusing on gratitude and contentment, you'll cultivate a deeper appreciation for what you already have.

Meditation:

Imagine a bowl overflowing with abundance. This bowl represents all that you have—possessions, relationships, experiences, and health. As you inhale, feel a sense of gratitude for everything within this bowl.

With each exhale, let go of any desire for more. Remember, fullness is not about quantity but about quality.

WELCOME TO THIS WEEK'S GUIDED MEDITATION SERIES

This meditation series invites you to explore the concept of time as a finite resource. Drawing inspiration from Oliver Burkeman's "Four Thousand Weeks," you'll delve into the art of living fully within your allotted time. By focusing on mindfulness, gratitude, and intention, you're invited to cultivate a deeper appreciation for the present moment and make conscious choices that align with your values

This is episode 7 of this week's 7-day meditation series, "The Art of Enough," episodes 3156-3162.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Give Yourself Permission to Slow Down

This week your challenge is to consider all the ways you can slow down each day. When you wake up in the morning, plan ways to do less.

A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:

Get ready for an exciting journey with a new meditation technique daily, perfectly tailored to the week's theme! Infuse these powerful practices into the most stressful moments of your day to master difficult emotions. These dynamic techniques will help you tame the "monkey mind," keeping your thoughts from interrupting your meditation and bringing peace and focus to your life.

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**All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information, or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy, or clarity you may experience as you meditate.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 3,162 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for showing up for yourself giving yourself permission to slow down so you can
0:20.4	connect to the best part of who you are. And that's the part that often is
0:27.1	bypassed throughout your day as you get caught up and doing all kinds of things that might even be distractions or overwhelm
0:38.6	or stress or anxiety. And this has been a week about how to reverse that. It's been a week with the theme
0:50.3	where you've been on a journey to explore the art of enough and this is following
0:57.5	along with a book by Oliver Berkman called 4,000 weeks. This is how many weeks you would have if you
1:10.1	lived to be 80 years old and in this week's series you've had a challenge as you
1:18.8	do in every series. Well your challenge this week has been to do less and this entails you to consider your values
1:31.9	Those things that matter most to you, and what you could let go of that is just
1:41.2	a distraction that takes you away from what you really want to focus on in your life.
1:50.0	This includes things you do, habits you might have, thoughts you think, relationships
1:58.8	you might have. It involves analyzing how you live your life.
2:05.0	And in this week's series,
2:08.0	you've discovered different meditation techniques
2:12.0	and insight to help you live with enough. Enough is plenty.
2:20.8	So in today's episode I'll guide you with insight as always to take you deeper into the
2:27.5	theme so don't miss a single episode I share daily meditations with you so you can maintain that all important consistency of meditating daily that gives you the best benefits. So after your insight you're going to be
2:45.9	guided as you always are in day seven of a series and this is when you reflect back
2:51.5	over your week.
2:53.1	You celebrate the wins, you think about what you might do differently,
2:57.7	there's never any shame or blame, it's all awareness. And this is how you improve how you live your life.
3:07.0	I like to say it's one of the most important episodes in a series.
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