Facing Fear with Awareness and Certainty, Day 7: "The Uncertainty Detox: Rewiring Your Brain for Fearless Living" meditation series
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As we come to the end of this week's exploration, this final meditation invites us to pause and look back on the path we've walked — the insights uncovered, the moments of stillness, and the courage it took to sit with what is often most difficult: fear and uncertainty.
Throughout the week, we've learned to meet these emotions not as enemies, but as messengers — guiding us toward greater awareness, resilience, and trust in life's unfolding. Each practice has helped us build a foundation: grounding in the body, calming the mind, opening the heart, and reconnecting with our inner strength.
Today's meditation is a space of integration — a gentle review of how these practices have touched us, shifted us, or simply reminded us of what's already within. It's an opportunity to honor your own effort, to acknowledge the growth that may be quiet but steady, and to recognize that the tools you've developed are always available, even when uncertainty returns.
As we begin, allow yourself to settle with a sense of gratitude — for the journey, for the lessons, and for your willingness to face fear with awareness and compassion.
This is day 7 of a 7-day meditation series, "The Uncertainty Detox: Rewiring Your Brain for Fearless Living," episodes 1213-1219.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,219. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome back. |
| 0:06.2 | And congratulations for reaching the very final episode of our series on Uncertainty. |
| 0:15.7 | In today's episode, you'll be guided in a meditation I encourage you to take outside. It's a way to reward |
| 0:27.4 | yourself for all you've been doing this week. And if you can walk as you do this meditation, |
| 0:37.1 | making it a walking meditation, that would be fantastic. |
| 0:44.6 | If you can take the techniques and the mindset and integrate them as you walk and come across your day-to-day life, your world around you, |
| 1:04.1 | taking the meditation techniques off your meditation cushion and into your daily life, this takes your meditation ritual to the next |
| 1:16.5 | level. Now, I know it's not always easy to get outside and meditate. In that case, I encourage |
| 1:24.4 | you to meditate inside where you normally meditate, but open a window or a door |
| 1:33.3 | and allow the outdoors in. So meditate in a walking meditation or simply meditate seated outside. |
| 1:44.1 | And if that doesn't work out, then meditate inside with an open window or door. |
| 1:50.3 | Allow yourself to feel the cold air or the heat, whatever may be your weather conditions |
| 2:00.2 | as you meditate, |
| 2:01.6 | and manage your reaction to the weather as you meditate. |
| 2:08.2 | This is a very good practice to do. |
| 2:13.0 | And as you do today's meditation, you'll be guided through a reflection over the past week. |
| 2:23.8 | When you take stock or reflect on what you experienced through the week, |
| 2:33.1 | then you can begin to realize patterns or look at things |
| 2:40.8 | from a different perspective, from the very moment you happened to be engaged in any activity. |
| 2:56.0 | Once you've had a little bit of distance from the different things that happened to you throughout the week and you assess them, even if it just happened a |
| 3:02.5 | few days ago, you can look at it a little more objectively. So let's meditate. |
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