Feel Happier and Less Stressed Day 5
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
"I used to get very stressed out with online teaching... now I feel much at peace with myself and my work and this keeps my stress at bay." ~ Fellow meditator Nishil from Mumbai, India
What could you do in just 10-minutes a day to improve your mood? Meditation will do the trick... and so will journaling about happiness. In this week's series, you're guided on a Happiness journey following along with the guidelines of Dr. Sandi Mann, a psychologist from Manchester UK who wrote a book called, "10-Minutes to Happiness, A Journal that Will Change Your Life."
In each episode, you'll discover a time-tested question to boost your happiness that you can Journal about and also reflect on as you meditate.
This is day 5 of a 7-day 10-Minutes of Happiness meditation series, episodes 2208-2214. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: You're invited to take part in a 10-Minutes of Happiness Journaling Quest. You're encouraged to journal about happiness every day this week. No worries if you're not a big fan of journaling! You can simply sit in 10-minutes of stillness as you reflect on the day's happiness question. Each day's question will be released on each episode this week, so be sure to listen in for each question! The questions are designed and tested by a psychologist, Dr. Sandi Mann of the MindTraining Clinic in Manchester UK. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Day 1: Happiness Awareness Visualization Day 2: Affirmation "Joy is all around me." Day 3: Inhale happiness, Exhale spreading happiness within Day 4: Apan Mudra technique Day 5: Second Chakra Focus Day 6: Layer the week's techniques together Day 7: Weekly Reflection Meditation SHARE YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEDITATORS Let's connect and inspire each other! Please share a little about how meditation has helped you by reaching out to me at Mary@SipandOm.com or better yet -- direct message me on https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om. We'd love to hear about your meditation ritual!SUBSCRIBE, LEAVE A REVIEW + TAKE OUR SURVEY
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,213 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to day five of our series this week. |
| 0:14.5 | We are exploring 10 minutes of happiness all week long. |
| 0:20.6 | You have a special challenge this week and your challenge is to journal about happiness. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm sharing with you a question to journal about and also to reflect on as you meditate. I'll be |
| 0:36.6 | guiding you through this question and I'll also be guiding you through a meditation |
| 0:42.4 | to focus on some aspect of happiness. |
| 0:49.2 | As always you can find the full half hour guided meditations on the SIP and O'm meditation app. |
| 0:58.3 | You can try the app for seven days, absolutely free, so that's a full series you could try out you receive a |
| 1:06.4 | journal and a guide customized for each week's theme so this week you'll receive a |
| 1:12.1 | happiness journal and a happiness guide. |
| 1:15.8 | I want you to know how much I honor you for what you're doing for yourself. It's not always so easy to establish a |
| 1:27.1 | ritual, any kind of ritual, but especially a ritual like meditation because sometimes you might feel like you're not really sure if you're progressing. |
| 1:40.0 | If you start a ritual such as working out, you want to have some kind of fitness ritual, |
| 1:48.0 | you often feel stronger and you notice improvements in your body and in your energy level or if you begin a ritual |
| 1:56.4 | where you decide to go to bed a little earlier you notice you feel more arrested |
| 2:02.2 | and you are able to focus more. |
| 2:06.0 | When you start a ritual such as meditation, |
| 2:10.0 | if you want to know whether or not you are making any progress, ask yourself this question. |
| 2:20.0 | Ask yourself if you notice a little more peace. |
| 2:27.6 | If you notice you're a little happier or a little calmer or maybe you're simply not reacting to stress with so much anxiety. |
| 2:44.0 | Or, maybe you're still experiencing stress and anxiety |
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