Finding Joy in Simplicity

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Behappy, Mental Health, Meditation, Anxiety, Sleep, Mindfulness, Alternative Health, Guidedmeditation, Health & Fitness, Focus

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Open your heart to the simple things in life.

This is part 4 of a 7-part Joy meditation series, episodes 1655-1561.

Give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2 weeks free. Receive access to 1,600+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from over 200 series to fit your mood with a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each theme. Brand new themes are introduced each week with brand new meditations offered daily. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers.

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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected].

Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,659.
0:03.0	Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Mary Meckley and here you are in the midst of a busy holiday season and end of year festivities and here
0:19.7	you are slowing down.
0:25.0	I honor you for giving yourself peace, energy and clarity this busy season. And in today's episode, you will discover a meditation technique
0:40.4	you can do to help you experience more joy.
0:47.1	When you experience joy,
0:50.5	that's a connected to anything outside yourself. You actually feel energized. This gives you energy, clarity, and focus.
1:11.3	When the joy comes from outside of yourself, which it so often does during the holidays,
1:22.0	with big displays of lights and decorations and
1:28.2	displays of affection that involve outward gestures such as giving gifts or eating lavish meals. True joy will never come from anything outside yourself. And so during the holidays,
1:50.5	the end of the year, festivities, you can feel so depleted because there's so much going on outside of yourself that's stimulating but not fulfilling.
2:11.7	Having a conversation with someone and feeling deeply connected to someone is more of a gift
2:21.7	than any material possession you could receive.
2:26.3	So this constant external stimulus without a true internal connection can leave you feeling so drained.
2:40.0	However, when you focus on your own sense of celebration and redefine what gift giving means or what celebrations mean, then you will discover your true joy and you can do this so beautifully with the winter solstice. The winter solstice is a time of deep inner reflection,
3:20.2	the darkest day of the year can represent you going within yourself. So tonight light a candle, light many candles and sit in
3:42.3	stillness and honor the quiet place within you.
3:50.0	Today's meditation technique is focusing on your chakra. Chakra's are areas within your body that harbor particular emotions that represent
4:06.8	your memories and your thoughts and they also represent different
4:12.2	functions of your body.
4:14.0	So I'm sure you can sometimes feel
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