Finding Purpose in Life, Day 5 The Art of Stillness
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
"Our ikigai is different for all of us but one thing we have in common is that we are all searching for meaning."
~ Hector Garcia Puigcerver, author of "Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life"
This week you're guided on a journey to feel comfortable with stillness. It can take a little practice to begin to feel at home with stillness. We launch into the series with an interview with one of your fellow meditators, Vidhu, from India. Vidhu shares how she overcame hopelessness with inner stillness. She shares her favorite meditation techniques and tips and challenges you to ask yourself 2 questions when you begin to feel hopeless or overwhelmed: 1) "Can I do everything? The answer is no." 2) "Can I do something? The answer is yes."
You can say hello to Vidhu @booksandmore20 on Instagram. She'd love to answer any questions about her meditation ritual and lifestyle habits.
This is day 5 of a 7-day meditation series, The Art of Stillness, episodes 2390-2396.
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Live in the Moment Quest
Every day ask yourself these 2 questions: 1) "Can I do everything? The answer is no." 2) "Can I do something? The answer is yes."
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Episode 2,394 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Mary Mechley and welcome back to Day 5 of our series we're exploring this week. |
| 0:14.9 | Our theme is the art of stillness and stillness is what we so badly crave these days as there's so much noise and confusion |
| 0:29.0 | and distraction happening in the world these days. |
| 0:33.0 | I hope you're staying safe and I hope you're finding time to give yourself permission to slow down. |
| 0:43.0 | In today's episode you're going to be guided as you do a meditation technique from your fellow meditator Vidhu |
| 0:54.0 | who I interviewed in the very first episode of this series. |
| 0:59.0 | You can go back and listen to that interview if you'd like and she shared with me her favorite meditation techniques. |
| 1:07.0 | So this technique I think you will enjoy is a technique where you focus at your spiritual eye. |
| 1:18.0 | This is the prefrontal part of your brain that is activated when you meditate. |
| 1:27.0 | This is a part of your brain that helps you to manage your stress in a much better way. |
| 1:34.0 | You'll have the opportunity to focus on the sixth chakra or rather the anja mudra |
| 1:42.0 | and that is the location of your prefrontal lobes. |
| 1:47.0 | This has an element which is considered to be ether. |
| 1:54.0 | The color is blue and the quality is letting go of your ego and tapping into your inner truth. |
| 2:08.0 | I'd like to think the sponsor of this episode which many of you reach out to me on a regular ongoing basis about the meditation cushion that I use. |
| 2:20.0 | I use a meditation set from mindful and modern. |
| 2:25.0 | So I'm pleased that they are now a sponsor of the podcast because they truly are in my opinion the best meditation cushion. |
| 2:35.0 | I've tried many and you may have tried many as well. |
| 2:40.0 | They have a very beautiful soft fabric. |
| 2:44.0 | I have the emerald green velvet rectangular cushion. |
| 2:49.0 | And on top of that I have a round also the emerald green velvet although they have many color choices. |
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