Focused Breath Meditation, Day 3: "Inner Light, Outer World"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Focus your thoughts with a specific breathing technique to help you access your inner light while gently releasing distracting thoughts. Conscious breathing is a powerful tool for calming the mind and body, allowing you to center yourself and connect with your innate luminosity. This practice will guide you to use your breath as an anchor, a steady point of focus that will help you to navigate away from mental chatter and towards a state of peaceful clarity and connection with your inner light.
THIS WEEK'S THEME: "Inner Light, Outer World"
This 7-day meditation series brings light to a world that often feels harsh and demanding. You'll discover the need for nurturing, for mothering in its most compassionate and supportive form, is more crucial than ever. This meditation series, "Inner Light, Outer World," is designed to help you cultivate that quality within yourself and extend it outwards. You'll explore how to become a source of gentle strength, unwavering support, and loving-kindness, not only for yourself but also for those around you. Each meditation will guide you to connect with your own inner light, that place of profound peace and boundless love, and from that place, to radiate those qualities into the world, offering a healing and transformative presence.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the daily meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different meditation technique every day on the podcast. And each technique is customized around a weekly theme. And in today's episode, episode 704, you're going to be guided in a meditation to focus your breath, to release distracting thoughts. So our theme this week is stopping distracting thoughts in their tracks. |
| 0:44.3 | And every day we're exploring a different meditation technique to help you release distracting thoughts. |
| 0:52.3 | You can find all the techniques over at my website at SIP and Ome.com. |
| 0:58.9 | There you can go to the Stop Distracting Thoughts Meditation series and you'll see all the techniques |
| 1:06.2 | and meditations. |
| 1:08.6 | And you may also join our free private Facebook group. |
| 1:14.5 | And to do that, probably the best way you can go on my website, of course, in any resource |
| 1:20.2 | section of any podcast or rather weekly series, or many people send me a message on Sipanome's Facebook page saying, |
| 1:33.3 | hey, please add me to the private group, and I will gladly add you there. We do weekly challenges |
| 1:40.5 | customized around the weekly theme. So this week we are doing a release and stop your distracting thoughts challenge. |
| 1:52.6 | So I've also been leaving useful tips for you to practice this week as you do the Stop Distracting Thoughts Meditation series. |
| 2:07.7 | And I've been following an article from psychology today. |
| 2:14.8 | And I link to that article on the website so you can go ahead and take a look at that |
| 2:18.9 | and the article is your brain is nagging you here are five ways to make it stop and it goes |
| 2:30.8 | through and talks about researchers have discovered that our brains need completion. |
| 2:38.0 | So distracting thoughts are usually having to do with a sense of incompletion, something that you left undone, even something relatively minor that you might |
| 2:55.6 | think is not such a big deal. In fact, I shared where there were two groups of participants |
| 3:04.6 | who were asked to complete a puzzle. The first group, as they were completing |
| 3:10.0 | a puzzle, they were taken away to work on another task, which they were allowed to complete. |
| 3:17.3 | And they were asked to make note of when they thought about the puzzle. And the second group was a group of participants who were |
| 3:30.5 | actually allowed to complete the whole puzzle. And then after they completed the puzzle, |
| 3:36.4 | they were given a different task to do and to complete. And they were asked how many times they thought of the puzzle as they were doing the other |
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