Gentle Self-Care

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

You've likely been stressed out, overwhelmed, distracted, and feeling like life is way too uncertain these days of pandemic and disruption. It's time to give yourself permission to slow down for some gentle self-care. In this week's series, you're going to be nourishing your mind, body, and soul. In each episode, you're going to be guided with a different meditation technique each day especially customized for the kind of gentle self-care you've likely been putting off. Get ready to feel less depleted and more nourished! THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Do one thing each day to give yourself some gentle self-care. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I nourish myself." Breathing - Inhale your needs, exhale attachments Mudra - Lotus - open up to something new in your life Chakra - 1st - feel more grounded Herb - Passionflower - release tension Yoga Asana - Padahastasana - Standing Forward Bend

This is part 1 of a 7-part Gentle Self-Care, episodes 1045-1051.

You'll find additional daily support and a weekly guide with the meditation techniques for each theme at sip.and.om Instagram. You'll find deeper, longer daily 30-minute guided meditations on the Sip and Om meditation app. I invite you to try it for 2-weeks absolutely free! Receive access to 2,000+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from 300+ 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. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers.

2 weeks for access to the iOS version:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sip-and-om/id1216664612?platform=iphone&preserveScrollPosition=true#platform/iphone

2 weeks free access to the Android version:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sipandom.sipandom

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 Mary@sipandom.com.

Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,000.45 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and here you are giving
0:09.7	yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.
0:18.8	And that is no small feat these days you might find it more challenging to settle yourself down and focus
0:29.3	on a little more peace, energy, or clarity.
0:34.0	There's a lot happening out there in the world.
0:39.0	But how are you doing managing your emotions, managing your hope, your joy?
0:50.0	This week we launch into a brand new series. It's a series about how to gently care for yourself. You're probably worrying about a lot of things, worrying
1:07.4	about the people in your lives. You're doing all kinds of things to keep yourself safe during a pandemic, taking care of your physical health.
1:18.0	This is going to be a week to help you take care of your mental and emotional health.
1:26.3	All week long, you will be caring for yourself.
1:41.2	And life goes on. So along with some extra focus that's taking place in your life right now with world events and everything happening out there.
1:49.2	There's things going on in your life with loved ones and in your inner circle. So this is a series for
1:59.7	you if you feel stuck in a job or in a relationship or maybe with putting off how you'd really
2:11.8	like to be caring for yourself so that you are living a more balanced lifestyle.
2:20.0	This is a series to slow down and begin to do one thing each day to support yourself.
2:32.0	This is your challenge for the week. Every day this week, I challenge
2:39.2	you to do the meditation technique you'll be discovering each day.
2:45.0	Each technique is customized to be gentle with yourself and to give yourself some badly needed self-care.
2:55.0	You might want to focus on one specific part of your life this week
3:02.0	and go a little more deeply into this part of your life where you do something each day this week that supports you. For example, maybe it has to do with your health.
3:16.2	So you do something good for your health. Maybe you're going to walk three times this week in nature and then you're going to meditate a little longer a few times this week and you're going to relax by soaking in a warm bath with essential oils where you light a candle
3:40.1	and listen to soft music and do a meditation technique.
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