Give Your Life a Reset

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Things likely weren't as rosy as we remember them to be pre-COVID. Uncertainty brings opportunity to evaluate how you are living your life and what you want your life to be like. This is part 7 of a 7-part Surviving Uncertainty meditation series episodes 2082-2088. The best time to prepare for an emergency is before it happens. One of the biggest impacts of the current global pandemic has been on mental health. Throughout this week's series, you'll explore strategies to manage your emotions during COVID-19. You'll discover how to support your mental health throughout the pandemic with simple meditation techniques and mindfulness to see the light at the end of the tunnel. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Be the rock for someone. Be the person who is calm and at peace during difficult times. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "Peace is within me." Breathing - Inhale: Peace Exhale: tension Mudra - Gyan Mudra Chakra - 4th - at heart - compassion Herb - Lavender - sleep + relaxation Yoga Asana - Uttanasana - Standing Forward Bend

This is part 4 of a 7-part Surviving Uncertainty meditation series episodes 2082-2088.

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 20088 of your daily guided meditation. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to the final episode. You've been following along all week long on our theme we've
0:17.0	been exploring and that is the theme of surviving uncertainty. We're all experiencing this global pandemic together and we're
0:28.0	surviving it the best we can. We've had a few months to get used to what is, as people call it, a new normal.
0:41.2	But in this week's series you've discovered ways to allow yourself to progress
0:48.6	and enjoy your life regardless of what is going on around you. And we've been following some
0:56.0	strategies from an author who wrote an article, Dr. Perlmutter, wrote an article in Psychology today and I've taken you through his five strategies
1:09.8	to adapt to uncertainty in a way that's positive in a way that you actually
1:16.7	continue to thrive and learn and grow and get excited about things and have the full range of human emotions you
1:28.0	were used to experiencing when there's not a pandemic going on. So if your summer vacation plans have been cancelled,
1:37.4	you can still enjoy some areas around you that you might not have thought about exploring right where you live
1:47.7	or reaching out to people to connect that maybe you don't know so well, you can still get together and meet them.
1:58.1	You've also explored how to look at this time in a different way to refocus and reframe and rewire, which is what
2:08.8	you're doing at this moment.
2:11.0	You are rewiring your brain each time you sit down to meditate.
2:17.0	Meditation is one of the best ways to help you manage difficult circumstances in your life. I will share with you the final strategy,
2:29.3	and that is the strategy called Reset. In the article, the author talks about how at this moment many things are outside our control.
2:42.0	So our typical routines outside our
2:43.0	typical routines, especially for children starting back to school,
2:49.4	college age students, teachers, parents who have children in school and may be homeschooling them or
2:57.0	the parents are going to work and their children are staying home, learning online by themselves.
3:05.0	There's a whole range of different situations worldwide we are all experiencing.
3:10.0	And in this week, we started off this series with an interview with a teacher Joseph
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