Ground Yourself

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

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

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Inhale love. Exhale peace as you are guided with the wisdom of c.s. lewis and his book, "The Four Loves." This is part 3 of a 7-part Embracing Love meditation series, episodes 1697-1703. For full guided meditations, give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2 weeks free. Receive access to 1,800+ 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. All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content unless otherwise specified. 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 1,69.
0:05.0	Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:09.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for being here as you get ready to slow down and
0:17.7	Connect to the best part of who you are as you meditate.
0:28.3	In today's episode, we continue along with our series on love and this is a series with a focus on
0:40.9	love that you have for those people who are familiar in your lives,
0:50.0	family members, friends, neighbors.
0:55.3	It's not about romantic love, it's about the affection you feel for even things in your life that are familiar,
1:08.0	maybe your favorite comfortable sweater or a scent that reminds you of home or of happy memories.
1:20.0	And these are features in your life that make up the very fabric of your life. And we've been following along with the insight of
1:38.0	CS Lewis in his book for loves. And the first love he talks about is this familiar love.
1:52.0	He says that this familiar love builds the foundation for love in your life.
2:05.0	And this is from chapter 3 of his book,
2:10.0	The Four Loves, and it's titled affection.
2:15.0	Before I guide you in today's meditation technique which is a breathing technique one of the most
2:26.7	powerful techniques you could do to instantly calm your mind and body. I will share with you first some insight from
2:40.5	CS Lewis's book. So as he talks about affection, he mentions that affection has its own criteria to be familiar. We can sometimes point to the very day an hour when we fell in love or began a new
3:07.8	friendship. But I doubt if we'll ever catch affection beginning.
3:14.7	To become aware of it is to become aware that it has already been going on for some time. To use the old term of affection is significant. The dog barks at strangers who have never done any harm and it wax its tail for old
3:39.7	acquaintances even if they never did it a good turn.
3:44.0	The child will love a crusty old gardener,
3:48.0	who has hardly ever taken any notice of it,
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