Happiness Affirmation Meditation Day 2
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
"Following your techniques helps me a lot in my consistent meditation routine. I'm continuously learning about the brain and neuroplasticity." ~ Your fellow meditator Jackie, a Counselor from Egypt
What could you do in just 10-minutes a day to improve your mood? Meditation will do the trick... and so will journaling about happiness. In this week's series, you're guided on a Happiness journey following along with the guidelines of Dr. Sandi Mann, a psychologist from Manchester UK who wrote a book called, "10-Minutes to Happiness, A Journal that Will Change Your Life."
In each episode, you'll discover a time-tested question to boost your happiness that you can Journal about and also reflect on as you meditate.
This is day 2 of a 7-day 10-Minutes of Happiness meditation series, episodes 2208-2214. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: You're invited to take part in a 10-Minutes of Happiness Journaling Quest. You're encouraged to journal about happiness every day this week. No worries if you're not a big fan of journaling! You can simply sit in 10-minutes of stillness as you reflect on the day's happiness question. Each day's question will be released on each episode this week, so be sure to listen in for each question! The questions are designed and tested by a psychologist, Dr. Sandi Mann of the MindTraining Clinic in Manchester UK. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Day 1: Happiness Awareness Visualization Day 2: Affirmation "Joy is all around me." Day 3: Inhale happiness, Exhale spreading happiness within Day 4: Apan Mudra technique Day 5: Second Chakra Focus Day 6: Layer the week's techniques together Day 7: Weekly Reflection Meditation SHARE YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEDITATORS Let's connect and inspire each other! Please share a little about how meditation has helped you by reaching out to me at Mary@SipandOm.com or better yet -- direct message me on https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om. We'd love to hear about your meditation ritual!SUBSCRIBE, LEAVE A REVIEW + TAKE OUR SURVEY
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,209 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to day two of our series we're exploring this week. This is a week of happiness, 10 minutes of happiness. |
| 0:19.2 | And as you go through this week's series, you are discovering a different meditation technique |
| 0:27.4 | in each episode, as always, to help you find a sense of inner joy and happiness. |
| 0:37.0 | And you have a challenge this week. |
| 0:41.0 | You are going on a happiness quest. This is a challenge where you are |
| 0:47.6 | encouraged to keep a journal or to reflect on a question each day. |
| 0:55.4 | These are questions created and tested |
| 1:00.6 | by a psychologist Dr. Sandy Mann, who has the mind training clinic in Manchester, UK. |
| 1:19.0 | By spending just 10 minutes completing your happiness journal each day, you will build up a record of your experiences in six different ways. I'm going to share with you |
| 1:28.0 | seven areas. In yesterday's episode, your question had to do with pleasure or true joy. |
| 1:38.0 | And your question was to reflect on and to write in your journal things that you enjoyed that day. In today's |
| 1:49.4 | episode and for your day-to challenge question it has to do with positive strokes |
| 1:56.7 | reflect on and write in your journal the praise or feedback that you received during the day. |
| 2:07.0 | If you're just starting your day, you could think about the praise or feedback that you received yesterday. |
| 2:15.0 | You may already have received some kind of good vibes from someone |
| 2:20.0 | this morning if you are meditating. You're going to be guided in a meditation |
| 2:27.4 | today where you repeat an affirmation. Affirmations are positive statements |
| 2:35.8 | that help you to focus your mind on your intention. |
| 2:40.1 | Your intention is happiness. |
| 2:43.6 | So go ahead now and settle yourself down, |
| 2:47.7 | making yourself nice and comfortable. |
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