How to Manage Difficult Emotions

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Learning to manage difficult emotions is key to remaining calm during trying times. Discover how you respond emotionally when your parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system is triggered. You might not consider your negative thoughts as thieves. In fact, negative thoughts may steal away some of the best moments of your life. Consider the time and attention negative thoughts take away from each day of your life. In this week's series, you'll explore how to release these thieves. This week, you'll be exploring non-stealing, from Pantanjali's Yoga Sutras. This is part of a collection of meditation series focused on honoring the way you live your life. You'll focus on truthfulness to help cultivate a calmer, kinder approach to the problems in the world today. This is part 6 of a 7-part Release Negative Thoughts with the 3rd Yama Asteya meditation series episodes 2110-2116. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: You're invited to take part in a Confidence Quest where every day this week you become aware of how your emotional states impact your confidence. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I am right here. Right now." Breathing - Inhale: Notice negative thoughts. Exhale: Release them. Mudra - Prithvi Mudra Chakra - 7th - at crown of head - unity Herb - Yerba Mate - Mental focus + energy Yoga Asana - Muktasana - Freedom Pose

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0:00.0	This is episode 2, 115 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:07.0	I'm Mary Meckley, and I welcome you to day six of our series we've been exploring this week all about the third yama from
0:20.1	the ancient Indian sage Pantanjali who wrote a classic book, The Yoga Sutras, and in the book,
0:32.0	He shares five yamas and five nyamas. We've been exploring the yamas.
0:40.7	The yamas are a way to live correctly, to live mindfully in the moment and we are exploring the third yama this week. The third yama has to do with non-stealing and mostly in regard to how we live our modern life, we often let our negative thoughts
1:12.3	steal away from our joy in the present moment.
1:17.6	You might feel as though you're not enough.
1:23.5	And imagine how much this robs you
1:26.9	of the richness and joy and opportunities
1:29.9	available in your life.
1:33.1	So throughout this week, you've explored meditation techniques
1:37.4	to help you release these negative thoughts, words, and actions that take away from the quality of your life.
1:49.3	In today's episode, we are at the very end of our series, just one more day after today, and I like to share
1:58.8	with you a way to layer together the different meditation techniques you've been exploring all week long
2:07.6	so that you can see how to put these techniques,
2:15.0	you might think, I layer several techniques together.
2:17.6	Meditation techniques, you might think,
2:20.8	are not so necessary. But if you've ever tried to sit down, close your eyes, and
2:27.6	instantly be transported into a state of stillness, you may realize it is a little more challenging than it looks.
2:38.0	So, meditation techniques help you transition from whatever you were doing out there in the
2:48.9	world to a state of inner stillness. So they help you become more interiorized, letting go of the
2:59.2	distractions, and focus more on the mindful moment.
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