Increase Your Mental Focus, Day 6 Your Focused Mind
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
"Neuroscientists have discovered that unproductivity and loss of drive can result from decision overload."
~ Neuroscientist, Dr. Daniel J. Levitin
Are you finding it hard to focus these days? If so, you're not alone. As we endure the ongoing pandemic, our lives require more focused thought in order to keep abreast of how to stay safe. This week, you'll be guided using meditation techniques to help you focus your mind on what matters most. We'll be following along with the book, "The Organized Mind," by neuroscientist, Dr. Daniel J. Levitin.
This is day 4 of a 7-day meditation series, The Focused Mind, episodes 2376-2382.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE
Good Enough Quest
Begin to notice the time you waste on decisions that don't matter. Allow unimportant things in your life to be good enough. Spend your best time and energy on what matters most.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Episode 2,381 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome back to Day 6 of our series. |
| 0:12.2 | We are at the next to the last episode of the theme we're exploring this week, |
| 0:17.6 | your focused mind. |
| 0:21.6 | And we've been following along with the book called The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitan. |
| 0:29.8 | In this week's series, you've also had a special challenge. |
| 0:35.2 | This is a challenge where you allow yourself to go on a good enough quest, |
| 0:45.0 | saving time and energy which your neurons require for those tasks and things in your life |
| 0:55.7 | that matter most. |
| 0:57.8 | In today's episode, I'm going to share with you another principle from the book The Organized Mind. |
| 1:06.7 | And then I'm going to guide you through a meditation where you layer together the meditation techniques |
| 1:15.2 | from the whole week. |
| 1:17.2 | This is a wonderful way to meditate. |
| 1:20.1 | When you layer the techniques together, you often go into a deeper, longer guided meditation |
| 1:28.5 | because you allow yourself to unwind and relax a little more with each technique that you layer on. |
| 1:38.1 | So I call this a flow meditation. |
| 1:41.3 | So today it's a focus flow. |
| 1:44.9 | I want to think our sponsor, better help, better help is an app that can help you. |
| 1:56.3 | When you feel you need a little extra support these days, especially as we continue through a pandemic. |
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| 2:12.6 | And within 24 hours, you can be connected with your own licensed professional therapist. |
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