Inner Awareness, 7 Simplicity + Moderation
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Improve your life in gentle steps as you reflect on how you lived your life this week. Gain awareness as to how you're spending your valuable time and energy.
This week you are exploring the grace and peace of simplicity and moderation. Discover the ancient art of the fourth Yama from the classic writings of the Yoga Sutras. This series is a replay of a popular collection of series from the Yamas of the Yoga Sutras. Every day this week you are greeted with a meditation technique and insight to guide you on a path of simplicity and moderation. Get ready to experience more clarity as you begin to live more in moderation.
This is day 7 of a 7-day meditation series, Simplicity and Moderation with the Fourth Yama of the Yoga Sutras, episodes 2117-2123.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 2123 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Mary Mechley. |
| 0:11.0 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:12.0 | I welcome you as you give yourself a little more peace, energy, and clarity. |
| 0:20.0 | And as you get ready to settle yourself down and meditate or maybe as you go about your day |
| 0:27.0 | and simply do the meditation technique I share with you today, it's all good. |
| 0:34.0 | Honor yourself exactly where you are. |
| 0:38.0 | I remember for myself, I didn't start meditating where I would sit down and formally meditate. |
| 0:47.0 | For a couple of years after I was exposed to meditation, it took me a while to slow down |
| 0:55.0 | and begin to notice that inner stillness within myself, to where I wanted more and more, |
| 1:02.0 | to where I would meditate longer and longer. |
| 1:05.0 | So it's a journey, it's a process, and you are in the right place. |
| 1:12.0 | In today's episode, you're going to be guided in what I consider to be one of the most valuable techniques |
| 1:21.0 | you could include on your meditation journey, and that is when you reflect on your week. |
| 1:30.0 | If you could do this nightly as you go to bed at night, this can be a ritual that brings so much awareness and insight |
| 1:42.0 | into how you live your life. |
| 1:45.0 | In fact, many great spiritual leaders are reported to do this exact technique, including the Dalai Lama. |
| 1:55.0 | We continue with our theme this week, where we are exploring the Yamas of the Yoga Sutras. |
| 2:04.0 | The Yoga Sutras. |
| 2:06.0 | It's a great work written by the ancient Indian sage Pantanjali. |
| 2:13.0 | And he shares Yamas as a way to rightly live your life. |
| 2:24.0 | Yoga means union, and when you begin to practice the different sutras, the Yamas being one limb of entire concept on how to live your life, |
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