Inner Balance, Day 4 Living a Balanced Life Meditations

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Be guided on a journey to foster a lasting sense of inner equilibrium and well-being.

Welcome to the "Living a Balanced Life" Meditation Series, a transformative journey dedicated to cultivating balance and well-being in every aspect of your life. In this series, we'll explore the art of harmonizing mind, body, and spirit to foster a sense of equilibrium and fulfillment.

Life often pulls us in different directions, and finding balance can be a challenge. Through these guided meditations, we aim to create a sanctuary where you can center yourself, tap into your inner wisdom, and discover the beauty of living in alignment with your truest self.

Each session will focus on specific aspects of life, offering mindfulness techniques, visualizations, and affirmations to promote balance. Whether you're seeking tranquility amid chaos, balance in your relationships, or harmony in your daily routine, this series is designed to be your companion on the journey to a more balanced and centered life.

Join us as we embark on this exploration of "Harmony Within," and may you find serenity, balance, and a renewed sense of purpose along the way.

This is part 4 of a 7-part meditation series titled Living the Balanced Life, 1942-1948.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:

CHOP WOOD CARRY WATER QUEST

Focus on basic, everyday tasks—symbolized by chopping wood and carrying water—as a means to ground yourself so that external temptations that might compromise your integrity don't tempt you.

A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:

You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.

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For free meditation tools to help you start meditating please head over to my website at www.SipandOm.com, and there you'll find a multitude of free resources to help you on your Meditation Journey.

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***All meditations are Mary Meckley's original copyrighted content unless otherwise stated, and may not be shared without her written permission.

RESOURCES

Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.

I'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU

I'd love your feedback! Please let me know how you're enjoying the meditations by leaving me a review on iTunes.

**All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information, or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any kind of medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy, or clarity you may experience as you meditate!

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,945.
0:05.0	Welcome to your daily guided meditation.
0:11.0	Mary still has laryngitis and is unable to speak. So she wrote down for me
0:18.7	what to say today in regards to this week's themes, virtues. So I'm going to read for you now what Mary has
0:26.7	prepared for you. So here we go. How are you doing with your daily challenge? Are you gifting yourself at virtue every day?
0:37.0	In yesterday's episode, we explored the virtue of charity. How were you terrible to yourself?
0:45.0	I gave myself the grace of downtime yesterday since I've been sick.
0:50.0	Sometimes when I'm sick I don't allow myself to really rest and allow myself to heal.
0:56.9	I'm not a very good patient.
0:59.6	I've never completely lost my voice before so I realized that I truly needed to rest.
1:06.9	Today's virtue is diligence with the opposing quality of sloth. A definition I like of diligence is careful and persistent work or effort.
1:18.9	Do you work with diligence at what you do? What kinds of activities provide you the most diligence.
1:25.0	I've noticed that people who perform with the most diligence
1:29.0	often do so because they feel like they're part of something bigger than themselves.
1:35.0	When I lived in Japan, the culture is attuned to performing at one's best because it's a reflection of the overall society.
1:43.0	Service there was unusually excellent.
1:46.0	Diligence is highly revered and rewarded in Japan.
1:49.0	An example of Sloth reminds me of when recently I was traveling in another state and we stopped at a restaurant.
1:58.0	My friend and I were the only customers in the restaurant, the person working at the counter, took our order and half-heartedly
2:06.4	delivered it to us. There was very little customer service, no smile, no thanks. She just shoved our order at us and ignored us the rest of the time.
2:17.0	There wasn't one clean table in the restaurant.
2:21.0	When we asked her if we could have a clean rag to clean off the table,
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