Journey to Inner Balance, Day 2 Living the Balanced Life Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
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🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Be guided in a meditation to cultivate harmonious living.
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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,943 of your daily guided meditation. |
| 0:08.0 | How are you doing? |
| 0:10.0 | I hope you had a chance to do your daily challenge and consider how you will gift yourself a different virtue |
| 0:25.0 | yesterday |
| 0:28.0 | yesterday was to dress more modestly |
| 0:32.0 | to dress more modestly. I live in a semi-tropical climate in Florida where pretty much |
| 0:39.6 | year-round it's very casual and because it's very warm here it's very acceptable to go to a |
| 0:50.4 | store or a restaurant or even a more refined event and look more like you're going to the beach. |
| 0:59.6 | So I gifted myself a new item of clothing. I bought a new dress. This was an actual gift, but your |
| 1:10.5 | gift to yourself could simply be a quiet moment to reflect or thinking about |
| 1:19.2 | beautiful thoughts if you were trying to become more chased in your thoughts. |
| 1:26.8 | You could have read from a book of poetry or something inspirational. |
| 1:38.0 | So don't forget the daily challenge to gift yourself. |
| 1:50.3 | In today's episode, you will be exploring the virtue of temperance as opposed to the deadly sin of greed. So when you think about what temperance means to you and how it can |
| 1:59.5 | apply to your life you might want to consider where you could have more restraint and |
| 2:09.4 | moderation. This could be in regard to how much you drink, for example, if you drink alcohol, or how much you eat, how much time you exercise |
| 2:25.0 | time you spend on social media or on YouTube. Think about areas in your life where you could cut back. You might |
| 2:39.5 | want to think about how you could have more temperance in regard to how many hours you work each day or how much money you spend. |
| 2:51.5 | So you could even put yourself on a budget if you need to if this is what would make you feel as though you were living with more moderation. |
| 3:02.0 | The deadly sin is greed. This is the opposing quality of |
| 3:11.7 | temperance. So think about where you feel like you might be |
| 3:18.4 | experiencing greed in your life. This could even have to do with something that seems pretty |
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