Knowing When Stress is Taking a Toll on Your Wellbeing, Day 4 Emotional Regulation
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes stress can actually be beneficial, but it's also important to recognize when it becomes too much and find ways to let it go.
This week, in each episode, you're guided in meditation sessions to focus on cultivating self-awareness, mindfulness, and techniques for managing and channeling emotions in a healthy way, ultimately fostering a sense of emotional balance and well-being.
This is part 4 of a 7-part Series Emotional Regulation, Episodes 2959-2965.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
Practice a meditation technique for at least 5 minutes a day to manage a top stressor you're experiencing in your life.
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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Episode 2,972 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | I am Mary Mechley and it is my honor to guide you in today's insight followed by your meditation. |
| 0:18.3 | And remember, there's a different technique in each episode and these techniques are all customized for the week's theme. |
| 0:29.8 | So you are guided today with a technique that I know is a favorite for many of you. |
| 0:39.8 | I hear from many of you letting me know that you enjoy mudras. |
| 0:45.7 | Many of you tell me you didn't really know what a mudra was, but now that you know what a mudra is, you do them all day long. |
| 0:55.2 | So I want to share with you the option to do today's technique. |
| 1:00.2 | Now remember, this is a week where you are regulating your emotions. |
| 1:08.0 | It is like a bootcamp where I'm playing the music a little longer so that you can get in that 10, 15 minutes of regulating your emotions. |
| 1:21.4 | It is the training and the practice that allows experts who are able to manage their stress and completely eradicate it during some of the most very stressful situations you could experience, such as a life or death situation. |
| 1:42.4 | Maybe you're saving someone, maybe you are an emergency personnel or maybe you are in the military and the special forces. |
| 1:55.6 | Maybe you have a very stressful job. |
| 2:00.3 | I think that an air traffic controller would be a very stressful job. |
| 2:04.2 | So wherever you could imagine stress to linger, you can eradicate that stress. |
| 2:10.6 | People do it all the time and I want to mention to you as your insight for today that the goal is not to suppress the stress, to push it down and act like it doesn't exist. |
| 2:25.4 | The goal is to accept your stress and go through it, work with it, but get to the point where it's not disruptive to your life. |
| 2:40.1 | Now what I mean by this is if you're experiencing a really stressful situation that you're noticing brings you great distress, well, it may be time to begin to ease away from that stress. |
| 2:58.0 | It's not as though you may even have the option to eliminate the stressful situation from your life, but you can eliminate your stress response. |
| 3:14.2 | So you may be going through another situation where, for example, maybe you're dealing with a difficulty with a left one and it causes you great stress. |
| 3:26.1 | But it's not something you want to show up to some kind of interaction with this left one and not experience the stress, you want to be fully emotionally available to this person, which includes stress. |
| 3:44.6 | So in this case, you may find that you're able to work with the stress, you still have it, but you're able to manage it and work with it. |
| 3:55.7 | So how do you eradicate this stress? Well, you practice it and that is exactly what you're doing in this week's series. |
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