Listening To Your Needs

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

You've likely been stressed out, overwhelmed, distracted, and feeling like life is uncertain these days of pandemic and disruption. It's time to give yourself permission to slow down for some gentle self-care. In this week's series, you're going to be nourishing your mind, body, and soul. In each episode, you're going to be guided with a different meditation technique each day especially customized for the kind of gentle self-care you've likely been putting off. Get ready to feel less depleted and more nourished! THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Do one thing each day to give yourself some gentle self-care. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I nourish myself." Breathing - Inhale your needs, exhale attachments Mudra - Lotus - open up to something new in your life Chakra - 1st - feel more grounded Herb - Passionflower - release tension Yoga Asana - Padahastasana - Standing Forward Bend

This is part 4 of a 7-part Gentle Self-Care, episodes 1045-1051.

You'll find additional daily support and a weekly guide with the meditation techniques for each theme at sip.and.om Instagram. You'll find deeper, longer daily 30-minute guided meditations on the Sip and Om meditation app. I invite you to try it for 2-weeks absolutely free! Receive access to 2,000+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from 300+ series to fit your mood with a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each theme. Brand new themes are introduced each week. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers.

2 weeks for access to the iOS version:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sip-and-om/id1216664612?platform=iphone&preserveScrollPosition=true#platform/iphone

2 weeks free access to the Android version:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sipandom.sipandom

All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to Mary@sipandom.com.

Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,048 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:07.0	I'm Mary Meckley and here you are showing up for yourself doing one of the best things you could possibly do for
0:16.8	yourself as you give yourself a little more peace, energy, and clarity today. How are you doing? I wonder how you're doing with your
0:26.3	challenge in each week's series. I share a challenge with you and this is what you can do each day. This can
0:38.4	attune you to the theme we're exploring this week. I know it's not always easy to sit down every single day in stillness,
0:48.8	especially these days because there are a lot of distractions and a lot of things happening.
0:56.0	But if you could even on those days when you just can't really find time to sit in stillness. Do the challenge. Your challenge this week is to do something
1:11.2	kind to nourish yourself each and every day.
1:18.3	Our theme this week is all about self-care in a gentle way. It's been pretty harsh lately. It's pretty harsh
1:27.8	out there dealing with a pandemic and fear and uncertainty.
1:33.6	This is happening on a global scale.
1:37.6	So you are doing such a good thing for yourself being right here.
1:45.0	So my challenge for you today as you sit in stillness
1:50.0	is to do today's meditation technique, which is a mudra.
1:55.0	A mudra is a way you position your hands
1:59.0	that activates a corresponding region of your brain.
2:05.0	So when you do the Mutra, for today,
2:10.0	it is going to help you tap into your inner truth.
2:16.0	You'll position your hands as if you're holding a lotus flower,
2:22.0	as if your hands actually represent a lotus pedal. Now you can take a
2:28.4	look at what the moojo looks like over on the sipIP. and dot ome Instagram page I share a full slowdown guide containing each technique you are exploring this week. So you might enjoy that guide.
2:50.3	That way you can tap into your gentle self-care needs anytime you need to.
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