Managing a Bad Mood, Day 1 Master Your Moods Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the "Master Your Moods" 7-day meditation series. In this transformative journey, we will explore techniques and insights aimed at empowering you to take control of your emotional landscape. Backed by scientific research and ancient wisdom, each day will offer guided meditations and reflections to help you cultivate emotional resilience and inner balance.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
Go on a Mushin (No Mind) Quest:
Take part in Mushin and battle your moods like a samurai. Musashi Miyamoto is considered to be one of Japan's fiercest and most celebrated samurais. He was known to advocate for the concept of mushin, or "no-mind," in combat. It involves acting without conscious thought, free from hesitation, fear, or distraction. By training himself to enter into a state of mushin during duels and battles, Musashi could maintain emotional equilibrium and react instinctively to his opponents' movements.
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.
FREE TOOLS:
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.
Enjoy access to more than 3,000 guided meditations without ads on the Sip and Om app. Try it for 7 days of free access to the full app!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 3,243 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I |
| 0:08.4 | welcome you to a brand new series. We're launching into this week and this is a series I've |
| 0:15.4 | been wanting to share with you for a while. It is a highly requested theme and |
| 0:21.4 | what's more this theme is going to question different techniques that you can do easily and weave into your days and |
| 0:36.8 | begin to see immediate results. So I introduce to you this week's theme of mastering your moods, |
| 0:47.6 | especially your particularly bad moods. |
| 0:51.9 | And in today's episode, I want to share with you a meditation that will guide you to begin |
| 0:59.9 | a three-part process that you'll be exploring in each episode this week and this is a |
| 1:06.5 | process that is considered to be the ultimate way to manage moods and it all begins with recognizing your moods, |
| 1:18.8 | understanding them and finally responding to your emotional states. |
| 1:26.7 | You may be wondering if it's really possible to master your moods. Well the good news is that research shows it is and for you |
| 1:38.5 | here listening to a daily meditation podcast, you will be delighted to know that meditation is one of the best ways to master your moods. |
| 1:52.0 | Studies have shown that when you meditate regularly it can |
| 1:57.9 | have profound effects on how you regulate your moods and your overall emotional well-being. |
| 2:07.0 | For example, there was a meta-analysis published in J-A-M-A internal medicine and it found that mindfulness |
| 2:17.4 | meditation which I share with you here significantly reduces your symptoms of some of the top stressors, |
| 2:27.0 | including anxiety, depression, and stress in general. |
| 2:32.0 | And there was also research conducted at Harvard University that suggested |
| 2:38.0 | that meditation can actually lead to changes in your brain structure that's associated with improved mood regulation. |
| 2:51.0 | So you'll still become stressed by different triggers you encounter, but you're able to |
| 2:57.4 | manage these stress triggers much faster and much better than if you did not regularly meditate. |
| 3:08.0 | So mastering your moods is achievable and it's important to remember that just as with your meditation |
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