Managing Distracting Thoughts from Negative News, Day 1: Processing Negative News" meditation series

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our 7-day meditation series, "Processing Negative News: A Journey to Inner Focus." In this series, we will explore techniques to help you avoid distractions, particularly those from social media and negative news, which can disrupt your peace and lead to negative feelings. By practicing mindfulness and inner focus, you can reclaim your mental space and navigate the day with clarity and positivity.

This is episode 1 of this week's 7-day meditation series, "Processing Negative News" 3121-3127.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Negative News Filter Quest:

When you encounter negative news, ask yourself, "How can I use this information?" "how does it make me feel?" "How can i be of service?"

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

Get ready for an exciting journey with a new meditation technique every day, perfectly tailored to the week's theme! Infuse these powerful practices into the most stressful moments of your day to master difficult emotions. These dynamic techniques will help you tame the "monkey mind," keeping your thoughts from interrupting your meditation and bringing peace and focus to your life.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 3,121 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and as always I'm so
0:11.5	honored to welcome you here as you get ready to welcome you here as you get ready to give yourself permission to slow down.
0:20.0	And this allows you to tune into your inner stillness for more peace, clarity, and energy.
0:27.0	And we're launching into a brand new series.
0:31.0	This is day one of a series that is by popular request from a fellow meditator Marlene who is listening all the way from Cape Town South Africa.
0:47.0	She reached out on my Sip and Ome, Instagram, and you can reach out to me there too. You can send me a direct message.
0:56.7	And by the way, I plan to finally become active on my social media accounts. I've always felt like since I record a daily
1:06.1	meditation for you we touch base you and I daily. Well I do know that many of you enjoy social media as well. So I plan to connect with you there and I look forward to meeting you. So look for that soon.
1:22.0	Marlene has allowed me to share her message. forward to meeting you so look for that soon.
1:22.6	Marlene has allowed me to share her message with you I always ask permission first.
1:28.0	She says I wanted to know how one overcomes the feeling when listening to negative things like news or social media posts.
1:40.0	They seem to pop up when you are not even following them, but they really affect me, and even when I try to not listen, even the few seconds, or even hearing one negative word, can put me down for hours.
1:55.0	How do I overcome things like this in life?
1:58.0	Hope this makes sense.
2:00.0	Well, it absolutely makes sense to me. I experienced the same thing, and I'm sure it likely makes sense to you as well.
2:10.0	So I decided that this will be a week that follows the theme from last week.
2:17.4	So you can always go back and listen to last week's series on the art of listening. If you didn't have a chance to listen to that.
2:25.0	Well in that series you learned tactics each day and meditation techniques to help you listen better. Well you could consider this
2:36.7	week's series as how to filter your listening skills, how to filter your attention, and as you do so you are
2:48.4	invited to go on a challenge where you become like a warrior for your listening skills and you're
2:57.0	going to apply some of the same tactics from last week to help you create a negative news filter.
3:07.0	So this is how you do it. This will be an important challenge for you. In fact, it's required. So this is required homework for you.
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