Managing Stress

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Behappy, Mental Health, Meditation, Anxiety, Sleep, Mindfulness, Alternative Health, Guidedmeditation, Health & Fitness, Focus

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Joy is not something that comes to you. It's a quality you cultivate from within. You may have forgotten your joy. If so, no worries. This week is all about cultivating your own inner joy. You will be creating touch points of joy throughout the week to remember what gives you a deep sense of sustained joy. This is part 2 of a 7-part Remembering Joy Series, episodes 2012-2018. Give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2-weeks free! Receive access to 1,900+ 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 with brand new meditations offered daily. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers.

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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 [email protected].

Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 2013 of the Daily Guided Meditation.
0:05.8	How are you doing today?
0:08.4	I'm Mary Meckley and I hope you are doing well and if you have been following along with this week's
0:18.8	series it's a brand new series we launched into this week. I hope you are cultivating inner joy.
0:27.6	That is the theme for this week's series. remembering your joy. You may not always remember what it is that makes
0:40.8	you happy. It's so easy to get caught up in the drama and
0:45.9	overwhelm of what's going on around you that you can easily forget yourself and what makes you happy.
0:58.0	In this week's series,
1:01.0	you are going to discover insight and meditation techniques to help you cultivate
1:08.2	inner joy. Joy comes from within you. It's not something that happens outside of you. It's
1:16.8	something you cultivate from within. And before I share with you an affirmation to help you cultivate inner joy, I want to share some insight from some research.
1:36.4	Scientists have discovered that when you go through
1:41.6	a great shock or trauma, you might not be able to really give voice to what you're experiencing. It can be difficult to articulate how you're
1:57.3	feeling or even what's going on or what is happening to you or the world
2:02.4	when you are in the midst of shock or trauma.
2:08.0	And I would say a pandemic such as we're going through now qualifies as trauma or shock.
2:16.7	And so in order to find your voice,
2:52.4	it can take some time. What can help you is if you draw or paint or color or write in a journal or write music or play music or dance. If you can draw from your own creative expression, this is you, your joy, your emotions. If you can draw from that, that can help you
3:02.4	to find and remember your joy.
3:07.0	So it's by being who you are that you find yourself again.
3:15.0	And I want to share with you one of my favorite quotes.
3:20.0	It's by Pablo Picasso, and I have this on a postcard right above my desk.
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