Master Your Most Challenging Emotions, Day 6 Master Your Emotions Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Be guided with meditation techniques to master your most difficult emotions.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 3,048 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm |
| 0:08.4 | welcoming you to day six of this series we're exploring this week all about mastering your moods and |
| 0:17.4 | it is possible to master your moods so think of those moods that seem to haunt you. You can master these moods and in |
| 0:27.1 | today's episode you're going to be guided as you layer together the meditation techniques we've been exploring all week long. |
| 0:37.2 | You're also going to be guided as you let go of a difficult emotion you may have been working with for a while. |
| 0:45.0 | And for your insight today, I want to check in with you to see how you're doing |
| 0:52.0 | with this week's challenge. This week's challenge has you doing an |
| 0:57.6 | ancient samurai technique called machine. And machine means no mind refers to is you automatically responding to difficult interactions you have with others, to dealing with |
| 1:17.8 | difficult situations you encounter throughout your day, for all the different stressors you come across day in and day out, and |
| 1:27.5 | also for the difficult emotions you may battle all on your own and it's often what we think as we wake up in the |
| 1:37.7 | morning as we go through our day as we go to bed at night it may be that you are thinking different thoughts and you're in an |
| 1:46.3 | emotional state that you yourself caused simply with your thoughts. So this can be the most difficult battle of all, that |
| 1:57.2 | inner battle and that is what the ancient samurai worked with as they pursued Mochine. |
| 2:04.9 | And you can do this too where you enter into a state of emotional equilibrium and you react instinctively where you don't have to think |
| 2:16.6 | about the mood you're in or what triggered it you've already considered that well in advance and likely you've |
| 2:25.9 | considered it right here as you meditate. Meditation is one of the most effective ways to develop a machine mindset. So I invite you now to |
| 2:39.6 | settle yourself down and I'll guide you through this process. So as you sit up straight as always, |
| 2:47.6 | make sure you're nice and comfortable and alert. That's why straightening your spine is important because it helps to keep you alert. |
| 2:57.5 | And then gently close your eyes, elevating them ever so slightly upwards. Now tune into your emotional state right now. Notice the rhythm and flow of your breath. mentally affirm the affirmation. I embrace both light and shadow with equanimity. |
| 3:49.3 | I embrace both light and shadow with equanimity. You may place your hands in the diamond |
| 3:59.6 | mudra that the samurai often placed their hands in this |
| 4:05.0 | mud where you interlock your fingers of both hands so your fingers are |
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