Mindfulness Affirmation

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Are you consciously aware of what you're doing right now? Or, are drifting thoughts stealing away your mental focus? Discover a mindfulness affirmation to center yourself right here, right now. You might not consider your negative thoughts as thieves. In fact, negative thoughts may steal away some of the best moments of your life. Consider the time and attention negative thoughts take away from each day of your life. In this week's series, you'll explore how to release these thieves. This week, you'll be exploring non-stealing, from Pantanjali's Yoga Sutras. This is part of a collection of meditation series focused on honoring the way you live your life. You'll focus on truthfulness to help cultivate a calmer, kinder approach to the problems in the world today. This is part 2 of a 7-part Release Negative Thoughts with the 3rd Yama Asteya meditation series episodes 2110-2116. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: You're invited to take part in a Truth Quest where every day this week you become aware of thoughts, words, and actions that aren't based on truth. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I am right here. Right now." Breathing - Inhale: Notice negative thoughts. Exhale: Release them. Mudra - Prithvi Mudra Chakra - 7th - at crown of head - unity Herb - Yerba Mate - Mental focus + energy Yoga Asana - Muktasana - Freedom Pose

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,211 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:07.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you back to our series we're exploring this week with the theme of releasing your negative
0:19.6	thoughts by exploring the yamas from Pantangulies Yoga Sutras.
0:29.0	And this is the third yama we're exploring all week long.
0:34.8	And it is Astea.
0:38.1	That's the Sanskrit word for non-stealing.
0:42.0	And that's exactly what your negative thoughts do. They steal away
0:46.1	from your mental energy and focus. They steal away from your life.
0:53.2	In fact, some of the best moments of your life
0:58.3	are lost to repetitive, negative thinking.
1:03.8	In today's episode, you are going to discover an affirmation
1:09.2	you can repeat to help ground you in the here and in the now. So it's a mindfulness affirmation. So
1:21.6	so much research continues to be done on how mindfulness affirmation can help you with
1:30.8	mental focus and it does this by calming your mind and body so that you
1:40.0	can begin to have more clarity so that your energy isn't going to restlessness
1:48.4	physically within your body or to thoughts outside of yourself, what you're worrying about in
1:59.7	regard to the world, You are focused on what's within you right here, right now. I want to
2:10.6	share with you a little insight in regard to your mental focus and this has to do with
2:21.4	what you explored in yesterday's episode.
2:26.0	That has to do with Rittis.
2:28.9	This is the Sanskrit word for a vortex or a whirlpool you could call it of your mental focus, your thoughts.
2:40.0	And we explored how to release negative thoughts in yesterday's episode and you'll be exploring that all week long using different ways and techniques to help you do that. These ancient
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