Mindfulness for Focus, Day 7 Your Focused Mind
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
"A calm well-rested mind is a fruitful mind."
~ Neuroscientist, Dr. Daniel J. Levitin
Are you finding it hard to focus these days? If so, you're not alone. As we endure the ongoing pandemic, our lives require more focused thought in order to keep abreast of how to stay safe. This week, you'll be guided using meditation techniques to help you focus your mind on what matters most. We'll be following along with the book, "The Organized Mind," by neuroscientist, Dr. Daniel J. Levitin.
This is day 7 of a 7-day meditation series, The Focused Mind, episodes 2376-2382.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE
Good Enough Quest
Begin to notice the time you waste on decisions that don't matter. Allow unimportant things in your life to be good enough. Spend your best time and energy on what matters most.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Episode 2,382 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you back to our series. |
| 0:11.8 | We're exploring this week all week long. |
| 0:16.0 | You have been discovering how to focus your mind and we've been following along with |
| 0:23.8 | the book by Daniel Levitan called the Organized Mind. |
| 0:30.7 | You have had a challenge this week as you do every week. |
| 0:36.4 | Your challenge has been to go on a quest to focus your mind on what matters most by going |
| 0:46.0 | on a good enough quest. |
| 0:49.7 | How is your quest coming along? |
| 0:53.1 | Are you finding that certain things that are not so critically important in your life |
| 0:59.1 | are good enough if you don't spend so much time thinking about them? |
| 1:06.2 | So spending only as much time on decisions and tasks and actions as they are worth. |
| 1:17.4 | I also hope that you've enjoyed spending two minutes on those things that might cause |
| 1:26.0 | you fear or worry or you find yourself procrastinating about. |
| 1:32.1 | Spending two minutes, Daniel Levitan says, can help you feel as though you're making progress |
| 1:39.6 | and moving forward on these tasks you want to accomplish or to do something to help |
| 1:46.5 | yourself feel better when you're experiencing fear or worry. |
| 1:51.4 | And I know there's a lot of that out there these days more than at any time that we likely |
| 1:58.4 | have ever experienced before. |
| 2:01.3 | But this is a time for you also to rediscover what matters most to you and that has been |
| 2:09.9 | an underlying focus throughout the entire week's series. |
| 2:14.6 | We are on day seven, the final episode of our seven part series. |
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