New Year's Meditation
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
New Year's Day brand new beginnings meditation.
As always, you don't have to do the meditation techniques -- they are simply there to help you transition from your busy day to a state of stillness. The techniques also help to calm "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.
For free meditation tools to help you start meditating please head over to my website at www.SipandOm.com, and there you'll find a multitude of free resources to help you on your Meditation Journey.
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*a Free Meditation Bundle to get started meditating
*a Free Sleep Technique to Sleep Better
*a Free Instant Calm Breathing Technique
*a Free Guide to Get Started Meditating.
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**All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any kind of medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy or clarity you may experience as you meditate!
Transcript
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| 0:30.5 | In today's episode, which is episode 574, I want to wish you a happy new year. This is the first day of a brand new year. What will you do with it? What will you make of this year? It's a clean slate for you. |
| 0:34.0 | So in today's guided meditation you're going to be guided meditation you're going to be guided as you set an intention |
| 0:38.0 | for the new year. |
| 0:40.0 | Now you may have done the New Year's Eve meditation yesterday and that was a |
| 0:47.3 | meditation on closure. I hope you had a beautiful New Year's last night and that you're ready to begin a brand new year. |
| 0:57.0 | So as you do so, I'd like to encourage you again to have a candle. There's something about candle light, fire. We have |
| 1:10.1 | a primordial fascination with it and it gives us a sense of sacredness and as you |
| 1:18.3 | begin a new year and set your intentions, this will influence the whole rest of your year. And I also encourage you to have a |
| 1:30.8 | journal nearby any kind of notebook or some place to write down your |
| 1:37.2 | intentions and then I encourage you to keep your intentions near you where you can see them often throughout the year. |
| 1:48.1 | You might want to put them in your meditation space or on your nightstand, |
| 1:55.0 | or somewhere where you're likely to see them often |
| 1:58.0 | to remind you of what intention you set for this year. |
| 2:05.0 | So go ahead and get nice and settled in your meditation space, |
| 2:11.0 | make your body comfortable, and strain your spine. I encourage you to sit up during |
| 2:18.8 | this meditation, and again, I encourage you to go outside and do this meditation, just as I hoped that you would do last night. |
| 2:29.0 | And I heard from several of you telling me that we're outside and had an amazing meditation as you connected |
| 2:36.7 | with nature all around you. |
| 2:40.4 | So as you settle in, let's go ahead and relax the different areas of your body just as we always do every single day together |
| 2:50.8 | Relax your face and jaw. |
| 2:57.0 | Close your eyes gently and keep them slightly elevated. |
| 3:03.0 | Softing your throat, |
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