Peace Affirmation, Day 2 Stress Innoculation Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Immerse yourself in peace during your most stressful times with an affirmation to calm your thoughts.
This week you're guided in a meditation series to innoculate yourself against some of the top stressors you experience each day. You'll discover how to transform stress into growth opportunities and harness peace in the face of adversity.
This is part 2 of a 7-part Series Stress Innoculation, Episodes 2952-2958.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
Identify your top stressors and select meditation techniques to manage them.
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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Episode 2953 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Mechley and I |
| 0:10.7 | welcome you to day two of the series. We're exploring this week. This week you |
| 0:18.2 | are guiding yourself using different meditation techniques to help |
| 0:24.8 | inoculate you against stress and I'll share insight with you today as I |
| 0:31.3 | always do and then you'll be guided in a meditation and your technique for |
| 0:37.4 | today is an affirmation which is a positive statement that helps you to focus |
| 0:46.9 | your thoughts and your challenge this week is to apply these techniques every |
| 0:54.0 | day to stressful situations before they even happen. I'll share with you how |
| 1:01.1 | this works. Canadian psychologist Donald Mike and bomb developed SIT stress |
| 1:09.4 | inoculation training and he developed it in the early 1970s as a training |
| 1:17.1 | program for stress and anxiety reduction. He was a big contributor to the |
| 1:25.1 | development of what is now so popular cognitive behavioral therapy. This is |
| 1:31.3 | where you analyze your thoughts and your feelings and behaviors to work out |
| 1:38.0 | if they are unrealistic or unhelpful and to determine the effect they have on |
| 1:45.5 | each other and on you. So this is a popular type of therapy Donald Mike and bomb |
| 1:53.1 | was a contributor to. Well he believed that it was absolutely possible to |
| 2:01.4 | inoculate people against stressful situations. Thus preventing some of the |
| 2:09.9 | adverse effects of stress and he identified three phases of SIT stress |
| 2:17.6 | inoculation training. The first is conceptualization. This is what you were |
| 2:23.4 | guided to do in yesterday's episode and that was to consider the kinds of |
| 2:29.2 | stress you might need to be inoculated against. Maybe it's stress involving |
| 2:36.9 | your work or even your driver commute to work. Maybe it's pain your bills. Maybe |
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