Positive Affirmation, Day 2 Caring for Your Mental Health Affirmations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today you're guided in a meditation to improve your mental state so you can experience more peace, clarity, and energy in your life.
This week's series of meditations guide you on a journey to help you manage your worst moods. You're guided to create a recipe to snap out of a bad mood.
This is part 2 of a 7-Part Meditation Series Caring for Your Mental Health, Episodes 2889-2895.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE:
At the end of each day, reflect on the day's top stressors. How did you handle the stress? What would you do differently?
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 1,890 of your daily meditation podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you to day two of our series we're exploring this week. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm going to share with you a little insight about the theme this week, |
| 0:21.0 | which is a very important one in honor of mental health awareness in the month of May as I record this. |
| 0:29.0 | You're exploring different ways to enhance your mental health and ways that you might be able to manage any kind of adverse mental health symptoms. |
| 0:43.0 | You might be experiencing and one main objective of this series this week is for you to know how to help loved ones in your life |
| 0:58.0 | who may be experiencing mental illness and I want to share with you some hope. |
| 1:06.0 | And then after I share the insight with you, you'll be guided using an affirmation. |
| 1:12.0 | An affirmation is a positive statement. You repeat to help reinforce a belief you want to acquire. |
| 1:22.0 | So this is very important to helping you uplift your consciousness and this can help you uplift your thoughts and your thoughts create your actions. |
| 1:36.0 | So I want to share with you some interesting information you may or may not be familiar with. |
| 1:43.0 | And this is coming from CAS. It's American Chemical Society. |
| 1:51.0 | And this is an article by Rumiana Tenshav, who is an information scientist there at CAS, again the American Chemical Society. |
| 2:06.0 | And the article is titled, how your gut microbiome is linked to depression and anxiety. |
| 2:16.0 | A lot of thought out there in the mental health arena has to do with the health of your gut can determine the health of your mental state. |
| 2:31.0 | So gut bacteria have been linked to several mental illnesses and patients with various psychiatric disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and autism have been found to have significant alterations in the composition of their gut microorganisms. |
| 2:57.0 | The interest in gut microbiome as related to human health and specifically to mental health is exponentially increasing in the years after 2000. |
| 3:12.0 | And this is demonstrated by research from CAS. |
| 3:18.0 | Currently, there are over 7,000 publications on gut microbiome as related to mental health. |
| 3:29.0 | They go on to describe how babies acquire their first dose of microbes at birth, development of the human gut microbiome, so it starts at birth. |
| 3:46.0 | Various other factors affect the developing neonato microbiome such as premature birth and mode of feeding. |
| 3:57.0 | The major determinant of gut microbiome composition through adulthood seems to be your diet. |
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