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Daily Meditation Podcast

Reclaiming Your Focus, Day 4: "Processing Negative News" meditation series

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Before engaging with social media or news, take a moment to ground yourself through deep breathing. Set the intention to be mindful of your media consumption and its impact on your emotions.
 
Welcome to our 7-day meditation series, "Processing Negative News: A Journey to Inner Focus." In this series, we will explore techniques to help you avoid distractions, particularly those from social media and negative news, which can disrupt your peace and lead to negative feelings. By practicing mindfulness and inner focus, you can reclaim your mental space and navigate the day with clarity and positivity.
 
This is episode 4 of this week's 7-day meditation series, "Processing Negative News" 3121-3127.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Negative News Filter Quest:

When you encounter negative news, ask yourself, "How can I use this information?" "How does it make me feel?" "How can I be of service?"

A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:

Get ready for an exciting journey with a new meditation technique every day, perfectly tailored to the week's theme! Infuse these powerful practices into the most stressful moments of your day to master difficult emotions. These dynamic techniques will help you tame the "monkey mind," keeping your thoughts from interrupting your meditation and bringing peace and focus to your life.

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For free meditation tools to help you meditate please head over to my website at www.SipandOm.com, and there you'll find free resources to help you on your Meditation Journey.

Enjoy access to more than 3,000 guided meditations without ads on the Sip and Om app. Try it for 7 days of free access to the full app!

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***All meditations are Mary Meckley's original copyrighted content unless otherwise stated, and may not be shared without her written permission.
 
RESOURCES
Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.
 
I'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU
I'd love your feedback! Please let me know how you're enjoying the meditations by leaving me a review on iTunes.
 
**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 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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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 3,124 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley. I welcome you to day four of this week's series. You have been guided with

0:19.0

insight and meditation techniques regarding our theme and the theme is by request from

0:26.9

Marlene all the way from South Africa a Cape Town Africa, and she requested a theme on processing negative news.

0:38.0

And I know you can relate to this too.

0:41.0

And in today's episode, I'm going to share with you insight as

0:46.0

always. You are going to create a protocol for checking your social media.

0:54.0

And then you're going to be guided in a meditation

0:58.0

with the technique, you'll have the option to do this technique.

1:02.0

You don't have to do this technique but I know for many of you it's one of your favorites.

1:07.4

It is a mudra. Every day for midweek and series, I like to do something fun and a little different.

1:16.7

So I share with you a way you position your hands that is considered to stimulate your nervous system and it's very similar to

1:29.2

acupressure and I am going to share with you now that technique. It is the Suria Madra. You can do it.

1:40.0

It's so simple to do. If you want to see a photo of me doing it, you can head over to my SIP and

1:49.0

OOM meditation app, which you can always try free for a week and you get access to over 3,000

1:57.2

guided meditations there and there is a slowdown guide with all the

2:01.9

techniques on it including an herbal tea, a recommended book, and a yoga pose, and you'll see the Suria mudra.

2:11.0

It helps to support focus, concentration, and mental clarity and it can also reduce stress and anxiety.

2:22.0

So this is the perfect. stress and anxiety.

2:22.8

So this is the perfect weapon for you

2:27.2

as you do your social media protocol

2:30.6

that I'm going to share with you. So to do this mudra and you can practice it for 15 minutes a day.

2:42.0

You fold down your ring finger and then you simply press your thumb over it. So you don't

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