Refocus Your Mind
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
This is part 4 of a 7-part Surviving Uncertainty meditation series episodes 2082-2088.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode |
| 0:02.0 | 2087 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to our series |
| 0:11.0 | we're exploring this week. |
| 0:13.6 | We are exploring the theme of surviving uncertainty. |
| 0:20.0 | All week long you have discovered a different meditation technique that can help you manage |
| 0:28.0 | these uncertain times we are experiencing and I'm going to guide you today layering those techniques |
| 0:38.1 | together into a meditation. I like to layer meditation techniques when I meditate. It is the best |
| 0:48.8 | way to transition from whatever you were doing, |
| 0:53.0 | before you sat down to meditate, |
| 0:56.0 | to a place of stillness and peace. |
| 1:00.0 | It's pretty hard to just sit down and instantly be focused and ready to meditate. |
| 1:10.0 | There's a process where you let go of all that's happening out there around you and |
| 1:19.8 | start to focus more inward. Some days this happens pretty quickly. You're ready and you're able to focus |
| 1:28.5 | and feel really calm right away. Other days it can take a little bit longer. Those are the days when your |
| 1:36.1 | mind seems to wander. One of the best ways to help your wandering mind or your distracted mind is to begin to notice your breath |
| 1:49.5 | and do a breathing technique or simply bring your thoughts to the rhythm and flow of your breath. |
| 1:57.4 | So as you get ready to meditate I want to share a little insight from an article we've been following |
| 2:08.6 | along with and this is an article from Psychology Today, Five Strategies for Managing Uncertainty during COVID-19 by Dr. Austin Perlmeter. |
| 2:29.3 | We explored earlier in the week how to reframe our stress, our current situation and how to accept it. You also explored how to rewire your thinking and |
| 2:39.7 | meditation is one of the best ways to actually rewire your brain. |
| 2:45.0 | Today, your fourth strategy is refocus. |
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