Regulate Your Emotions, Day 5 Managing Procrastination
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Discover a process that helps you to regulate your response to stress.
This week you're guided to manage one of the most difficult challenges in life -- procrastination. You may be surprised to learn that procrastination isn't necessarily about time management. Be guided as you gain insight each day to help you manage procrastination, and get ready to meditate with more peace, energy, and clarity.
This is day 5 of a 7-day MANAGING PROCRASTINATION meditation series, episodes 2720-2726.
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You're Invited To Take Part In an Emotional Regulation Quest
Notice your emotional response to stressors. Begin to identify and name the emotions you experience the most when you're under stress. This is a great week to keep a Journal of your emotions.
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This week, you are invited to take part in an emotional healing journey. You'll be guided through 7-steps to heal your emotions. It's all too common to conceal your reactions to stressors in life and to neglect your emotions. This week, you'll be guided to honor your emotional state.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 2721 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Mechley and I'm honored to guide you in today's meditation. |
| 0:13.0 | We continue with the theme of Managing Procrastination. |
| 0:17.0 | In each episode, you are exploring some insight that you can apply to your life right away |
| 0:25.0 | to help you create lifestyle habits to manage procrastination. |
| 0:31.0 | Also, you're guided, as always, using a meditation technique that you can do on or off your meditation cushion. |
| 0:40.0 | Know that one of the biggest keys to meditating successfully and receiving the beautiful benefits of meditation |
| 0:49.0 | is to meditate consistently. |
| 0:51.0 | So I invite you to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode. |
| 0:55.0 | And I'm always honored when you share a reading and review of the podcast to let me know how your meditation ritual is coming along |
| 1:03.0 | and to request any themes you might like to explore here on the podcast. |
| 1:10.0 | I will share with you now your insight and then you'll be guided in your meditation. |
| 1:15.0 | I've been sharing with you an article this week from the Harvard Business Review. |
| 1:20.0 | And this is an article by Alice Boyz and it's titled How to Stop Procrastinating. |
| 1:27.0 | And one of the suggestions she offers is an important one that I thought you could relate to very well |
| 1:36.0 | because we do this often as we meditate together. |
| 1:39.0 | And that is to disentangle your feelings, accurately identify your emotions. |
| 1:47.0 | This is something psychological researchers term emotional granularity and it will help you manage your emotions. |
| 1:56.0 | This is what we do every time we meditate together, you tune into your emotions. |
| 2:03.0 | When it comes to procrastination, it's also useful to analyze how much each emotion is affecting your attitude toward a task. |
| 2:14.0 | For example, you might find that writing a presentation for your boss provokes anxiety at a level of eight on a scale of one to ten. |
| 2:25.0 | Resentment at a level of six and boredom at a level of four. |
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