Self-Acceptance, Day 4 The Art of Stillness
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
"I've learned that everything happens for a reason," the yogi Krishnan told him." "Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson ... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is."
~ Robin Sharma, author of "The Monk Who Sold His Motorcycle"
This week you're guided on a journey to feel comfortable with stillness. It can take a little practice to begin to feel at home with stillness. We launch into the series with an interview with one of your fellow meditators, Vidhu, from India. Vidhu shares how she overcame hopelessness with inner stillness. She shares her favorite meditation techniques and tips and challenges you to ask yourself 2 questions when you begin to feel hopeless or overwhelmed: 1) "Can I do everything? The answer is no." 2) "Can I do something? The answer is yes."
You can say hello to Vidhu @booksandmore20 on Instagram. She'd love to answer any questions about her meditation ritual and lifestyle habits.
This is day 4 of a 7-day meditation series, The Art of Stillness, episodes 2390-2396.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,393 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you today for our series. |
| 0:14.1 | We're exploring this week. |
| 0:15.9 | Today, you are going to be guided as you sit in stillness and listen to your inner wisdom. |
| 0:26.4 | This is going to be a meditation that allows you to be guided by your inner truth. |
| 0:35.0 | And sometimes that can be hard to discern with all the uncertainty that's going on in the world. |
| 0:43.3 | Sometimes it's difficult to know what to believe in today's episode. |
| 0:51.8 | We continue with our theme of the art of stillness and we're following along with meditation techniques |
| 1:02.7 | that are brought to you by your fellow meditator Vidhu, whom you heard in an interview |
| 1:09.8 | as she shared her journey from hopelessness to inner stillness, which eventually reignited her hope. |
| 1:21.5 | And I'm sharing with you one of her favorite meditation techniques. |
| 1:25.8 | It is a mudra. I know for many of you you really enjoy the mudra hand techniques. |
| 1:32.6 | You can do them whether you're seated meditating or going about your day. |
| 1:37.3 | The hakeny mudra stimulates your mind in a way to help you focus on your inner wisdom. |
| 1:47.6 | This is a simple mudra to do. You simply touch your fingers together |
| 1:54.2 | and your thumbs together creating space between your palms as if you are holding a ball between |
| 2:01.0 | your palms. And this is a mudra you might naturally notice yourself doing and notice others doing |
| 2:08.7 | when they are pondering or contemplating something. That is because this is the mudra that helps you |
| 2:16.6 | to align with your truth. So you can find as always the full guided meditations on the Sip and |
| 2:26.5 | Ome meditation app as well as a journal and a guide that goes right along with this week's |
| 2:33.6 | series. So if you'd like to explore stillness a little more deeply that's the place for you. |
| 2:40.2 | You can try it for an entire week free so you could get this entire week's series free. |
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