Self-Care for Heartache + Loss Day 1
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
"Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself in your way of thinking."
~ Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Heartache and loss and be life's greatest teachers. Your meditation ritual can provide you with inner grace in the midst of your pain. Throughout this week's series, you'll explore the wisdom of two great meditators who provide deep insight on healing and loss. Paramhansa Yogananda from his book, "How to Love and Be Loved," and Marcus Aurelius from his book, "Meditations," will be your companions this week as you give yourself permission to heal with inner stillness.
This is day 1 of a 7-day meditation series, Self-Care for Heartache and Loss, episodes 2362-2368.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE
Now Is My Time Challenge
This week, begin to celebrate your life. Focus on 5 things you're grateful for each day. Before you go to bed at night, focus on these 5 gratitudes.
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Day 1: Visualization Day 2: Affirmation Day 3: Breathing Technique Day 4: Mudra Technique Day 5: Chakra Technique Day 6: Layer Meditation Techniques Day 7: Reflection + Introspection THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR MINDFUL AND MODERN! Look no further if you're searching for a meditation cushion that is comfortable, beautiful, and sustainably produced. Mindful and Modern is a company that is focused solely on meditation. They offer exceptionally tailored meditation products that are sustainably sourced. Their meditation cushions are my favorites -- produced with 100% cotton batting or natural buckwheat hulls. Receive a generous discount of 15% off your total purchase when you enter the discount code MEDITATEDAILY at MindfulandModern.com. The discount code never expires and can be used once per customer. SHARE YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEDITATORS Let's connect and inspire each other! Please share a little about how meditation has helped you by reaching out to me at Mary@SipandOm.com or better yet -- direct message me on https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om. We'd love to hear about your meditation ritual!WAYS TO SUPPORT THE DAILY MEDITATION PODCAST
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,362 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | Welcome back. |
| 0:08.9 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:10.9 | I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down. |
| 0:17.8 | In today's episode, we launch into a brand new series. |
| 0:23.5 | Another week, it's another series, we'll be exploring a theme and depth focusing |
| 0:29.6 | on meditation techniques every day as you explore the theme. |
| 0:35.0 | We always start each series with a visualization. |
| 0:38.2 | The rest of the week is followed by an affirmation, and then a breathing technique, and then |
| 0:45.2 | a mudra, and then a chakra focus. |
| 0:48.6 | At the end of the week, we layer together all the meditation techniques into a flow meditation, |
| 0:57.6 | where one technique flows into the other. |
| 1:00.8 | Then we celebrate by ending on day 7 the series with a reflection meditation, which I always |
| 1:10.0 | encourage you to do outside, even as a walking meditation, to celebrate and congratulate |
| 1:16.5 | yourself for going through another series. |
| 1:20.5 | Well, this series theme is by popular request. |
| 1:26.1 | In last week's theme, I mentioned to you that I seem to receive a whole collection of |
| 1:32.9 | email messages and direct messages on my SIP and OM Instagram, having to do with OCD. |
| 1:41.0 | I know going through a pandemic is traumatic for many people, especially if you lost loved |
| 1:49.7 | ones or a job, and there's a lot of uncertainty in the world, so symptoms of OCD are more and |
| 1:57.4 | more present these days. |
| 2:00.3 | In last week's theme, we explored obsessional, compulsive disorder, and how to manage your |
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