Self-Compassion, Day 7: "The Fire Within: Meditations on Anger, Power, and Purpose"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
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🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Self-criticism is often at the root of anxiety, depression, and stress. The final step in this week's series is about moving from self-compassion to a kinder, more accepting attitude toward yourself. The simple act of being grateful is a powerful tool for neuroplasticity.
WELCOME TO THIS WEEK'S SERIES:
THE FIRE WITHIN: MEDITATIONS ON ANGER, POWER, AND PURPOSE
Welcome to "The Fire Within: Meditations on Anger, Power, and Purpose"
In a world that often tells us to "just let go," "The Fire Within" challenges the conventional wisdom about anger. This isn't a series about suppressing or escaping your feelings. Instead, it is a guided journey to sit with your anger, to understand it, and to transform its intense energy from a destructive force into a potent catalyst for growth. Over seven episodes, you will learn to listen to what your anger is truly telling you, to reclaim your power from reactivity, and to forge a path forward with courage and clarity. This is a series for those ready to confront the uncomfortable truth of their emotions and emerge with an unshakable inner strength.
This is day 7 of a 7-day meditation series, "The Fire Within: Meditations on Anger, Power, and Purpose," episodes 3353-3359.
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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected].Let go of repetitive negative thoughts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Episode 3,359 of your daily meditation podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I'm delighted to welcome you to Day 7. |
| 0:16.0 | This has been a week-long journey where you've been exploring a very important theme. |
| 0:25.9 | This is you managing anger, power and purpose as you explore your fire within. |
| 0:35.7 | And all week long you've been focusing on insight learning about your brain's capacity |
| 0:45.5 | to manage difficulty motions such as anger regret remorse sadness. All of this your brain handles beautifully when you know how to |
| 1:02.8 | support yourself. So you've explored a lot of science about your brain and you also explored an affirmation, a visualization, a breathing technique, a mudra, a chakra |
| 1:17.0 | focus. |
| 1:18.5 | And today, I like to say that day seven of a series is one of the most important days because this is when you put together the different |
| 1:31.3 | meditation techniques you've explored and you reflect on how you applied the theme to your |
| 1:41.3 | life this week. What worked? What what didn't what would you do differently |
| 1:46.3 | there's never any shame or blame or regrets in fact your guided meditation |
| 1:54.7 | today is about self-compassion one thing that people tell me about when I hear from you and fellow meditators, |
| 2:08.3 | people will often say that they're so surprised that when they start meditating consistently, |
| 2:17.2 | consistency is key as I always say to you. Well, science reveals |
| 2:23.3 | this, that consistency is the key to realizing the benefits of meditation, especially changing |
| 2:31.3 | the neural pathways of your brain with this neuroplasticity that's available to you. |
| 2:38.8 | People tell me that they're surprised by how confident they feel. |
| 2:45.7 | They expect to feel more at peace or more clarity, |
| 2:50.5 | but they're very surprised that they begin to |
| 2:53.6 | believe in themselves. When you think about this, it's not so surprising because when you're |
| 3:01.6 | meditating, you're tuning into how you're feeling, where you feel certain emotions in your body, you're applying |
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