Self-Improvement to Improve Your Reaction to Stress

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Take part in a powerful self-awareness exercise as you review your week. Celebrate your big wins, and notice ways to improve how you respond to stress. You might not consider your negative thoughts as thieves. In fact, negative thoughts may steal away some of the best moments of your life. Consider the time and attention negative thoughts take away from each day of your life. In this week's series, you'll explore how to release these thieves. This week, you'll be exploring non-stealing, from Pantanjali's Yoga Sutras. This is part of a collection of meditation series focused on honoring the way you live your life. You'll focus on truthfulness to help cultivate a calmer, kinder approach to the problems in the world today. This is part 7 of a 7-part Release Negative Thoughts with the 3rd Yama Asteya meditation series episodes 2110-2116. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: You're invited to take part in a Confidence Quest where every day this week you become aware of how your emotional states impact your confidence. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I am right here. Right now." Breathing - Inhale: Notice negative thoughts. Exhale: Release them. Mudra - Prithvi Mudra Chakra - 7th - at crown of head - unity Herb - Yerba Mate - Mental focus + energy Yoga Asana - Muktasana - Freedom Pose

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 2,116 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:07.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to the final episode of a series we've been exploring all week long and that is a
0:19.2	series from the classic book written by the ancient Indian Yogi,
0:27.0	Pantanguli, who wrote the yoga sutras.
0:31.0	And within the yoga Sutras, he shares what are called the Yamas. And the
0:38.6	Yamas are right living. Yoga means union. And when you feel unified and united and connected, then you begin to notice that everything in your life seems to fall into place,
0:58.4	regardless of what's going on in the world around you.
1:02.1	So what a great way for us to feel as we go through these
1:07.6	uncertain times. If we follow some of the Yamas, we may begin to notice that the things happening in the world around us aren't such big players in our lives anymore because we are feeling that state of
1:29.2	yoga or union.
1:32.3	So the third yama has to do with non-stealing and we've been
1:38.6	focusing on this yama all week long in regard to not allowing your negative thoughts to steal away from the
1:48.7	most precious moments of your life. One of the most negative thoughts you could have, which is in fact a very common
1:59.9	negative thought, is that you are not enough.
2:05.8	When you think you're not enough,
2:09.5	you steal from the world's experience of you because you don't live out fully who you
2:19.2	are and so the world has no chance to get to know your gifts. And this is a great loss that your
2:23.2	is a great loss that your negative thoughts
2:29.2	that your negative thoughts steal away from the world.
2:37.0	So think about your most common repetitive thought.
2:48.5	And think about if it has to do with your confidence. Maybe you feel stuck. Is it because you feel like, unless things are a particular way you're not really able to be who you are?
3:00.0	When really you can always be who you are, regardless of what's happening with others and the world around you.
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