Slow Dow, Day 7 Art of Stillness
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
"Walk slowly and you'll go far."
~ Hector Garcia Puigcerver, author of "Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life"
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 7 of a 7-day meditation series, The Art of Stillness, episodes 2390-2396.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE
Live in the Moment Quest
Every day ask yourself these 2 questions: 1) "Can I do everything? The answer is no." 2) "Can I do something? The answer is yes."
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Episode 2,396 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you to Day 7 of our series this week. |
| 0:15.6 | Our theme all week long we've been exploring is the art of stillness. |
| 0:23.1 | And what a great time to be focusing on stillness because you might be on lockdown, |
| 0:30.6 | because of the pandemic. And you have this opportunity to perhaps spend a little more time |
| 0:39.2 | giving yourself permission to slow down. And that's what this episode is all about. |
| 0:47.0 | It's all about you slowing down. Now we are in the final episode of our series |
| 0:54.4 | and in the final episode of every series. We do what I consider to be the most important technique |
| 1:03.0 | that you do all week long. In each episode you have discovered a different meditation technique. |
| 1:10.8 | Well your final technique for this series is to do a weekly reflection |
| 1:19.3 | where you look back over your week and you examine how you lived your life. |
| 1:25.8 | You reflect on your victories and you also learn from the times this week |
| 1:36.0 | when it was difficult to practice stillness. When maybe you weren't able to manage your emotions |
| 1:45.1 | well. You'll have the opportunity to reflect and notice what you could do to improve |
| 1:53.4 | how you live your life. This is so incredibly important and it's something that |
| 2:01.7 | none other than his holiness the Dalai Lama does every single day. |
| 2:08.0 | Reviewing your day is a powerful way to begin to notice how you are living each day. |
| 2:20.9 | It's important to celebrate your wins each day. We often don't do this. We often get caught up |
| 2:29.1 | in the rush of the day and we don't even really reflect back over the day. |
| 2:34.4 | Well you're going to have the opportunity to reflect over your entire week and I also challenge |
| 2:43.1 | you to do something. I challenge you to give yourself some self-care today. This is recorded |
| 2:51.6 | for a Saturday. You might be listening to it on another day. I like to think of Saturday and |
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