Staying Focused

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Behappy, Mental Health, Meditation, Anxiety, Sleep, Mindfulness, Alternative Health, Guidedmeditation, Health & Fitness, Focus

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This is part 4 of a 7-part Mental Clarity Meditation Series, episodes 1893-1899. For full guided meditations, give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2 weeks free. Receive access to 1,800+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from over 200 series to fit your mood with a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each theme. Brand new themes are introduced each week with brand new meditations offered daily. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers. All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content unless otherwise specified. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected]. Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,897 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:09.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to our series all about mental clarity.
0:20.3	Throughout this week's series you've discovered meditation tips and techniques to help you gain more focus and clarity. You've also discovered how being authentic is essential. In fact, it's
0:41.1	the key to realizing mental clarity when you are authentically connected to your true inner values. You will discover that you gain clarity. It's a lot of work trying to mask how you feel and who you are.
1:29.1	It's much easier to tap into your true essence and to live by it. This will provide clarity and one of the biggest obstacles to clarity is distractions. often are caused by an underlying sense of anxiety.
1:42.0	So whatever you can do to structure the way you start your day and the way you end your day and can have a huge impact on how much clarity you experience throughout the day.
2:01.6	It is the daily actions you take that create a boundary
2:09.2	around what you allow into your life and when you're not able to completely block something
2:21.6	out of your life, at least you are able to manage the stress or the fear
2:31.2	or the anger or whatever you might be experiencing.
2:36.3	Meditation is one of the best ways
2:39.5	to help you start and end your day.
2:44.0	As you sit down to meditate,
2:47.0	you could bring to mind
2:50.0	what you are planning for and when you think about things that might be difficult.
2:58.4	And when you think about things that might be difficult. Maybe you have a very challenging
3:06.1	presentation you have to do at work or you have a someone or maybe you're going to be
3:16.2	to have with someone or maybe you're going to be
3:21.4	experiencing some pain because of some physical ailment you might be experiencing.
3:28.0	Whatever it might be, if you start your day and think about how you could better manage potentially stressful situations,
3:40.9	then when you experience them you'll have an easier time staying focused.
3:50.1	When you do this you join the ranks of many meditators who do this on a regular basis, including the Dalai Lama who is reported to anticipate stresses he will experience
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