The Art of Self Care, Day 6 The Art of Effort Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Cultivate a deep sense of self-care by encouraging you to prioritize your well-being, embrace self-compassion, and commit to nurturing yourself with love and kindness. Through gentle guidance, it helps you explore the importance of dedicating time and effort to caring for your mind, body, and spirit.
Welcome to the "The Art of Effort" meditation series. In this seven-day journey, we will explore the power of focusing on our actions, intentions, and efforts, rather than becoming fixated on the outcomes that are often beyond our control. Through these daily meditations, we will cultivate a mindset of detachment from outcomes, leading to greater peace of mind, resilience, and effectiveness in our endeavors.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: TAKE ACTION QUEST
Keep a journal throughout this week, recording the actions you take each day toward your goals.
A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:
You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 3,055 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I |
| 0:08.8 | welcome you to day six of this week's series. |
| 0:14.0 | You've been exploring the art of effort |
| 0:17.0 | as our theme for this week, |
| 0:18.9 | and in each episode, you've discovered |
| 0:21.5 | a meditation technique that allows you to stay focused on what |
| 0:28.5 | matters most to you and you're focusing on that next action step that's going to lead you forward rather |
| 0:37.0 | than worrying about the outcome. |
| 0:40.2 | This can freeze you up when you think about all that you need to do to get something done. |
| 0:47.2 | It can seem so overwhelming and we often don't know what the outcome will be. |
| 0:54.0 | You may pivot into a new direction, |
| 0:56.8 | but you won't know this until you take action. |
| 1:01.8 | So this has been a week all about taking action. So this has been a week all about taking action, putting forth your best |
| 1:06.3 | effort and in day six of a series the very tale in tomorrow will be the final episode. |
| 1:14.2 | I share with you a meditation |
| 1:16.7 | where you layer together the different meditation |
| 1:20.1 | techniques, and this is what I like to call a flow. So this will be your art of effort |
| 1:27.7 | flow and just as when you do yoga I know many of you do yoga as I do, you move from one Asana into another |
| 1:41.4 | and you build your practice as you're going through this |
| 1:45.3 | yoga flow, well that's what it's like when you apply different meditation |
| 1:50.1 | techniques. You are working with your mind and your emotions rather than with your body, |
| 1:58.0 | although you do receive a physiological reaction in your body, |
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