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Daily Meditation Podcast

The Balance of Giving and Receiving, Day 4: "The Dance of Yin and Yang" meditation series

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The Balance of Giving and Receiving: Explore your relationships and consider how you balance giving and receiving. Are you able to both give and receive love and support?

YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY DURING THIS WEEK'S SERIES

This is episode 4 of a meditation series titled, "The Dance of Yin and Yang," episodes 3213-3219.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Light and Shadow Quest

To observe and appreciate the duality of light and shadow in nature. Spend 10-15 minutes outdoors, paying attention to the interplay of light and shadow. Notice how the position of the sun affects the shadows cast by trees, buildings, and other objects.

THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES:  

Day 1:  Visualization to Balance Your Emotions

Day 2:  Affirmation, "I am both light and shadow."

Day 3:  Hong Sa Breathing Technique

Day 4:  Apan Vaya Mudra Technique

Day 5:  First Chakra Technique

Day 6:  Layer Meditation Techniques

Day 7:  Reflection + Introspection  

SHARE YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEDITATORS   Let's connect and inspire each other! Please share a little about how meditation has helped you by reaching out to me at Mary@SipandOm.com or better yet -- direct message me at https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om. We'd love to hear about your meditation ritual! 

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A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:

Get ready for an exciting journey with a new meditation technique daily, perfectly tailored to the week's theme! Infuse these powerful practices into the most stressful moments of your day to master difficult emotions. These dynamic techniques will help you tame the "monkey mind," keeping your thoughts from interrupting your meditation and bringing peace and focus to your life.

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***All meditations are Mary Meckley's original copyrighted content unless otherwise stated, and may not be shared without her written permission.
 
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**All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information, or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy, or clarity you may experience as you meditate.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 3,216 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

0:07.3

This is Mary Meckley, and I'm so honored to be here with you as you get ready to give yourself permission to slow down.

0:19.0

And as you do so, you connect to the best part of who you are in today's episode

0:26.1

we continue along with this series where you are exploring the duality of important challenges

0:34.6

in your life important relationships how you feel about yourself,

0:41.0

you are exploring the dance between yin and yong, or you can call it yang. And in today's

0:49.6

episode, your featured meditation technique is a mudra. And a mudra is a way you position your hands

1:00.5

that is considered to activate a corresponding region of your brain. So your hands and fingers

1:09.3

have a lot of nerve endings. And when you position them in certain

1:14.9

ways, it's considered to stimulate your nervous system. So the mudra for today, I'll go ahead and

1:24.2

guide you through it right now. You can always see a photo of the mudra that I share on the slowdown guide.

1:33.7

Now this is a guide that I share on the Siphano Meditation app for every week's meditation series.

1:41.0

I show a photo of the mudra and instructions on how to do it and you can try the app for a week free

1:48.0

access to over 3,000 guided meditations at the Sip and Om meditation app.

1:55.0

So here you are, I'm going to guide you through this mudra and if you're new to mudras, this could be a fun way for you to explore a technique that you can do whether you're seated meditating or whether you're out and about in the midst of your busy day.

2:14.3

This selected featured mudra for this week's series is the upon via mudra. And it's considered to

2:24.5

calm your heart and to help your mind and body relax. So that's important as you're exploring

2:33.2

duality with your emotions this week. So to do this

2:38.1

mudra, you may place your hands on your lap or your knees with your palms upward, or if you're

2:44.9

walking, you can do the mudra. And you will curl your index finger and touch the very base of your thumb and then touch your thumb

2:56.2

tip to the tips of your middle and ring fingers and that's it your little finger is extended

3:04.6

so again curl down your index finger doing this with both hands and touch

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