The Identity Shift, Day 2: "Beyond Motivation: The Science of Automatic Discipline" meditation series
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today, we use the Affirmation Meditation to engage in Identity-Based change. When you repeat, "My consistency is my power. I show up for myself," you are not hoping to achieve an outcome; you are casting a vote for who you are.
WELCOME TO THIS WEEK'S SERIES: Beyond Motivation: The Science of Automatic Discipline
When you start meditating, your Pre-Frontal Cortex (PFC)—the center of logic, planning, and willpower—is working hard. This is exhausting.
The goal of this 7-day series is to transfer the meditation practice from the energy-intensive PFC to the Basal Ganglia, the brain structure dedicated to automatic habits and procedural memory. This is the part of the brain that knows how to tie your shoes or drive a car without conscious thought.
The techniques used this week—the physical Mudra cue, the rhythmic Breathing, and the simple Affirmation—are all designed to speak the language of the Basal Ganglia: simple, repeatable, and cued by the environment.
This is day 2 of a 7-day meditation series, "Beyond Motivation: The Science of Automatic Discipline," episodes 3395-3401.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE: The Zero Willpower Quest
The goal is to prove that consistent, tiny actions are more powerful than occasional heroic efforts. you're not seeking a perfect 30-minute meditation; your goal is an unbreakable, 60-second consistency.
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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected].Let go of repetitive negative thoughts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 3,397 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to day two of this week's series. |
| 0:16.4 | This is a follow-up to last week's series. |
| 0:21.6 | You can always go back and listen to that or even relisten to it. |
| 0:26.6 | It's all about becoming fearless and overcoming hesitation and anything that keeps you stuck |
| 0:34.6 | when you think about goals or how you want to live your life. |
| 0:39.4 | Well, this week, you are moving beyond motivation because you are immersed in the science |
| 0:49.9 | of automatic discipline to where you create habits and rituals that become your new discipline. |
| 1:02.2 | It becomes such an integral part of your life that it becomes who you are. |
| 1:08.6 | So you actually shift your identity. I'll be sharing insight with you |
| 1:16.1 | about that. And as always, your guided meditation with the days feature technique. And this is an |
| 1:25.2 | affirmation. It's a powerful technique as you will discover. |
| 1:32.1 | I want to encourage you to subscribe because this week the focus is for you to create consistency |
| 1:40.6 | in your meditation ritual. So I'll be sharing a lot of the foundational concepts of |
| 1:47.3 | meditation with you this week. If you know someone who wants to meditate or who needs a little |
| 1:53.4 | more inspiration in their meditation ritual, this is a great time for you to share the podcast with them. |
| 2:02.2 | And this is also a great time for you to perhaps invite someone as a meditation partner, |
| 2:09.6 | someone that can help keep you accountable. |
| 2:12.5 | Even if you don't meditate together, or maybe you meditate once a month together on Zoom or you meet |
| 2:19.9 | somewhere and you meditate. |
| 2:22.9 | You don't necessarily have to meet with someone to meditate. |
| 2:26.2 | You could simply text them every day, hey, I just meditated, or whenever you do meditate |
| 2:32.2 | or even once a week and say, I'm listening to the series, |
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