The Power of Positive Thoughts
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
"I find that I can get in my head about things that happen over the workday, and your words help me to remove those thoughts and practice more positive self-talk." ~ Your fellow meditator Alison from Ontario, Canada
Are you finding it hard to get things done these days? If so, you're not alone. Living during a pandemic is an extenuating situation that is incredibly taxing. It takes a lot of mental stamina. You may find your freshly created new year's goals slipping away. In this week's series, you'll discover ways to manage procrastination and to re-commit to your goals to live your best year yet. This is day 7 of a 7-day Procrastination meditation series, episodes 2201-2206. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: You're invited to take part in a Commitment Quest. You're encouraged to ask yourself a question every day as you sit down to meditate. Each day's question will be released on each episode this week, so be sure to listen in for each question! The questions are designed to help you feel motivated to commit to whatever you've been procrastinating. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Day 1: Procrastination Awareness Visualization Day 2: Affirmation "Now is my time." Day 3: Inhale + visualize success, Exhale fear Day 4: Hakini Mudra technique Day 5: Fourth Chakra Focus Day 6: Layer the week's techniques together Day 7: Weekly Reflection Meditation 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 on https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om. We'd love to hear about your meditation ritual!SUBSCRIBE, LEAVE A REVIEW + TAKE OUR SURVEY
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,2007 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to the final episode of our series on procrastination. We've been exploring how to pursue the things |
| 0:20.1 | that matter most to you or to pause those goals that maybe aren't right for you at |
| 0:28.4 | this time. Throughout this week's series you've discovered in each episode every single day a different |
| 0:38.0 | meditation technique to help you stop procrastinating. |
| 0:43.0 | Along with this series, you've had as always a weekly challenge. |
| 0:49.0 | And this is where you go on a quest for a week related to the theme to deepen your experience of the goal for the week. |
| 1:02.0 | Your goal, the theme has been to consider the goals you have and to see how they really apply to your life. |
| 1:14.0 | You've had a question each day that I share with you on the podcast |
| 1:20.0 | and you have been challenged as part of your quest to ask yourself this question and to reflect on it to see how it relates to your goals. |
| 1:32.0 | So your final question for this week's challenge is to first bring to mind a goal you've been focusing on this week or if you're just |
| 1:46.8 | joining us that's just perfect. Think about maybe a goal you set for yourself this year. |
| 1:54.4 | Maybe you don't do goals. |
| 1:56.2 | Maybe you have a word for the year. |
| 2:00.0 | Bring to mind what you're focusing on that you want to accomplish in your life right now, |
| 2:07.0 | what's important to you. |
| 2:09.0 | And now ask yourself the question, what would your life look like a year from now if you completed your goal. I'll be guiding you through this reflection |
| 2:31.1 | question in today's meditation. |
| 2:35.2 | So that is your final reflection question. |
| 2:39.5 | You can always go a little more deeply into a particular series on today's sponsor of the |
| 2:47.0 | podcast the Sippend Ome Meditation app you receive a journal and a slowdown guide that goes right along with the week's theme. |
| 2:58.5 | We launch into a brand new series tomorrow. |
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