Warm Heart, Cool Mind: Meditations on Calmness, Day 6 Living a Balanced Life

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Visualize and embody acts of kindness, creating a ripple effect that extends beyond the meditation.

Welcome to the "Living a Balanced Life" Meditation Series, a transformative journey dedicated to cultivating balance and well-being in every aspect of your life. In this series, we'll explore the art of harmonizing mind, body, and spirit to foster a sense of equilibrium and fulfillment.

Life often pulls us in different directions, and finding balance can be a challenge. Through these guided meditations, we aim to create a sanctuary where you can center yourself, tap into your inner wisdom, and discover the beauty of living in alignment with your truest self.

Each session will focus on specific aspects of life, offering mindfulness techniques, visualizations, and affirmations to promote balance. Whether you're seeking tranquility amid chaos, balance in your relationships, or harmony in your daily routine, this series is designed to be your companion on the journey to a more balanced and centered life.

Join us as we embark on this exploration of "Harmony Within," and may you find serenity, balance, and a renewed sense of purpose along the way.

This is part 6 of a 7-part meditation series titled Living the Balanced Life, 1942-1948.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:

CHOP WOOD CARRY WATER QUEST

Focus on basic, everyday tasks—symbolized by chopping wood and carrying water—as a means to ground yourself so that external temptations that might compromise your integrity don't tempt you.

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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RESOURCES

Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.

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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 kind of 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	This is the next to the last
0:05.0	well welcome to your daily guided meditation.
0:10.0	How are you doing?
0:12.0	This is the next to the last episode of our series on the virtues.
0:19.0	Throughout this week you have explored seven virtues as well as seven deadly sins.
0:28.5	You've explored how to weave these virtues into your life and how to cultivate these virtues in your meditation
0:36.6	ritual.
0:38.4	You've discovered a different technique in each episode to help you calm your mind and body.
0:47.0	In today's episode, you will layer together the different meditation techniques you've explored all week long in this series.
0:59.0	You will also discover the virtue of kindness and the opposing quality of wrath. You will also discover a fun and fearless challenge that is different from the daily challenge you've had this week, which has been to gift yourself with a virtue. I hope that you have been able to give yourself some kind of reward associated with the virtue.
1:38.8	For example, we explored patients in yesterday's series so you could have gifted yourself with
1:47.2	patience cutting yourself a little slack in some area of your life. So for the virtue of kindness today, think
1:58.6	about how you could be kind to yourself. I just came in from watching the sunset and this was a way I
2:08.0	was kind to myself. As you know I have been sick this week you can still hear it in my voice and I
2:17.7	really needed to feel uplifted and nourished because I've been inside my home all week. So I went
2:28.1	outside and just took in the sunset.
2:33.5	And as you've gone throughout this week's
2:36.2	series of virtues, I want to encourage you
2:42.4	not to feel judgmental towards yourself or irritated if you mess up
2:50.0	or you notice that you really need to work on a particular virtue and you start to feel guilty.
2:57.3	This is an ongoing journey living more virtuously shouldn't feel forced to where you feel
3:10.1	you have to reprimand yourself if you mess up. It should feel like you are unfolding to a natural
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