Warrior's Breath: The Samurai Calm, Day 3: "The Book of 5 Rings" meditation series
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
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🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:
Get ready for an exciting journey with a new meditation technique every day, 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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| 0:00.0 | In today's meditation, you're going to be guided using a breathing technique to help you bring clarity to your life and this is all part of a seven |
| 0:18.4 | part meditation series this is part three of this meditation series, on productivity and clarity with how |
| 0:28.9 | you live your life. |
| 0:30.8 | And we are doing something unique. |
| 0:33.0 | This week we are following a book that I happen to be reading. |
| 0:36.0 | It's a book I've read many times and you may have read it before. |
| 0:40.0 | It's called The Book of Five Rings by Miamoto Musashi who was a famous samurai, the most famous samurai in Japan and he lived in the 1600s and he was an undefeated samurai who had no formal training and he |
| 0:59.0 | developed a certain style of living called the way and what he did is he incorporated the |
| 1:08.4 | essence of sword-viding with how he lives his life, and his books and teachings have been |
| 1:17.6 | studied by many business schools because he offers a lot of strategy in his book. |
| 1:24.0 | Well, this meditation series is all about using these strategies to become the best part of who you are. |
| 1:35.0 | And as you do so, you're going to become aware of your weaknesses and your strengths so you're going to know where to fill in the |
| 1:47.3 | gaps and you're going to know how to do that with the meditation techniques that I share you to get ready to meditate. And as you meditate today what I share with you, you're going to realize. |
| 1:58.0 | And as you meditate today, what I share with you, you're going to realize the way that I share |
| 2:07.3 | meditation with you, because as you sit down and get ready to meditate, we always start the meditation off the same way, |
| 2:16.8 | regardless of whatever you're focusing on, regardless of whatever you're doing, |
| 2:21.6 | we start off in the same way. This is an important part of your ritual. |
| 2:26.7 | You tap into yourself and you start to pull away from the distractions of your day. |
| 2:35.0 | And you start to notice your rhythm |
| 2:40.0 | and you do that with your breath. You notice your breath and your body posture and how you feel in your body. |
| 2:50.0 | These are all signs of how you're doing, what your rhythm happens to be at the moment. |
| 2:57.6 | And so every Tuesday, today is the Tuesday as I record this, I share a breathing technique. |
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