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Daily Meditation Podcast

Warrior's Breath: The Samurai Calm, Day 3: "The Book of 5 Rings" meditation series

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this meditation, you will learn a powerful breathing technique inspired by the teachings of legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi. This practice, known as "Warrior's Breath," helps you cultivate inner calm and focus, essential for any warrior. Through deep, controlled breaths, you will center your mind, harness your energy, and prepare yourself to face any challenge with clarity and determination. Embrace this ancient technique to strengthen your resilience and achieve a state of unwavering calm.

Welcome to our 7-day meditation series inspired by "The Book of Five Rings" by the legendary samurai, Miyamoto Musashi. In this series, we will delve into the profound teachings of the five elements—Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void—each representing a unique aspect of strategy and life. Through daily meditations and reflections, you will learn to harness these elements to cultivate inner strength, adaptability, passion, freedom, and infinite potential. Join us on this transformative journey to gain clarity, balance, and mastery in both your personal and professional life.

This is episode 3 of this week's 7-day meditation series, "The Circle of 5 Rings: A Strategy to Win at Life " 379-385.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Win Differently Quest

Practice going with the flow by engaging in a new activity or solving a problem in a different way than usual. Notice how being flexible and adaptable impacts your experience. Journal about a situation where adapting like water helped you navigate more effectively.

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.

FREE TOOLS:

For free meditation tools to help you meditate please head over to my website at www.SipandOm.com, and there you'll find free resources to help you on your Meditation Journey.

Enjoy access to more than 3,000 guided meditations without ads on the Sip and Om app. Try it for 7 days of free access to the full app!

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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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Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.
 
I'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU
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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

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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