Calm Your Heart Meditation, Day 6 Healing Through Compassion Meditations
Release Date: 03/17/2023
#2821 Day 3: Breathing Meditation to Visualize a Fresh Start - "Refresh: A Gentle Reset for a Brand New Year Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Today, you’re guided with a calming breathing technique to create the fresh start you’ve been craving—not through pressure or perfection, but through presence. This guided practice helps you slow your nervous system, clear mental noise, and gently open the inner space where clarity lives. We’ll begin with a simple breath pattern you can return to anytime you feel rushed or overwhelmed, then move into a visualization designed to help you feel what a clean-slate moment is like in your body: lighter, steadier, and more aligned. From there, you’ll be guided to imagine your next...
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#2820 Day 2: Affirmation for Inner Clarity - "Refresh: A Gentle Reset for a Brand New Year Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
In today’s Refresh Your Life meditation, you’re invited to soften the pressure to “get it all together” and return to something far more sustainable: evolving at your own pace. This gentle guided practice helps you release urgency, reset your nervous system, and reconnect with the truth that growth doesn’t need to be rushed to be real. You’ll be guided with a steady affirmation designed to anchor you in self-trust—so you can move forward with clarity, patience, and quiet confidence. Whether you’re starting over, starting fresh, or simply starting again, this is your reminder:...
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#2819 Day 1: Refresh: A Gentle Reset for a Brand New Year
Daily Meditation Podcast
Welcome to this special series: Refresh — a gentle, powerful reset for the start of a brand new year. If you’ve been craving that clean-slate feeling—not just on your calendar, but inside your mind and in the way you live—this is for you. Because a new year isn’t only a date. It’s an invitation. To clear what’s been cluttering your inner space… to come back to what matters… and to choose how you want to feel as you move forward. Over the next seven episodes, we’re going to refresh seven key areas of your life—not with pressure, perfection, or a long list of goals… but...
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#3443 Day 7: Stop Overthinking, Regulate Stress, and Recenter Today - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
After the first few days of the new year, the “fresh start” energy meets real life—and that’s exactly why today’s arc focus is BALANCE. In this soothing Day 6 meditation, you’ll learn a simple, science-supported way to calm your nervous system and create a sustainable rhythm you can actually keep. We’ll practice longer-exhale breathing to support stress regulation, then use a gentle recalibration method—Anchor • Breathe • Choose—so you can return to center in under a minute anytime you feel rushed, reactive, or overwhelmed. You’ll leave feeling steadier, clearer,...
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#3442 Day 5: How to Pick a Word of the Year: Guided Meditation + Ceremony to Begin Again - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Step into day 2 of the new year, the moment when New Year motivation can fade and real life returns. In this guided meditation and ceremony, you’ll choose a powerful Word of the Year and turn it into a practical, heart-centered plan you can actually live. You’ll learn the psychology of fresh starts (why New Year’s creates a real “reset” in the brain), how values-aligned intentions lead to deeper well-being, and why tiny “if–then” plans can make your new theme stick. You’ll be guided through calming slow breathing, a candlelit “Bless the Word” ritual, and a comforting...
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#3441 Day 5: New Year's Day Meditation to Set Intentions - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Start your year with calm, clarity, and a meaningful New Year’s Day meditation ceremony designed to help you reset your nervous system, welcome a fresh start, and set intentions you can actually follow. In this guided practice, you’ll use soothing slow-breathing to settle your body, a simple water-and-candle ritual to mark a new beginning, and an inspiring story to remind you that you don’t have to change everything at once—you only need to open the doorway. You’ll also create one clear intention for the year ahead and turn it into a practical “if–then” plan (a research-backed...
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#3440 New Year's Eve Meditation Ceremony - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Close the year with a soothing New Year’s Eve meditation ceremony designed to help you release what no longer serves you, reflect on what truly mattered, and step gently into a fresh beginning. In this episode, you’ll be guided through a calming yet powerful meditation and a simple end-of-year ritual to create real emotional closure, and a warm, inspiring story to remind you that you don’t have to “fix” yourself—you’re simply clearing the lens so your inner light can shine. Together, we’ll honor the lessons, the tenderness, and the strength that carried you through the past...
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#3439 Day 3: Ground Your Body, Quiet Your Mind - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
On Day 3 of Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace, we shift into GROUND—the practice of finding your footing before the new year arrives. If your mind has been looping through what happened this year (or racing ahead into what’s next), this episode will bring you back into your body with a calming, science-backed breathing practice called Coherent Breathing (5 seconds in, 5 seconds out). You’ll learn why grounding works—how slow, steady breathing supports your nervous system, quiets mental noise, and helps you feel safe enough to settle. Through a gentle shoreline story and an...
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#3438 Day 2: A Meditation for Deep Rest at Year’s End - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Rest is not a reward—it’s a biological necessity. This guided meditation for rest helps calm mental fatigue, quiet the nervous system, and release the pressure to do or resolve anything before the year ends. Through gentle affirmation and reflection, this episode supports deep rest, emotional recovery, and nervous system regulation—perfect for the quiet days between the active holiday season and New Year. This is day 2 of a 7-day meditation series, "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations," episodes 3437-3443. ABOUT THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION JOURNEY: Closing the Year with...
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#3437 Day 1: Release Emotional Weight - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
This year-end meditation invites you to gently release emotional weight, mental clutter, and nervous system tension from the past year. Through science-backed insight and guided visualization, you’ll learn how release supports stress reduction and emotional healing—without forcing closure or positivity. This daily meditation is designed to help you let go safely, soften the body, and begin the New Year transition with grace and ease. This is day 1 of a 7-day meditation series, "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations," episodes 3437-3443. ABOUT THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION...
info_outlineCalm your heart and soothe your anxious thoughts as you relax into your guided meditation today.
This week's series guides you on a compassion journey. You are guided in meditations to open your heart to the pain and suffering of others. You may experience that compassion is much easier when we share similar experiences through suffering.
This is part 6 of a 7-Part Healing Through Compassion Meditation series, Episodes 1861-1867.
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.
For free meditation tools to help you start meditating please head over to my website at www.SipandOm.com, and there you'll find a multitude of free resources to help you on your Meditation Journey.
Sample from a selection of resources including:
*a Free Private Facebook Group to connect with meditators from around the world
*a Free Meditation Bundle to get started meditating
*a Free Sleep Technique to Sleep Better
*a Free Instant Calm Breathing Technique
*a Free Guide to Get Started Meditating.
***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.
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