How to Reset and Reconnect: A Quick Meditation for Daily Clarity

Dr. Christine Li [00:00:00]:
Welcome back to the Make Time for Success podcast. We have arrived at episode 300.

Dr. Christine Li [00:00:09]:
Woohoo!

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So today, in celebration of arriving at the 300th episode, I would like to share a lovely meditation with you. I just recorded it, I wrapped it up, And then all of a sudden it hit me. It hit me that it's a little bit of a minor miracle that I've arrived at the 300th episode. I remember crossing the threshold of the 200th episode and wondering how would I ever get to 300, but here we are. And it's in that spirit that I created this meditation for each of us. It is An episode that reminds us that we have new beginnings all the time, that we can't really see the full road ahead sometimes, but that doesn't mean we can't end up feeling like we're winning, that we're definitely going to get there, that it's not going to take us multiple years to get to our Home like it did Odysseus. I just saw the movie. And that things can actually work in our favor, that we don't have to be stressed out at every turn.

Dr. Christine Li [00:01:29]:
So this is that kind of meditation. It's a little bit hopeful, it's a little bit reflective, and I hope you get a lot out of it. I hope it gives you the reset that you might need. Today, I am so grateful that you are a listener to my content and this podcast, which I love so much. I have just been having a blast creating each episode. We go one at a time, and that's really what we can all do. We make choices, we prepare ourselves for each day, and we hope for the best. Thanks again for being here, and let's go listen to this meditation together.

Dr. Christine Li [00:02:16]:
Hi, I'm Dr. Christine Li, and I'm a psychologist and a procrastination coach. I've helped thousands of people move past procrastination and overwhelm so they could begin working to their potential. In this podcast, you're going to learn powerful strategies for getting your mind, body, and energy to work together so that you can focus on what's really important and accomplish the goals you want. Hi, I'm Dr. Christine Leigh, and I'm a psychologist and a procrastination coach.

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to achieve.

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When you start living within your full power, you're going to see how being productive can be easy and how you can create success on demand. Welcome to the Make Time for Success podcast.

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So for today's episode, we're going to enjoy a quick meditation together. Please, before you start, make sure You're in a safe, quiet space, that you're not operating any heavy machinery, and that you are ready to have a quick reset. I'm so honored and happy that you're here with me today to mark the 300th episode of the Make Time for Success podcast. Instead of looking backwards today, I'm going to help you To see what's up ahead, the new beginnings that are awaiting each and every one of us. So let's get started now. Sit still. Be still. No matter where you are, you can be seated, you could be lying down.

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You can have your eyes closed, or you can have them Gently open, and you can have your shoulders rest.

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Bring them down.

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Make sure you're bringing in a state of relaxation. Breathe in and take this in-breath slowly, and then breathe out again slowly and gently. Take another deep breath, long and slow, and breathe out. One more time to get us set. The whole point of this meditation is to help you to be here now. That's the whole point, just to get present, just to be present. There's so much that might be floating around in your head, in your to-do list right now, in the day that's about to start, but it's okay just to let all of that go for now and to take another deep breath. To start, we're going to become open to the possibilities ahead, the possibilities that we're looking forward to and that we can predict and we can see very clearly, and also the ones that we won't be able to anticipate, the ones we don't know about, the ones that are also there ready for us.

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Both are for us, the prepared and the unprepared, and we are getting ready to receive all of these possibilities. Take another deep breath in and a deep breath out. While we are opening ourselves up to the multitude of possibilities Ahead, we are going to work on sharpening ourselves. What I mean by sharpening ourselves is that we are going to, on a daily basis, prepare ourselves to recognize the wonderful signs that are pointing us in the direction of the possibilities that are right for us. There will be signals all over the place, but when we sharpen and prepare ourselves, we will know with our intuition, with our senses, what is meant for us. We will become people who notice things. We will notice when the messages are coming in for us. We will become people who are paying attention instead of being passive.

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We are going to have a radar for wonderful possibilities that are meant for us. We are no longer thinking that life happens to us. We are going to start thinking and knowing That life is happening for us, and now comes another part that we have to take care of. We have to understand that our choices, the choices we make every single day throughout the day, these choices shape our reality. Again, you want to tell yourself. My choices shape my reality. So much of life is literally out of our control. The weather, who comes our way, all these other things that we can't control, the things that are on the news.

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But there is a whole world of choices that is within our control, fully within our control. And the way we make our choices, saying yes to things, saying no to other things, how we choose to use our energy every single day, the way we make our choices is the way our lives run. It's the way our reality is literally shaped. So in this moment, in this meditation, We can say to ourselves, I commit to making my choices with full self-trust. Again, I commit to making my choices with full self-trust. Take another breath here. When we make our choices with full self-trust, we are guiding ourselves towards the results that we really crave, that we already envision, and the ones that we absolutely desire. When we trust ourselves fully, that means we can navigate through choices that we make, even when things don't go the way we want to.

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When we trust ourselves, we know we can turn the ship and reroute ourselves. And that is why we can trust ourselves, because we know that even if things don't go exactly our way, that we can make other choices to again head in the right direction for ourselves. There is no need to stress here. Actually, stress oftentimes takes us off course. It makes us feel not ourselves. It makes us lose our trust in ourselves. It makes us lose trust in the reality that we are experiencing. So instead of digging deep into a stress vortex, we are going to practice making choices and making them with confidence and self-trust.

Dr. Christine Li [00:10:48]:
And we are going to get better and better and better at this every single day. And stress will occur. Stress is a natural Stress happens when we are embarking upon new possibilities, when we are open to new possibilities. But what we can do when stress comes in is we can double down on our plan. When we sense stress, we can come back to the present moment. Just by doing the thing that we did at the front of this meditation. All we need to do to return to the present moment is take another breath or 2. Let's do that here.

Dr. Christine Li [00:11:41]:
When we breathe, we remember how to reset to the present moment. We remember how to come home to ourselves. We remember that we are open to possibilities and that we are in our most powerful state when we are calm and we are in the present moment. We are not in our most present state when we are giving in to stress, when we are overwhelmed, when we feel doubtful, when we feel hopeless. So we're going to keep our hope. We're going to keep our choices running. We're going to keep our energy healthy and in flow. And we're going to watch out for stress as a signal of something new, but not as a signal for us to break down or to fall into negative cycles.

Dr. Christine Li [00:12:40]:
Let's take another deep breath here. So let's recap here. What we've learned is that today is a new beginning and that every day is a new beginning. Every day we have a new chance to choose. We have new chances to choose for greater health. We have new chances To choose ourselves first instead of putting ourselves last and forgetting all of our needs. We have a new chance to pursue our biggest dreams, even in small ways. We have a new chance to select what we're going to opt into with great clarity, with the confidence that what we desire Is possible, is doable, is fine, is going to enliven us and give us even more energy than we started the day with.

Dr. Christine Li [00:13:47]:
And we're also going to decide that our possibilities can come to us in an easy way. Not everything needs to be hard work, although we are going to put the work in. We're also going to learn to recognize not only our power in the present moment, not only our wonderful options of making choices every day, but we're going to recognize ease. We're going to recognize when things and people and opportunities and good luck are coming and flowing to us with ease. We're not going to reject that. We're not going to make everything difficult anymore. We're going to enjoy ease and flow. And now, as we come to a close for episode number 300, we're going to be confident.

Dr. Christine Li [00:14:43]:
We are going to be confident that things are working in our favor. We're going to use that belief and that awareness To actively make our choices, we're going to magnetize what we want to come to us daily. We're going to prepare for good things to happen to us and to come to us. Let's take another active deep breath in and out. However you landed. Here at episode 300 with me today, I want to say I am grateful for those circumstances. I'm so glad we connected here. I'm so glad we got to take some deep breaths, to relax our shoulders, and to really remind ourselves that there are so many possibilities waiting for us just to be ready.

Dr. Christine Li [00:15:45]:
Just to choose, just to remember how powerful and wonderful we each are. I'm really looking forward to watching you make time for success after today's meditation experience together. Thank you so much for participating in this experience with me. If you would like this meditation in written form, I invite you to get the free download of this meditation by going to maketimeforsuccesspodcast.com/300meditation. Again, it's maketimeforsuccesspodcast.com/300meditation. Please write or type the number 300 to get the meditation. Again, maketimeforsuccesspodcast.com/300meditation. I am really looking forward to recording the next 100 episodes for you, and I can't really know right now what's going to be in each one of them, but I know they're going to be great.

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I'll see you soon.

Dr. Christine Li [00:16:58]:
Bye. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Make Time for Success podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard, you can subscribe To make sure you get notified of upcoming episodes. You can also visit our website, maketimeforsuccesspodcast.com, for past episodes, show notes, and all the resources we mention on the show. Feel free to connect with me over on Instagram too. You can find me there under the name Procrastination Coach. Send me a DM and let me know what your thoughts are about the episodes you've been listening to, and let me know any topics that you might like me to talk about on the show. I'd love to hear all about how you're making time for success.

Dr. Christine Li [00:17:39]:
Talk to you soon.