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In today's episode, we're going to do a short meditation to use as a daily check-in. This is a great place for you to

come back to when you want to do a daily mindful check-in and we'll run through this meditation together

and then you can do it at other times if you would like.

One of the things about practicing a meditation and hearing it, being

guided through it, is that eventually you can recall it yourself. You don't need the guidance. but please use the guidance for as long as you need until you can go quietly within and just remember the way that we went through this and you can do it yourself.

So for a meditation check-in,

this can be really, really helpful.

Like I said, when you can actually do this enough so that you

can remember it yourself. It's going to be relatively short so you could do it

whenever you are feeling the need to do it.

Recently we had a podcast about White Coat Syndrome and I suggest sitting in the

doctor's office that you do a meditation.

Why not? Why not use that time to your advantage instead of letting the lizard brain, the amygdala, get us all ramped up and take us into a space

of feeling danger.

So this meditation practice, this short meditation practice gives you a taste of mindfulness. It's a check-in and what I like

about short meditations or check-ins is that you tend to use them in these little

bits and pieces of time versus having to set aside a full 20 minutes for a meditation and you know what if you're just

getting started five minutes is a great start actually what I have people commit to when I am teaching them, meditation, is to commit to one minute

a day. It doesn't need to be anything more complicated than that when we're getting started. So this

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