You are listening to the Daily Meditation podcast and in today's episode you're going to be

guided using a powerful mudra for hope and this is episode 424.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for showing up for yourself, for giving yourself this time to meditate.

I know that there were probably a lot of things that you thought you needed to do more than you needed to meditate.

But here you are making this happen for yourself.

So I honor you for doing that.

Well, in today's meditation, we're doing 10-minute meditations for the summer months because in the summer, it's the

season where you're more likely to be active and engaged.

And I always encourage you to meditate for as long as you can, especially 15 or 15 minutes or even up to half an hour.

But even meditating for 10 minutes at a time can offer you tremendous benefits.

And so after I guide you through the meditation, I'll always share some context with you to teach you

something, some takeaway that you can apply to your meditation ritual right away, and

then I'll guide you into the meditation.

And then after I finish guiding you, I encourage you always to sit and meditate on your own.

Because the techniques that I share with you, those techniques, they get you to a place

where you can experience stillness.

Meditation is when your mind and body are calm and you're really not thinking of anything at all at that point.

You're simply experiencing the stillness.

But the techniques are a way to help transition you from whatever you were doing in your busy day to the point where you can tap

into that stillness. So in today's meditation, it's a Wednesday and every Wednesday I share

a mudra. Every single day I share a different meditation technique with you, and each technique is customized around a weekly theme.

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