Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I am a meditation teacher

and I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part

of who you are. And in today's guided meditation, you're going to be exploring a mudra,

focused on our weekly theme, the theme this week, of love. And this is episode 565.

Now, you don't have to do the mudra in order to receive the benefits of the meditation.

You can still do the meditation without the techniques.

But I like to leave you a technique because you can do the techniques, whether you're seated in your meditation space, or whether you are right in the midst of your incredibly busy day when stress triggers are all around

you. These mudras help you to refocus your thoughts.

Now, mudra is the Sanskrit word for seal or mark or gesture.

And they're often used during meditation to help direct the energy flow in the body.

And so according to yoga, different areas of the hand stimulate specific areas of the brain.

And when you apply light pressure to these areas of your hand, you activate the corresponding

region of the brain.

So it acts in a similar way as yoga or acupressure.

So get ready to do today's Mudra meditation on our theme this week of love.

Now you can find all the different meditation techniques at my website at sip

and ome.com. There you'll see the mudra and the different meditation techniques and different

references that I point out as I share these love meditations with you. And we're getting ready to celebrate.

If you celebrate Christmas, it's coming up the day after tomorrow. So whether you're celebrating

Christmas or not, a love meditation is a powerful way to improve your relationships.

And I want to focus on self-love.

Because many experts, I shared some research with you the other day

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