Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different meditation technique every single day on the podcast customized around a weekly theme.

And in today's episode, which is episode 586, you're going to be guided in a meditation

using a mudra to help you be calm.

So our meditation theme this week is calm, all things calm.

After busy New Year and holiday holiday as you launch into the

new year I want you to do so with peace and calm and I'm going to be sharing with

you a mudra if you're new to mudras you may not really be sure what a mudra is.

No worries.

It took me about a decade of meditation before I actually started to use mudras.

Now they are one of my go-to meditation techniques.

Remember that the techniques I share with you here on the podcast

that you do in your meditation can be used throughout the busiest part of your day. That's the

beauty of meditation techniques. Well, Mudra is the Sanskrit word for seal, mark, or gesture.

They're often used during meditation as a way to direct energy flow in the body.

And according to yoga, when you stimulate different areas of your hand, it stimulates specific areas of your brain.

So you just apply light pressure to particular areas in your hand and this activates a corresponding

region of the brain. I find mudras to be incredibly effective. They are an ancient part of the Buddhist and Hindu traditions.

They were developed thousands of years ago, and they're still relevant today.

Many people all over the world use mudras.

So as you get ready to do this meditation, I will tell you

that you don't ever have to do the techniques I share with you. You can still be guided

through the meditation without doing the techniques. The meditation techniques give you an option

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