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

who shares a different meditation technique every single day customized around our weekly theme.

And our weekly theme this week is calm, all things calm.

And so this is episode 589.

And in today's meditation, you're going to be guided in a walking meditation, a calm walking meditation. Every Saturday I leave a walking

meditation for you. I encourage you to go outside as often as possible and meditate, sitting

right on the ground, connecting to the earth. Well, on Saturdays, I like for you to get out and connect with your environment as you walk.

So many days, you're walking from point A to point B without really taking in the beauty of your surroundings. And when you take some time to really acknowledge what

you're walking by and acknowledge the place you're in as you walk, it's an amazing experience.

You feel very interconnected with your surroundings when you do this.

While I'm recording this meditation in a beautiful natural location, I am in Arizona skiing.

And you might not think of Arizona as being a place to ski, but there is a ski mountain here where I am in Flagstaff, Arizona.

And we are skiing here.

We had some great snowfall over the weekend, so we drove up from Phoenix, and we are skiing. So it's a little bit different from Florida where I

live where I'm normally recording meditations. It's really cold and icy and snowy out.

But it's so beautiful to see the snow in the mountains on all the pine trees.

So wherever you are, really take in the natural beauty of your area.

Whether you're in a natural area or in a city, there's still beauty to be found wherever you are.

We'll begin this walking meditation the same way we begin all of the meditations.

That's with you standing still.

Now, you don't have to walk as you do this meditation.

You can go ahead and be seated in your home.

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