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 customized around a weekly theme.

And our theme this week as we begin, or rather we're right in the middle of our meditation series

this week the theme is relax and let go and this is a theme all about you honoring yourself

letting go of those things that no longer serve you, and relaxing,

allowing yourself to release and relax and to accept exactly who you are. And in today's

episode, which is 621, you're going to be guided using a mudra meditation technique.

If you're not familiar with mudras, no worries.

Mudras are simply a way that you can position your hands.

Now, you can do the meditation technique or

you don't have to do the meditation technique. You can still receive all the

benefits of the meditation even if you don't do the mudra. But a mudra is simply a way that you position your hands to stimulate specific areas of your brain.

By applying light pressure to certain areas of your hand, you activate the corresponding region of the brain.

This works a lot like acupressure, and so you might want to try it.

You know, I meditated for over a decade before I gave mudras a try,

and now they truly are my go-to meditation technique.

So I challenge you, step a little bit outside of your comfort zone and just

just give it a try and see see how you feel when you do the mudra. How I'm going to guide you

in this meditation is I'm going to have you relax the different areas of your body in a progressive relaxation

meditation technique where I'll guide you through that and then you'll start to pull more

into yourself by noticing your breath and honoring the state that you're in so even if you're

not feeling so great right now,

then when you allow yourself to really experience your breathing

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