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

So our themes change out every single week. And our theme for this week in

this episode, as I record this, is episode 626. And our theme is resilience. When you're going through a difficult time, it's often hard to remember that

you have everything you need within you and you can start to lose your confidence and not pull

from your own resilience. So in every single episode this

week, you'll discover a different technique to help you become more resilient. And yesterday,

we launched into the theme and I gave you a lot of context and a lot of different examples from

messages that listeners of the podcast sent to me about their own challenges with resilience

and so this whole week I'll be offering a different technique.

Every single Monday, this is for Monday's recording, I share an affirmation meditation.

Affirmations are positive statements that remind you of what you're focusing on.

Research shows that over 80% of our thoughts

we think each day are negative,

and that over 90% of those negative thoughts are repetitive.

So you could say many of us go around

repeating negative thoughts each day,

and that's especially true if you feel

your confidence faltering. If you feel like you're in a really challenging situation that

kind of can get you down, you can feel as though you're not sure how to get back on track,

how to get back to where you feel more like yourself again, where you feel more confident and secure.

So we're going to be repeating an affirmation together.

We repeat it the same way I share an affirmation every week.

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