Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different meditation technique on the podcast every single day. And each technique is customized around a weekly theme. And our theme this week is all about happiness, being happy.

So in last week's meditation series, which was all about you using meditation to manage your very gene expression, you discovered many ways that meditation

can benefit you by simply changing your lifestyle and being consistent as you meditate and do other

things as well. Improve your diet, think more positive thoughts, all these things that science is showing

that now there's actually research to show that this can greatly benefit your health.

Well, one of the most important ways that you can help yourself to manage all kinds of

modern day ailments is to be happy, to increase the happiness in your life.

And so in this week's meditation series,

you'll learn meditation techniques

to help you increase your happiness,

to enjoy your life just as it is.

Now, I want to mention that I do share a meditation technique

in each meditation because meditation techniques can help you focus

your mind when your mind begins to wander when you meditate.

And they also help to transition you from whatever you were doing in your busy day to

inner stillness because it's just so hard to sit down and instantly

be calm. It's much easier if you gradually emerge into stillness and you can do things that

help to relax your mind and body and that's what the techniques do.

And you can also do the techniques as you go throughout your busy day.

When stress triggers strike you, you can do these meditation techniques.

And you never have to do the technique.

You can still do these meditations without doing the technique.

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