Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different meditation technique every day on the podcast.

And each technique is customized around a weekly theme so you can connect to the best part of who you are.

And that's what you do when you meditate.

And I want to honor you for what you're doing for yourself because meditation is one of the

most important ways to improve nearly every area of your life.

Research is showing more and more evidence of meditation,

helping your sleep, your overall health and wellness,

especially diseases such as heart disease and cancer,

some of the top diseases of our time.

And of course, it helps to improve relationships, how you manage stress triggers throughout your day.

And also it helps you to focus so that you can get done all those important things you want to do with your life.

Well, in today's episode, which is episode 647, you're going to be guided in a meditation

using an affirmation to accept yourself exactly as you are.

So it's a self-confidence, self-esteem, self-acceptance, affirmation.

And every Monday on the podcast, this is for a Monday meditation, I share an affirmation

and I share it in a unique way where you really engage yourself fully on all levels of your conscience so that

the affirmation seeps into you so it absorbs into your very being and I encourage you to

repeat an affirmation when you wake up in the morning when you go to bed at night and

any time that you can throughout the day because in the morning

when you start your day and in the evening when you in your day those are times where there's a subtle

shift in your energy so when you wake up in morning, you've been sleeping and you're getting

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