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 week we have a theme that we focus on throughout the entire week.

And we do customized meditation techniques each day around the theme.

And I want to let you know that I honor you for being here, for giving yourself permission

to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.

And in today's episode, which is episode 629, you are going to be guided in a meditation on the weekly theme, which is all about non-judgment.

And you may judge yourself or you might find yourself judging others the world around you.

Rush hour traffic, what you're eating, what the weather's like,

all kinds of things, whatever comes your way, you may feel inclined to judge this.

And it's something that can be a little tricky to overcome if you're not really aware of how your

thoughts can shift to judgmental thoughts.

And usually, as we've been exploring throughout this week, when you judge someone, it's more about a fear or insecurity that you have

otherwise when you come up against something that's different from you or that is

better than you maybe there's somebody who does something better than you and you feel a little threatened

by that so you can kind of judge them and think, well, the reason they're able to do that is

because they don't have to work as hard as I do or they have more advantages, whatever it may be.

Or it could be a situation where you feel like you yourself are better than someone, where you think,

you know, I just am so much better at this or that, and it can be that way.

I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

So as you go through the meditations in this week's series, including today's meditation, pay close attention to how you are thinking throughout the day.

Just kind of notice how you're thinking and determine whether or not you're judging someone, including yourself,

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