Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different meditation technique on the podcast every single day.

And each meditation technique is customized around a weekly theme.

And so in today's episode, which is episode 686, you'll be guided in a meditation where you combine a couple of the meditation techniques

that we've explored in this week's meditation series.

And our theme for this week's series, so your meditation journey this week has been all about many meditations

using meditation techniques during your day. So taking them off your meditation cushion

as you're seated nicely meditating using the techniques in your meditation taking them off the

cushion and into your everyday life when stress triggers come your way and when you might feel

very distracted or overwhelmed,

or you need some hope,

these meditation techniques can make the difference in your daily life

because they help you to transition from whatever emotion you were in

to a place of peace and stillness as you experience in meditation.

So we've explored different techniques each day this week and every Friday, this is a meditation for a Friday.

And every Friday I share an herbal tea with you because herbs can benefit you in a similar

way as can meditation techniques.

And I also share several of the meditation techniques that we've explored throughout the week

and I layer them

into one nice meditation for you.

So the tea, we'll begin with the tea, the tea I've selected for you today is a tea that will

help to manage headaches, especially migraine headaches.

And I had a request earlier in the week from our private Facebook group, which you are

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