Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I congratulate you for giving yourself

permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. I am a meditation teacher

who shares a different meditation technique every day on the

podcast and each technique is customized around a weekly theme. So we explore a theme in depth

throughout the entire week using many different meditation techniques.

And I always provide you with stories or research or context so that you can apply some of the principles of meditation into a meditation lifestyle for yourself.

And in today's meditation, it's a Wednesday as I record this meditation, and this is the day that I share a mudra.

Now don't be alarmed if you're not really sure what a mudra is.

I really didn't do mudras when I meditated for over a decade

and so I completely understand where that word, just the word mudra, might kind of throw you off a little bit,

but many people tell me now that mudras are their best meditation technique that they use all the

time throughout their day. And I have to say that is the same for myself as well.

So you might want to just try today's mudra. You don't ever have to do the meditation

technique I offer. But I challenge you to try the technique to see how it works for you. You never

know what might work best for you. And throughout

this week, we've been participating in a week-long challenge customized around the theme. So

every week I also offer you a meditation challenge. It's a way for you to really incorporate some of these

themes into your everyday life, taking your meditation off your cushion and into some of the

most trying times in your life where stress triggers are coming your way and you need a way to be

calm. You can try some of these meditation techniques to help you. Well back to

mudras. A mudra is a Sanskrit word and it means, basically it means gesture.

And they're often used in meditation or pranayama, which is the breathing part of yoga.

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