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'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 a little different from what I usually share.

What I'm doing this week is I'm reading questions from listeners

who share with me some of their top stress triggers when they meditate.

And by this, I mean, sometimes when you go to sit down and meditate, it can actually

become stressful.

Even though you're trying to sit down and have this nice calming meditation, sometimes

you can feel stressed out because you feel worried like, oh no,

I'm not feeling calm. Then that must mean I'm just not cut out to meditate and maybe I'm just

a really stressed out person and there's no hope for me. Well, I want you to know that there are many things you can

do to help you when you sit down to meditate. So meditation should not be anything that causes

you even more stress. But I will say that I do see this time and time again where people feel very stressed about

the fact that they're trying to do this meditation where they've read, that it's the best

thing they could possibly do for all areas of their life, which is true.

But when they sit down, it just isn't really happening

for them.

So I'm going to share with you a message from a listener who articulated this really well.

Now, today is also a walking meditation.

So this is for a Saturday's episode and every Saturday I share a walking meditation

to get you outside moving and connecting with your environment.

And also, I really like you to take your meditation ritual off your cushion and into your everyday

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