Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and 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 technique is customized around a weekly theme.

And our theme for this episode, 726, is the benefits of meditation.

So in each episode this week, seven episodes and all, you're guided exploring firsthand the benefits of meditation in a customized meditation for each

benefit that I share so I've done a little research and I've come across some of

the top benefits of meditation that scientists and philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, people every

day on the street who are using meditation, these are the benefits that people notice no matter

where they are, no matter what culture they're from. And I'm sharing these major benefits with you.

So today, the benefit that you will be exploring in a customized meditation is that meditation helps to improve relationships.

And one of the ways it helps to do this is that it helps you to become more tolerant.

Stress has a tendency to make you feel small or constricted as though you don't have

many choices or possibilities.

And when you meditate, you begin to focus on possibilities around you. You feel more expansive. And so you begin to see things in a much

broader perspective. Now this is in regard to many different relationships, romantic relationships, personal relationships of all kind with

coworkers, family members, siblings, spouses, children.

And when you start to meditate, you begin to have more compassion.

And I'll also include the relationship you have with yourself is improved tremendously

when you meditate.

You feel more confident.

You feel much more empowered.

For one thing, when you show up for yourself day in and day out, whether or not you have a great meditation, it's just like when you work out and you go and you might not have the greatest workout, but you feel pretty good that you did it.

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