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 meditation is customized around a weekly theme. And in each day's episode you receive a different

meditation technique so you can explore the weekly theme on many different

levels and really immerse yourself into the theme that's where you start to see

amazing results with your meditation ritual.

And it also helps you when you use meditation techniques. They help you to make meditation a

natural part of your day. Well, in today's episode, which is episode 731, you're going to be guided in a meditation

using an affirmation to help you stop negative thoughts. Now, this is one of the biggest

challenges meditators face, whether you're beginning meditator

or you've been meditating for years.

Negative thoughts are hard to place when you're seated meditating.

In fact, even throughout your day, research shows that over 80% of the thoughts we think

are negative and over 90% of those thoughts are repetitive. So it seems as though many of us may be

running around all day repeating negative thoughts. Just imagine what your life would be like

if you had some simple techniques to do to help you reverse this trend. So every day this

week I'm sharing a meditation to help you stop negative thoughts.

And for today, which is for a Monday's meditation, you don't have to follow the meditations

in any sequence.

But every Monday I share an affirmation.

So an affirmation is simply a positive statement that you repeat and

it's a great way to help you reverse negative thinking and it's also important to

keep your affirmations short and succinct because if you try to memorize a

beautiful flowery poetic affirmation chances are that when the rubber hits the road and you are stressed

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