Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary MacLea and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different meditation technique every single day on the podcast.

And each episode I customize a meditation using a meditation technique, especially for that week's theme.

And our theme for this week is all about managing negative reactions to stress triggers. So every day this week we've explored

a different meditation, including a meditation technique, to help you manage stress triggers.

And I really enjoy sharing meditation techniques because you can do these techniques,

whether you're seated on your meditation cushion or your right smack in the midst

of a stressful time throughout your busy day.

So I like meditation techniques because they're portable.

You can carry them with you and use them when you need them the most.

And sometimes when you need them the most is not always when you're seated meditating.

It's often when you are going about your day.

So our meditation for today is going to be using a mudra.

Now if you're not familiar with mudras, please don't let that word scare you off. Mudras are simply a way you position your hand.

And it's really a Sanskrit word, an ancient Indian word for seal, mark, or gesture.

And they're often used during meditation or when you're doing pranayama breathing

exercises in yoga as a way to help direct the flow of energy in your body so according to

yoga if you stimulate different areas of your hand this correlates to different

areas of your brain and so just by applying light pressure to these areas on

your hand you activate that corresponding region of the brain so it's just

very similar to yoga how certain poses help to activate your nervous system,

which sends messages to your brain.

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