Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I congratulate 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 every day in the podcast.

And each technique is customized around a weekly theme so you can explore a topic in depth and really see what will work best for you when it comes to meditation

techniques. One of the main reasons I so enjoy sharing meditation techniques is because I know

it's not always easy to sit down and meditate and that you may listen to these podcasts walking

when you're lying down in bed while you're doing your chores in a great many other places

besides seated on your meditation cushion and I want you to know that's perfectly fine.

Because we all begin this journey where we learn to connect more to our inner stillness

to help manage stress triggers.

We all start somewhere.

And I don't want you to feel like oh you know meditation is just not for you

because you've tried it and your mind keeps wandering so you're going to give up or you have aches

and pains as you try to sit down to meditate of course you can sit very comfortably in a chair or on the floor, on the

end of your bed, wherever you happen to find yourself. The most important thing I want you to know

is that meditation techniques are a beautiful way for you to weave meditation into your daily lifestyle.

So whether or not you have a very serene meditation space where you sit down and meditate each day,

or whether you find yourself using a meditation

technique while you're stuck in the longest line at the grocery store, or you're sitting

there in rush hour traffic and someone has just cut you off.

I know that is what day-to-day life is like.

It's not always like if you go to a meditation

retreat and you're in this beautiful supportive environment. Some people live in spiritual

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