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 technique is customized around

a weekly theme. And I want to tell you how much I honor you for giving yourself permission

to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.

And all the different meditation techniques that I share in today's meditation, as well

as all the techniques I've been sharing throughout this entire meditation series, can be found

over at my website at sip and ome.com. Just look for this week's series and you'll find everything you

need that goes along with all the tips, the techniques, and the guided meditations.

Well, in today's meditation, you're going to be guided in a sleep

better tonight meditation and the theme for this week is all about your health

and wellness using meditation techniques to improve your health and wellness using meditation techniques to improve your health and wellness,

following a lot of the principles offered in functional medicine.

And we launched into this series with an interview with a functional medicine practitioner,

and then each week we've been exploring

customized techniques to go along with some of the main principles of functional medicine.

So one of the main principles of preventative health care is getting enough sleep each night. Now you

might be wondering how much sleep is enough sleep. Well as always it depends on who

you are the kind of lifestyle you, and even your age can determine the

amount of sleep that you might need to get each night.

Well, over at the National Sleep Foundation, they're recommending that adults get seven to

nine hours of sleep a night. Do you get that much sleep a night?

And what is the quality of your sleep actually? So you wake up and toss and turn in the middle of the night.

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