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 congratulate you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.

And all the different meditation techniques, as well as all the resources I refer to and the meditations can be found at my website at sip

and ome.com. There, go ahead and look for this week's series and in the resources you'll also find a link

to join a free private Facebook group where you can connect with meditators from around the world who listen to the meditations just like you do.

Or you can simply send me a message.

If you're on your mobile device there, might be easier to do this, just send me a message

on my public Cipidome Facebook page requesting to be added to our private group and I will

happily add you.

Well, in today's series, which is all about health and wellness, using principles from

functional medicine, we are at episode 757, and this is for a Friday as I record this meditation,

and every Friday I call it SIP and Ome Friday. And this is for a Friday as I record this meditation.

And every Friday, I call it Sip and Om Friday.

Again, that's the name of my website.

Sip, just as if you're sipping tea and Ome,

which you often say at the end of a meditation.

And in every Friday's meditation, I share an herbal tea because the herbs can benefit you in a similar way as do meditation techniques.

Of course, you always want to check and make sure that the herb that I share with you today

is an herb that will benefit you because herbs are powerful.

So you want to check with your physician, especially if you're taking other medications

and definitely don't share these with children or if you're breastfeeding, you always want to

make sure that the herbs are going to be safe. So I will share with you an herb and then guide you

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