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 on the

podcast and each technique is customized around a weekly theme so you get to explore a topic in

depth and use a variety of meditation techniques to see what will work best for you.

And all the different techniques, meditations, and all the references and resources I mention

throughout this seven-day series, a meditation for each day of the week, are found on my website at sip and ome.com.

And just look under the resources section there and you'll find all the techniques and

meditations and everything I mentioned in today's episode.

Well, our theme this week, we continue, this is the sixth part of this seven-part series.

Our theme is feeling safe.

What it takes to feel safe.

How to feel safe when you are faced with uncertainty and fear and

fear is one of the most debilitating types of emotions similar to anger and it's also similar to love and compassion and

gratitude some of the most powerful emotions out there so in today's episode

you're going to be guided in a meditation to help you manage your composure as you face fear and uncertainty.

And as it's a Friday, this is a meditation for a Friday, every Friday I share an herbal tea

because teas can benefit you in a similar way as to meditation techniques.

For myself, I know that it all started with tea for me.

I calmed down and slowed down with tea before I ever sat down to meditate.

But tea started to give me the experience of stillness and just taking some time for myself.

And eventually I wanted a little more and so I started to explore yoga and all different kinds of arts, ancient arts that slow you down. And finally, I

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