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 particular topic in depth using different techniques to see what works best for you.

I encourage you to be open-minded about

some of the techniques that I share because you never know what works best for you. I remember

when I first started meditating and I was hesitant to try a mudra or to really explore what chakras were.

And now I will say those are some of my favorite meditations.

And many other listeners tell me the same.

They tell me they used to just skip over those meditations on the podcast, and then they started listening,

and pretty soon they were hooked before they knew it.

And they tell me that those are their very favorite episodes.

So in today's episode, we're going to be doing a walking meditation.

And I like to end every series I do with a walking meditation. And I like to end every series I do with a walking meditation

because I like you to connect outside in nature. And many of you listen to these episodes

every day throughout the entire week following a particular topic and so I want to reward

you for all the hard work you're doing for yourself because it's not easy

showing up for yourself every day to meditate many people have the notion

that meditation is passive.

Well, that couldn't be further from the truth.

And if you've been listening to the podcast for a while, you know full well that meditation

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