You are listening to episode 819.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

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

And I want to say how much I honor you for doing this for yourself as you sit down to meditate whether you're walking or lying down or moving about doing errands.

It's all good.

We all start somewhere on our slowdown journey.

And I want to say that thank you to those of you who showed up for today's

webinar on how to manage stress triggers with meditation techniques.

I shared eight meditation techniques

with you today on my very first webinar

and it was a lot of fun.

I'll be doing the same webinar and it was a lot of fun. I'll be doing the same webinar, improving it and

spending a little more time on each of the techniques. I felt like I rushed through them and that will be for next week. You can find out how to sign up for that over on my website and also over at my Facebook page at sip and ome.com.

I am Mary Meckley and I am a meditation guide where I share a different meditation every single day and each

meditation is customized around a weekly theme so you get to explore a particular topic in depth

so you can really master it.

Well in today's meditation I'm going to guide you using a meditation technique and I'm also

going to share an herbal tea with you that you can use because the herbs can benefit you in a similar way as

meditation techniques. These things all work together. In fact, as I shared in the webinar with you today, I started slowing down by

sipping tea. It was when I lived in Japan where I'd sit quietly and enjoy a cup of

tea. That was a very common thing to do there and whether you're working in a corporation like I did for a

while or teaching at a school which I also did there for a while or whatever you may

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