You're listening to episode 833.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I congratulate you for being here for giving yourself this time to sit down and spend a few

minutes or even longer meditating. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation guide who shares a different

meditation every single day on the podcast and each meditation I customize around a weekly theme so you get to

explore a particular topic in depth so you can really master it. And in today's meditation you're going to be guided in a soothing

meditation to help you experience silence because our theme this week is pure

meditation and it follows up with last week's theme which was Inner Stillness and you

discovered many ways to experience stillness and I guided you through meditations.

Well this week I want you to explore your own inner stillness. So I'll be guiding you but I'd like you to really experience

and become comfortable with and familiar with your inner silence.

And this is sometimes a little bit more challenging than you think it might be because you may be thinking that

when you sit down to meditate you should just instantly feel calm But that's not always the case. In fact, that's often not the case. If you're

a long-time meditator, I think you know this already when you sit down to meditate

allow yourself to transition at your own pace into a place where you feel this inner silence.

And don't try to force yourself to be calm or talk yourself into being calm.

Allow yourself to unfold to this silence and stillness within yourself.

Now also on Fridays, this is for a Friday's meditation, although you can listen to the meditations in any sequence.

You don't need to follow them in any order.

I always share on Fridays an herbal tea that can benefit you in a similar way as do the

meditation techniques.

And so you'll be guided through a meditation,

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