This is Episode 2248 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you to the final episode of our series on living your inner truth, living authentically.

And this week you have had a challenge as you went on a compassion quest.

How did your challenge go this week? Did you allow yourself patience and compassion as you tapped into your intuition?

It's not always easy to listen to your intuition. That voice in your head can be judgmental.

In fact, we can become our own worst critics.

I hope that through this week's series you've been able to tap into your intuition and listen to your inner truth.

In today's episode you're going to be guided as you explore how this week's series may have boosted your confidence a little.

I hear from so many of you how meditation has helped you to become more confident.

One way meditation helps you to feel more self-assured is because when you meditate you are allowing yourself to be unconditional.

So you're not judging yourself. There's no shame, no blame. You're allowing yourself to unfold to whatever's happening in your life at the moment and to manage your emotions in a better way which makes you feel more confident about yourself.

One of your fellow meditators reached out to me recently to let me know how much meditation had changed her life.

She said that she has for most of her life had a really unhealthy relationship with food. In fact she said she was embarrassed to reach out to me about it.

But she wanted me to know how much meditation had given her confidence to change her relationship with food.

She says that for most of her life she thought of food constantly. She loved food and she would not just eat anything.

She would prepare exotic meals but she would eat a lot too much and her whole health and her weight suffered.

She had tried many different modalities to help her lose weight but she found that throughout her day she was constantly criticizing herself and judging herself.

Even when she would sit down to eat a gorgeous meal she had just prepared because she loves cooking and she's a great cook.

She would be criticizing how much she was eating, how much time she spent thinking about food.

She said that throughout her day she was constantly criticizing herself.

Maybe you do this too. Is there something about your life that causes you to view yourself conditionally?

If you're not a certain way then you don't measure up to your own expectations.

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