This is episode 913. 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.

I'm Mary Meckley and I share a different meditation technique every single day on the

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

long experimenting with different meditation techniques.

Well, our theme this week is

how to manage negative thoughts, negative thoughts such as depression, anxiety, and fear.

And you'll discover a meditation affirmation that you can use to help you release negative thoughts. Now if you listen to the very first episode of

this series which was episode 912 you would have heard me share with you a three-part formula to help you manage negative thoughts.

Now, managing negative thoughts is by far

the biggest challenge most meditators face when they sit down to meditate and is also one of the

biggest challenges people face in general when they go about their life.

So that may have brought you here to this series.

So you're going to learn an affirmation today so that you can experience more gratitude in your life.

And when you experience more open and receptive. So back to the three-part formula that I mentioned that I

shared in yesterday's episode, I'm shared with you a way to release a negative thought by identifying the kind of thought you're

experiencing.

And when you become aware of the kind of thought

you're experiencing that's causing this negative thinking.

Think about where it came from, what triggered it.

You may have had this thought for years and it may take a little while for you to even

go back and remember what caused this thought. But this is key in releasing it. You can do all the techniques you want,

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