Welcome to episode 2827 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Mechley, and I welcome you to day two of this series.

You're being guided through this week.

This week is all about trusting yourself.

This happens to be the third week as we launch into a brand new year.

And you may find that despite your best intentions,

those goals and new year's resolutions that you may have set at the beginning of the year

may be slipping away, maybe you're noticing self-doubt and fear-creepen.

So this is a week for you to open up to the abundance within you and to trust yourself.

You have a special challenge this week as you do in every series

and your challenge is to begin to notice when you're experiencing self-doubt and fear

and to question it.

Question, if it's true, many times you will find that there is no real truth

in what you may fear or in what you are experiencing as self-doubt.

So as you question your fears and yourself doubt,

think about possibilities around you.

When you begin to open up to what could happen,

what your potential may be, then you begin to steer yourself in the direction of your hopes and dreams.

In today's episode, you're going to use a very popular meditation technique

that we do in day two of every series.

And that is the affirmation.

And affirmation is simply a positive statement that you repeat.

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