Welcome to episode 2,954 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Mechley and I'm honored. You are here.

Spending a little time giving yourself more peace, energy and clarity.

In today's episode, I'm going to guide you with a little insight about our theme for the week.

The theme is stress inoculation and you have the challenge this week to notice what causes you stress and to come up with ways to manage that stress before it even happens.

You're going to be guided in a meditation with a breathing technique.

And breathing techniques are one of the fastest ways to instantly calm your mind and body.

So for your insight, I want to share with you about how stress inoculation can work for you.

And this is from an article called The Human Condition on Healing Growth and Holiness.

And it's an article called Stress Inoculation Training, what it is, how it works and benefits.

I invite you to settle yourself down now as you listen to the insight so that you can practice what I'm sharing with you.

As you sit up straight, close your eyes and gently elevate your eyes and feel a subtle shift upward in your mood.

Now conceptualize the kind of stress you are experiencing in your life.

It could be a major stressor. It could be a type of stress you experience chronically day in and day out and you feel it wearing you down.

Notice where you hold this kind of stress in your body and name the feelings that arise.

Notice what may have triggered this stress.

Now reflect on your safe space that you created in the yesterday's episode.

Some place where you feel safe, some place that inspires you, perhaps it's out in nature, maybe it's in your meditation space.

When you feel the stress, place yourself in this safe space.

Now visualize yourself encountering this stress and I'll guide you through a breathing technique.

This is a technique that you can do when you're experiencing this kind of stress.

This is your stress training grounds.

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