Welcome to episode 2856 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you to day three of this series where exploring this week.

This week we have a theme that is important to everyone these days and that is regaining your mental focus.

In fact, you could consider yourself as reclaiming your mental focus because

it seems as though your time and your attention is at an all-time premium these days and

one of the most difficult things people tell me they have doing is focusing.

When you begin to focus your thoughts by releasing distractions, you tap into that beautiful

sense of clarity and this gives you more peace and ease as you go throughout your day.

So what you're doing for yourself this week by gaining mental clarity is going to help you

feel more relaxed and refreshed throughout your day. I want to share with you a challenge

for this week. I don't believe I shared the challenge in the very first episode,

so every week you have a special challenge that I encourage you to do every single day.

This is a way for you to have fun with your meditation ritual. Sometimes meditation can get a

little heavy, so having a daily challenge is a fun way to go a little more deeply with the week's

theme and to maybe stretch a little out of your comfort zone. So the challenge for this week

is to go on a freedom quest. Now a freedom quest is when you think about what is

stealing away your focus and I bet that you discover that most of your focus is robbed by small

things. Small little daily distractions that accumulate like dust, they settle within your mind

and research shows that most of the thoughts we think each day are negative. In fact 80% of the

thoughts we think each day are considered to be negative thoughts and a whopping more than 90%

of those thoughts are considered to be repetitive. So you could think about that for a moment.

You may go throughout your days repeating negative thoughts. So this is a week to

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