You are listening to the daily meditation podcast, episode 52.

Meditation isn't supposed to disrupt your day. It's supposed to be a part of it.

The Daily Meditation Podcast features techniques for you to use throughout your day to be

calmer and more effective. Please welcome your host Mary Meckley and I want to let you know that I really

honor you for doing this for yourself. I know that meditation is kind of like exercise. It's one of

those things where it's hard to get yourself going. It's hard to get yourself there.

And I guarantee you that if you stick with meditation

for the first few minutes it will become easier and you'll start to really enjoy it just like exercise.

The first five minutes can be the toughest.

Today's episode, you're going to be exploring how to use your breath in a powerful yet simple way

to help you reduce stress. In fact this breathing technique helps you manage how you respond to stress.

And this entire week of episodes is a special stress relief series.

So every day for a week you get to explore different meditation techniques to help you manage

your response to stress. So this series begins with episode 50 and ends with

episode 56 and I encourage you to head over to W. W. SIP, SIP and OOM,

com to pick up your weekly slowdown guide because on that guide I leave all kinds of meditation techniques that we've used this week.

So every technique we've used this week is on the weekly slowdown guide.

You can put it in a meditation binder in your meditation spot and that way you'll always

know what to do when you sit down to meditate and you want to reduce stress.

You can just pull out your stress relief series weekly slowdown guide and you'll be all set.

And while you're there you can pick up a free meditation bundle.

And in that bundle is a very important meditation technique in and of itself. It's a meditation journal and

...