This is episode 1,089.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

And welcome to part three of our seven part series this week. We're exploring a series called Sunrise Meditation

Techniques and these are techniques you can take into your meditation as you greet each day.

And my special challenge for you this week is to wake up with the sunrise or even before the sunrise.

Wake up 5, 10, 15 minutes earlier than you usually do

and spend a few moments doing the techniques I offer each day in this

series and these will help you to focus your mind with intention as you go about your day.

And research shows that when you spend even a few minutes focusing on what you like your day to be like and

visualizing your day and thinking about the different challenges you might face that day and

how you might be able to maneuver those challenges or manage those challenges in a much better way, you usually get what you set your mind to.

So if you wake up in the morning and you start your day with intention and you define

that intention, then you're likely to pursue it throughout the day and get the results you seek.

So in today's episode, you're going to be guided using a breathing technique.

And when you use your breath combined with your intention, so your mind, breath, awareness,

synthesized, working together. This can make a big difference in how you

achieve whatever it is you want throughout the day. I'm Mary Meckley and I share a

different meditation technique every day here on the podcast and each technique is always customized around a

theme that we explore throughout a week so that you can really master a

particular quality in depth.

And that's what we're doing this week with starting your day, sunrise meditations.

So here is your technique. As you sit down to meditate and remember you don't have to

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