This is episode 918. Welcome to your daily guided meditation. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm so honored to be sharing with you today the final

meditation of this seven-part series to manage negative thoughts and we always end each

meditation series with a nice walking meditation. This allows you to take your meditation ritual off your cushion and into your everyday life into the world around you.

This is so important because you're likely

to experience negative thoughts, maybe not so much while you're meditating,

although they do creep in when you're meditating as well.

But you're likely to have most of your negative thoughts

when you're out in the world when you are managing the people around you,

those people who seem to zap your energy,

or when you see something happening in your world that upset you.

Even walking around seeing litter can put you in a bad mood. You can feel like, oh, what's the

point? No one seems to care. They just trash this area and you can start to lose hope and hope is one of your most important qualities.

So as you do today's walking meditation,

bring in everything you learned in this week's meditation series.

Apply it.

That's the part of the three-part formula that I shared with you earlier in the week.

So throughout this series you've discovered how to manage your mindset, how to become mindful and have clarity about the negative thoughts that you keep

repeating day in and day out, where they come from.

And then we did a skill set check

on your negative thoughts.

Is there something new that you need to learn about your thoughts?

Do you need a little more information to make sure that the thoughts you're thinking

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