Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I congratulate you for giving yourself permission to

slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different

meditation every day on the podcast and each meditation offers a customized

meditation technique focused around a specific topic that we explore

throughout the entire week.

So you get to meditate with a purpose where you're focusing on some aspect of your life for an entire week using different meditation techniques

to see what works best for you. In today's meditation you're going to be guided using a breathing technique.

This is for a Tuesday's meditation and every Tuesday I share a breathing technique and our theme for this week is

embracing change. It's all about accepting and embracing changes in your life.

And this can be difficult to do because for the most part,

we are pretty much creatures of habit.

So before I guide you in today's meditation,

I want to share with you some information about change and some ways to help you manage change.

And this is from an article in the Harvard Business Review talking about managing change one day at a time.

And it gives some tips about how to do this.

And one of the best ways to do this is to realize that nothing really

happens without a readiness to change. So you're not likely going to change until

you're ready to change. And for some some people that can mean hitting rock bottom but for yourself

maybe you don't want to wait until you hit rock bottom. So you can help yourself ease into a mindset where

you're going to embrace this change and that's what we're doing in this week's

meditation series. To help you do that it can be important to replace old

habits with new ones. So for example, an Alcoholics

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