This is episode 1,690. Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for being here as you give

yourself permission to slow down. In today's episode, we launch into a brand new meditation series.

We'll explore all week long.

And the theme for this week's series is clarity.

If you've been listening to the meditations from the beginning of the year up until today,

you will have noticed we have been giving you a fresh start as you begin a brand new year.

And each series we've explored so far this month of January has been all about a fresh start starting over a new beginning

and you picked a word of the year and you also picked a virtue to focus on now if you're just're just joining us, no worries. You can always go back

and listen to the episodes. They don't necessarily follow any sequence, but they do follow a certain

theme. So you can really listen to any episode at any time. And you'll notice that I share a different meditation technique every day and that the technique

is always customized around the week's theme.

And these themes are all about how you manage your emotions, how you manage your moods.

So as you explore clarity, I encourage you to keep in mind what we've already explored

throughout this month.

And as I mentioned, if you're brand new, no worries at all.

You are right where you want to be.

As you think about clarity, I am going to share with you throughout this week about how to improve your brain's health.

And I'll be sharing with you ways you can reduce the impact of the digital age we are in

with the internet and all the devices that you probably rely on just

like I do to get through your day. In fact, I know you do because you are here listening

to this podcast and so you are on a device of some kind. And these devices are fantastic.

But there is some research showing that some of the devices in the way we use our devices

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