Welcome to episode 2001 of your daily meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I

welcome you midweek as I record this and I don't think I'd really even know what day of the week it is if I didn't do a different

meditation technique each day of the week that I share with you here every day on the

podcast because I find my regular rhythm for the week is disrupted as I know it is for you as well as we

continue to be in shutdown mode due to the COVID-19 coronavirus.

How are you doing?

I congratulate you for being here

because I know there's a lot going on and even to find the time to sit down and meditate or do something more introspective is difficult when your emotions are being pulled out in all different directions.

And that is why this week we are exploring how to tame your emotions, how to use these meditation techniques as weapons in the battle to manage stress during such

an extenuating circumstance that we find ourselves in. And so we're following along with Sun Sioux's classic book, The Art of War, that is followed to this day by politicians and leaders, business leaders, including military strategists.

And I did find that there is actually an entire website

dedicated to his book in applying his principles to your mental and emotional

health and I actually didn't write down that website, but you could probably Google it, so his techniques are used as well to battle your own forces, those stresses and the anxiety and all the uncertainty and fear

we are experiencing.

Now I also want to mention the thought just occurred to me so I will mention it that Sunsu was a Chinese general, military strategist, a writer, and a philosopher who lived in ancient China. He was a general in the sixth century B.C. he is attributed as the author of The Art of War.

And I'm sharing this with you in a time

where we are experiencing the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, which we believe originated in China.

But that is not why I chose his book to follow this week. I came across his book as a book I selected for my sons to give to them for Easter.

My sons to give to them for Easter. And I also gave them the book of which I also created a series from,

and that is from Miamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings. One of my favorite books. I spent

over five years in Japan, so I'm a big fan of that book and I studied a lot of the arts over there and for

that reason I selected these two books to give to my sons but I was flipping

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