Welcome to episode 2842 of your daily meditation podcast. I'm Mary Mechley and

welcome to day three of this series. We're exploring this week. This week is all

about cultivating conscious relationships. Those people who will begin to

mean the most to you in your life. Those people who uplift you and maybe it's

someone who you would like to emulate. Maybe you're looking for a mentor or a

romantic partner or a certain type of friend and in today's episode you're

going to be guided in a breathing technique to help instill confidence in

yourself so that you can reach out to those people who you'd like to include

in your life and this can sometimes seem daunting. It's much easier to remain

where you are and to feel as though you're not sure if meeting different people

would improve your life in any way and so you may stay with a status quo.

Now you may be very happy and fortunate to have people in your life who enrich it.

But if you feel as though there's a certain part of you that's yearning for more

in a particular kind of relationship it may even be with work colleagues. You may

find that you're not able to express your truth. You may feel as though you're

stunted in your own personal growth because of relationships you're in and so

this week you are challenged to begin to reach out to and cultivate relationships

that are going to feed your soul in a particular way. You also have a unique

challenge this week. This is a challenge that is recommended from a fellow

meditator, Kristen Newbauer who lives in Washington D.C. who is a journalist for

Reuters and she started to write letters with a good friend, even two friends. She

communicates writing letters to them every week and she said this has changed her

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