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Welcome to episode 1,832 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Mechley and I honor you for giving your self permission to slow down, to connect

to the best part of who you are.

We are in the third episode of a seven-part series we're exploring this week and our theme

for the week is all about trusting yourself and in today's episode you are going to discover

a breathing technique to help you release doubt and as you do this breathing technique,

pay close attention to a sense of trusting a quality about yourself that's important

to you.

Think of a value or a virtue that you feel is an essential part of who you are.

For example, you may have a virtue of honesty and so when you are working, if you notice

yourself having the tendency to maybe skip over things a little bit sometimes to where

you might take a shortcut when you do things, not doing things so thoroughly or leaving

work before your work is really done or if you're in a relationship and your partner

asks you your honest opinion about something and you don't really tell them the full truth.

These are instances that take away from trusting yourself and so one way you can hold true

to your virtues, one way to build some structure around protecting your virtues is similar

to what you explored in yesterday's episode in regard to boundaries.

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