This is episode 1,648. Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for

showing up for yourself today as you get ready to meditate. I know that getting started,

meditating or simply sitting down to do it, is the hardest part. Once

you're settled into your ritual, it becomes easier and easier. Today, we launch into a brand

new meditation series where we explore a topic all week long.

The topic we're exploring throughout this month, this is a month-long focus with a theme on

peace, is broken down into different aspects of peace we're exploring each week. In last week's series,

we explored a worry fast, releasing worry so that you can finally have some peace. Well, in

this week's series, you will be exploring inner peace, specifically a sense of freedom with peace.

When you have a sense of heaviness from stress, overwhelm, from difficulties and challenges in your life, you can feel so burdened down

that you may wonder where your inner peace is if you'll ever recapture it again.

And in this series, you're going to explore that peace is always within you.

You will be guided with different meditation techniques, a different one each day,

to tap into that inner peace that's there within you.

What I often notice with meditators, especially people who are new to meditation, is that they'll sit down and, in fact, I myself, was like this for a couple years, in fact.

I wondered when I was going to start feeling peace.

I would calm my body and my mind, and I would be waiting.

I was thinking that something would be happening to me

because here I was.

I took the time to sit down and learn about meditation

and to start doing it.

And I didn't always feel peace. So I must be doing something wrong because it just wasn't

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