This is episode 2,150 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to day six of this series we are exploring this week about trust.

Having confidence in what's happening in the world, having confidence with what's happening

in your community and having confidence in yourself. In fact, your challenge this week has been to find something

positive about the world, about your

community and about yourself.

Every week you are issued a challenge that goes right along with the theme. So I wonder how is that coming along for you.

I hope that you are finding more positivity in the world. And that is important because when we're

living through such uncertain times with this global pandemic, there is a lot of mistrust. There's a lot of

speculation and the best thing you can do is to focus on what is good and what is positive happening in the world.

That may mean that before you go to bed every night, you think

about something you're grateful for that happened that day.

And when you wake up in the morning,

you think about the things that you might encounter

that are going to be stressful.

And you come up with a plan on how you're going to manage that stress.

You might think of doing a meditation technique such as a breathing technique, such as a breathing technique, or repeating the week's affirmation. In today's episode, you're going to be guided as you layer together all the different

meditation techniques into a meditation, and this is how I meditate

I layer the different techniques together.

The reason why meditation techniques are so useful is because they help to

transition you from whatever you were doing before you sat down to meditate to a state of stillness. And that state of

stillness can be pretty hard to achieve if you sit down and try to force the stillness or you sit down and you

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