This is episode 1,216 of the Daily Meditation podcast.

I am Mary Meckley and I'm honored you are here to give yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. That's the part of you

that overwhelmed distractions and stress may conceal. Meditation allows you to tap back into your true inner nature, your peace,

your energy, and clarity. And those qualities are always there they are there within you you just need

to draw them out and the best way to do that so research shows more and more

often these days is by meditating, sitting in stillness.

And I welcome you to a brand new series we're launching into this week all about confidence,

believing in yourself, feeling as though you are enough. And I want to share with you

a few different definitions of confidence. Confidence can be the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something.

So you can feel confidence in someone or something outside of yourself.

You can also feel confident by the state of feeling certain about the truth of something.

Again, this has to do with something outside yourself.

The third definition of confidence I came across has to do with the way I'd like you to explore

confidence throughout this week's seven-part series, and that is confidence as a feeling of

self-assurance arising from one's appreciation of one's own abilities or qualities.

And again, your own abilities and your qualities are usually concealed by distractions,

stress, and overwhelm.

So throughout this week, you are going to discover a different meditation technique in each episode

to help you draw out your inner qualities where you feel most assured and confident about.

And as you go throughout this series, I have a little challenge for you.

I challenge you each day to listen to your heart.

Now, many times, we might listen to other people.

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