Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm excited to share with you a

brand new theme. This is a special theme that I've been working on myself and that is the

art of listening, deepening connection through presence.

So this is a seven day meditation series dedicated to enhancing your listening skills and cultivating

deeper connections in your life when you do so. In this series, you will explore the transformative power of listening,

but listening in a certain way.

You'll be listening with intention and presence.

And as you do so, you'll be learning to connect more deeply with others and yourself.

So each day of this series you will be guided with insight about the art of listening and then you're guided in a meditation practice designed to help you become a more attentive and

empathetic listener and this is going to help you foster stronger

relationships and a greater sense of connection with others and again

with yourself.

And I want to mention how listening is so much more than just hearing words.

It's about you being fully present and open-hearted.

It's a way you create space for others to be heard and understood.

And when you allow yourself to listen to others and they know when you're really

listening to them or not, they feel valued and honored.

And even if you're distracted by something and you're not really listening to someone,

but you mean them no harm,

when people feel you're not listening to them,

they can easily feel disrespected

even though you were simply tired or distracted. So listening is truly an art and one of the reasons why

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