Welcome to episode 3,201 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to

day three of this week's series. You are being guided with a samurai mindset for your modern life

this week. And if you are not subscribed I encourage you to do so. I'm offering you daily meditations to help with

that all-important consistency that gives you the results of more peace, energy, and clarity that meditation provides.

And showing up for yourself daily this week is part of your

challenge this week. Every week we focus on a challenge to have a little fun with the week's theme

and it also makes your meditation ritual a little lighter and more joyful.

Meditation can become a little heavy because it's such an introspective type of ritual. Well this week you are encouraged to focus on

discipline. Doing something mindful such as meditation as you're doing right here right now and also

including movement in your day. This was essential for the samurai. They always

daily had fierce discipline in regard to how they practice their warfare

skills and physical fitness.

Also, many people don't know this about the samurai,

but they spend a lot of time doing such rituals such as meditation.

Also, they painted, they wrote poetry,

they did the Japanese tea ceremony,

Japanese Ikebana, which is the flower arranging, and they did all of these

rituals because these rituals are all about interiorization, tuning into yourself, your highest self.

So they focused on mindfulness and movement every day and that's what I encourage you to do.

And this week make sure you focus on being more disciplined. So think about when you might do this

mindfulness, when you might do this movement, maybe you do them together, maybe you go

for a walk and then you sit down and meditate. Maybe you work out and then

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