This is episode 1,778.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meggley and here you are.

Getting ready to show up for yourself as you get ready to meditate today.

Or maybe you're simply going to do the meditation technique I share with you in each episode.

Maybe you do these techniques as you wash your dishes or as you go about your day, maybe as you commute to work.

It's all good. We all start our meditation journey somewhere. Honor where you are on this journey.

Well, we are midweek through our mental cleanse theme this week.

You have discovered insight and a meditation technique uniquely customized for giving yourself a mental

cleanse. In today's episode you will honor yourself and sometimes that can be the hardest thing of all to do.

Because it's much easier to be distracted or stressed or. Or. or in emotional turmoil. It keeps you occupied. It can keep you away from what may truly matter most in your life, and that is you showing up

authentically day in, day out.

That can be the hardest part of life.

In fact, you may do yoga and I remember having a yoga teacher who would tell us that the hardest pose of all to do, out of all the

postures, out of all the myriad ways you can twist and turn and stretch your body, doing a

yoga assana, the hardest pose is to stand on your own two feet, to stand balanced firmly on your own two feet. In yoga class you may notice that people will

do these very difficult poses, but yet you may notice that they seem agitated in life, or maybe they have some ego as they do these poses.

They have this pride, not in a way that they feel good about what they're doing and they

may have worked hard to do what they're doing but even a sense of

competitiveness with other people in the class. And I always find this interesting when I'm at a

yoga or meditation retreat.

Inevitably, it seems there will be people there,

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