Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different meditation technique every day customized around our weekly theme.

And in today's episode, which is episode 630, you're going to be guided in a meditation around the theme of resilience.

Every day this week, we've explored a different meditation technique to help you find

your own inner strength for resilience.

And it happens to be a Friday for this meditation and the theme for the day every Friday,

I call it SIP and Om Friday.

I share a meditation where I combine some of the meditation techniques we've explored

throughout the week into a meditation for you so you can see how different meditation techniques

are layered together. And then I share an herbal tea. And I like to share an herb in a similar way as I share a meditation technique

because herbs can benefit you and support you. They work very nicely. You want to make sure,

of course, that the herb is the right herb for you because herbs are very powerful and even a gentle herb such as

for myself I remember having a little reaction when I sipped chamomile tea if I sip it on an

empty stomach it gives me a stomach ache so you want to make sure that any herbs you take aren't interfering

with medications you may be on or different conditions or allergies that you may personally have.

So make sure you do your research and check with your physician to make sure that different herbs

are actually going to support

you.

But given that information, I don't want you to be afraid of the herbs.

I want you to realize that there are so many incredible herbs out there and most of us just

use what's in our kitchen spice cabinets for cooking when the herbs can really be healing

in many ways in fact many studies show that herbs can often be as beneficial as some anxiety

medications even better than some sleep aids, and other medications that treat

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