This is episode 2,164 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you back to our series.

We're exploring this week all about self-care.

You may feel like you've been neglecting yourself these days.

When you're going through a pandemic it's pretty distracting and with all the

uncertainty out there you can feel as though you're in a time warp. In today's

episode you are going to be guided.

Combining all the meditation techniques you've explored this week into a self-care meditation. Every single day you've explored a different

technique. When I meditate I layer techniques together. I so rarely sit down and instantly I'm transported to peace and calm.

Usually I sit down to meditate and I'm still thinking about something that happened that day or something I need to do.

And so I do several techniques, the affirmation of breathing technique. I usually do

a mudra, I focus on a chakra, I do a visualization, I do everything I share with you every day and that helps to transition me from all

those outside distractions to more interior inner peace.

And that is the beauty of techniques.

Remember, you can use these techniques even when you're not seated meditating. Use them during the most stressful

times of your day. If you would like the full half hour guided meditations, you are invited to try the SIP and OOM meditation app for seven days free. There you can meditate for 30 minutes every day.

You can meditate for as long as 30 minutes or as little as 30 minutes. It's up to you.

The way the meditations are structured, there's a time stamp where the meditation begins.

You're guided through the technique,

you're guided through a full body relaxation,

and then you're guided through a meditation so you can be guided through all of those

sequences or you can simply maybe do a full body relaxation that day or just the technique that day. You

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