This is episode 1,898 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I'm honored you are here giving yourself a little more peace, energy and clarity.

In today's episode, you are going to be guided as you layer the different meditation techniques we've explored throughout this week's series

on mental clarity.

All week long you've discovered meditation techniques and tips to help you gain more mental focus and clarity.

So today we'll be layering them together.

In fact, when I meditate, I layer the techniques together. Most long-time meditators I know do the same

where we repeat an affirmation or a focus for the meditation session

and we do a breathing technique. I also include mud

moudras or a chakra focus. And sometimes I do all of these together,

as I'll be sharing with you today but I always do at least two techniques.

Usually that is a breathing technique and an affirmation when I meditate.

And I'll mention that these are techniques that you can do off your meditation cushion or chair.

You can do these techniques any time throughout your day.

So when you are feeling a little stressed or tense or tired, or just maybe even bored. You could do a meditation technique to

energize you, to calm you, and of course to give you that sense of clarity.

I enjoyed recording this series for you, as I mentioned earlier in the series, I took a vacation with my family to

Greece and I'm back now and I sure did these breathing techniques as I was flying as I was

sightseeing as I was trying to sleep, especially the very final night in Mikanos,

there was a wild party going on right next to us. We were staying at an Airbnb house,

but there was another house down the, not so much of a cliff, but an incline right below us and the noise just traveled upward and it

wasn't a situation where we could go out and ask the people to please be quiet. We would have had to literally

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