Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Mechley, and I welcome you as you continue

along with the theme we're exploring this week. This week is all about cultivating a sense

of inner joy. In today's episode, you're going to be guided in a meditation to feel

more grounded. In yesterday's episode, you discovered how one of the best ways to feel a

deep sense of inner joy is to first feel peace. So you'll be guided as you cultivate feeling more

at peace within yourself. And this is going to lead to feeling a sense of joy. It's almost

impossible to feel joy when you don't feel grounded. When you feel like things are out of control

and maybe you feel stuck. So as you're guided in today's meditation, I invite you to perhaps use

an anchor of some sort as you meditate. That could include, for myself, I use a rock from a river

where I received my meditation teacher training. My meditation teacher actually gave me this

rock. It's from the Yuba River in Northern California in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. And this

helps me to feel really grounded. For you, you might feel grounded by having a photo of a loved one

or maybe there's a certain meditation cushion or location where you like to meditate. And this

helps you to feel grounded. So you're going to ground yourself then you'll be guided to experience

more peace and finally, inner joy. So settle yourself down and make sure you're nice and comfortable

as always. Pause for a moment and look around your meditation space.

Notice what helps you to feel grounded right where you are.

Now close your eyes and feel really connected to where you're seated.

Feel the ground supporting you.

Begin to tune in to how you're feeling today. Name your emotional state.

Begin to inhale and exhale through your nose at your own pace.

Gently elevate your eyes upwards and feel your mood begin to shift upward.

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