This is Episode 1153. Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down.

And when you slow down, you tap into the best part of who you are.

I'm Mary Mechley. I share a different meditation technique every day here on the podcast.

And the techniques are always customized around the theme we explore in depth for a week.

And our theme this week is how to snap out of a bad mode.

And in yesterday's episode you discovered the scientific evidence on how slowing down does indeed help you to tap into your higher brain functioning.

And in today's episode you're going to discover a way to help you conquer fatigue.

There's a lot of research out there showing how lack of sleep or poor quality sleep contributes of course to fatigue, depression, illness, poor productivity.

You name it. In fact, fatigue or lack of sleep has been a culprit in several of the more recent ecological disasters such as the nuclear accidents at Chernobyl and five mile island.

Recent studies show Fukushima. The engineers and employees there were incredibly fatigued working long hours and doing this for extended periods of time.

And this it was determined contributed to these horrendous accidents as well as the Exxon Valdez oil spill again fatigue lack of sleep was one of the culprits.

So what about in your own life? How has fatigue contributed to your bad mood?

When you consider the kind of sleep and the quality of sleep you get on a regular basis you might want to also consider tracking your sleep.

Do it for about two weeks and see if there are some patterns. And when you notice that you're up reading your messages, googling right before you go to sleep watching the news your quality of sleep may not be the greatest especially exposure to the blue light from these devices.

Or think about how working till all hours of the day and night may contribute to stress and no release from feeling as though you have to keep going and going and working and being productive.

Allow yourself times to relax and meditation of course is one of the best ways to do that as is movement exercise moving your body if you can give yourself movement every day and meditation every day.

I think that these two habits can become incredibly valuable to your whole life as well as to helping to improve your sleep.

So for the technique today that you can do as you meditate I have a mudra to share with you that can help you conquer fatigue.

This is a powerful mudra if you're not really sure what a mudra is I challenge you to try something new today as you meditate a mudra is a way you hold your hands and you activate a corresponding region in your brain when you do this.

And for the mudra today is called the shiva linga mudra and this is a mudra that helps you to reduce tension and fatigue especially chronic fatigue.

And if you don't choose to do the mudra you can still do the visualization portion that I'll be sharing with you.

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