You're listening to the Daily Meditation Podcast, episode 787.

Welcome.

I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.

I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different

meditation technique every day on the podcast and each technique is customized around a weekly

theme. So you get to explore a particular topic in depth and you get to experiment with a variety of different meditation techniques, one for each day of this episode customized around the weekly theme.

And I encourage you to be open-minded as you explore the meditation techniques because you never know what might support you the best.

You may surprise yourself.

I know for myself, I sure have surprised myself trying some techniques that actually worked great.

And before I had been a little bit hesitant to explore those techniques.

In particular, chakras and mudras, I always thought sounded just a little bit odd and a little bit out there for me.

And then I started to explore them and now those are some of my go-to meditation techniques

where I get instant results to calm my mind and body when I use those particular techniques.

Well today's episode you're going to be exploring a breathing technique. Now breathing techniques are probably the most

powerful techniques that you can do. Research has demonstrated that people can calm their mind

and body instantly with just three long deep inhales and

exhales through your nose. Well, as you're guided throughout this week's meditation series,

we're focusing on detoxing. And many people think of detoxing as, you know, you have all this gunk in you and you need to get it out.

You have all these toxins and you want to cleanse yourself.

Well, I'd like you to think of detox as a way to honor yourself a way to

accept yourself exactly as you are not to feel as though oh you're loaded down with

extra calories or pounds that you just, you know, you regret eating certain

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