Welcome to episode 2645 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you back to our series.

We're exploring this week. This week you are exploring the theme of healing emotional pain and trauma.

This is a series by popular request from your fellow meditators and in today's episode you're going to be guided as you focus on allowing your pain being fully present with yourself as you manage emotional pain.

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I have heard from several of you letting me know that at first when you started listening to this series you thought,

hmm, I've had a pretty happy childhood and I don't know if I'm going to gain much value in this week's series. Well, as you meditate it, you realize that there was a certain thread that seemed to run through your childhood and carry through your life that needed some resolution.

Because nothing is perfect and you may have experienced certain instances that included emotional pain that you may still carry with you.

So those of you who reached out to me, let me know that this has been a very enlightening series.

So I hope you are enjoying your quest every week. You have a daily challenge. So you go on a quest. You are invited to go on a daily safety quest where every day you do one thing to help yourself feel safe.

To where you feel this safety within your body, we hold on to pain and trauma within our bodies. So this week is about letting go and loosening up that pain and working with it.

And that's what you'll be doing in today's episode.

Some ways to release pain and to help yourself feel safe, include journaling, exercising, doing a nice, long stretch, maybe doing yoga before you sit down to meditate, taking a warm bath, maybe even using a weighted blanket, whatever helps you to feel safe and secure.

I encourage you to do every day this week.

Now, as you settle yourself down to meditate, make sure you make yourself nice and comfortable. And as you close your eyes, experience a subtle shift upwards in your consciousness as you gently elevate your eyes upwards.

As if you're looking across at a mountain chain, watching the sunset behind the mountains.

Straighten your spine to help yourself keep alert.

You are invited to do what I know for many of you is one of your favorite techniques. And that is a mudra.

A mudra is a way you position your hands and fingers that stimulates a corresponding region of your brain.

The kaputa mudra is the mudra for this week to do it is simple.

You cup your hands together, touching your fingers and your thumbs together, creating space between your palms, as though you're holding something in your hands, holding this up at your chest or placing this down in your lap as you meditate.

Holding it for as long as you feel comfortable doing so.

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