Welcome to episode 1,849 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and here you are getting ready to give yourself a little more peace, energy, and clarity

as you give yourself permission to slow down and connect to that best part of who you are.

In today's episode, you are going to be guided as you layer the meditation techniques

we've explored this week in the theme of stress relief in relationships.

Relationships cause the most stress in our lives.

And this is true for most people for you. You might have a lot of physical stress or stress from your job, but that probably involves a relationship, if it is work-related, and even

when you experience physical stress, it can be related to stress in relationships

especially in regard to your heart health. So if you want to improve your heart health, improve your relationships.

At the beginning of this series, I recommended that you focus on one relationship this whole week. This could be a relationship

you are currently in, whether it's romantic, with a friend, a neighbor, a work

colleague, a sibling, a child, a relationship that causes you stress.

It could even be a relationship with someone in your past.

They may not even be living any longer.

But that relationship could still cause you stress when you think about it, and you may even

have stress triggers that remind you of stress you experienced in the past in a particular relationship.

So this is the week to lay that stress to rest, or at least to be able to manage it,

much better and to become aware of it so that you can do something with that

stress. In the episode today as you layer together the different meditation techniques, I thought that I would share

with you how I do this in my own life.

So I thought I'd give you a snapshot of a real life situation where I

layered together the different techniques from this week to manage a

stressful relationship. Now this wasn't in regard to a relationship I've had

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