This is episode 1,846 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to our stress relief meditation series this week. In this week's series the focus is

the focus is the

with an emphasis on managing stress in relationships

because relationship stress is the most common form of stress.

So who you surround yourself with matters.

Sometimes we don't always have a choice in who we spend time with.

So in this week's series you're discovering a different meditation technique every day to help you manage stress.

And in today's episode, I'm going to share with you a mindfulness meditation technique that involves

your breath and it helps you to let go of being judgmental.

And I want to share with you from the book

I'm following along with in this week's series called the High Conflict Couple, a

dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intim intimacy, and validation by Alan E. Frisetti.

And this is a book that is focused primarily on relationship, stress, and intimate relationships.

But the techniques I'm sharing with you from have never spoken with

any relationship, even with someone you maybe have never spoken with before.

In particular, today's judgment meditation technique can help you even with those people

who you simply see because we don't really have to have a conversation

with someone in order to judge them.

We can simply look at someone and make a judgment. And I want to share with you

from page 21 of the book. This is from the chapter getting to a balanced self describing and not judging.

There are many ways to orient your attention in a difficult or

conflictual situation. You can interpret a situation, judge it, numb out, or run away from it.

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