This is Episode 2488 of your daily meditation podcast.

I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you to the final episode of the series we've been exploring this week.

If you are brand new here and you are landing here just listening to this episode as your first episode,

you are in the right place because every episode follows a theme but each episode offers a meditation technique, inspiration and a guided meditation that is unique.

So you can listen along through a series or just select whichever episode you choose to listen to.

If you've been along with us on this journey this week as you reclaim your joy, I want to let you know how much I honor you.

Showing up for yourself day in and day out and I've heard from many of you letting me know how much your meditation ritual has meant to you during this time of the coronavirus pandemic.

Many of you have reached out to let me know that you started meditating during the pandemic.

I'd love to hear from you. You can always reach out to me at Mary at sipandome.com or you can send me a direct message on my sip andome Instagram and I would love to connect with you.

Also be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single day every single day I create a fresh guided meditation every single week we explore a different theme.

And you might want to share these episodes with someone especially over this holiday season and the end of the year which can be so chaotic at times just when we want to feel most peaceful.

It's also the time when we have so much more going on in our lives or maybe you don't maybe you're feeling lonely and isolated this season.

Meditation is one of the most beautiful ways to support yourself whether or not you're feeling lonely or you feel you have so much to do too much in fact.

So here you are getting ready to meditate in the very last episode of a series.

I like to guide you through a review over your week. It's a reflection and I consider this to be one of the most important meditations in a series.

Because when you reflect back over different highlights from your week your victories as well as the times when you wish you would have done something differently or maybe you really struggled this week.

It's all good. Your lessons are just as valuable as your big wins.

So as you're guided through the meditation today I want to encourage you to perhaps step outside and meditate.

I think that meditating outside brings your meditation ritual to the next level even if it's cold where you live just bundle up.

If it's hot it's actually a hot day where I live in Florida maybe sit in the shade and wear light layers adjust yourself to accommodate what's happening outside instead of putting a barrier between yourself and the elements all that's happening in the natural world surrounding you.

Bring that into your ritual as much as you can. You could even do this as a walking meditation outside.

So as you settle yourself down straighten your spine to keep yourself alert and close your eyes ever so gently uplifting them.

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