This is episode 1,491.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I wish you a happy 4th of July. A holiday of Independence we are celebrating here in the United States

where I live. Wherever you happen to be, know that you are creating tremendous inner independence

each time you sit down to meditate.

In today's episode, you will be creating

this independence in the form of harmony for yourself.

Our theme we're exploring this week is ambition.

And as you pursue your ambitions and your goals, you may think that.

Meditation may just slow you down.

In fact, this brings to mind a time where I was flying from Los Angeles to Florida

and I was sitting next to a comedian and this comedian was telling me all the things he does to energize and get in his zone before he performs on stage.

And I asked him if he had ever meditated and he told me that he could never meditate because he needs to keep his energy high. And I was thinking that in fact meditation helps you to do just that. If you don't meditate or have a form of relaxation,

then what happens is when you are in this high state it's not sustainable.

So at some point you need to come back to more of an equilibrium with your emotions and this can feel

like you're crashing and burning and it can be kind of like an emotional roller coaster

where you feel fatigued just from this process of these extreme highs and extreme lows.

Now you know that if you've ever been extremely angry or depressed or upset where your emotions have been to the extreme bringing you downward,

it's harder to crawl out of that hole once you get there.

So if you can think of harmonizing your emotions,

where you put a filter on your emotions with a thought of asking

yourself how you can come back to your center. Now this doesn't mean that you should never

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