This is episode 1,814.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley, and here you are.

It is the next to the last episode of our series we're exploring this week all about simplicity in your relationships.

And I wonder how you're doing. At the beginning of this series, I encouraged you to select someone

to focus on all week long and to create simplicity in your relationship

by listening to them and really hearing them. Listen and hear. And throughout the week, you discovered a different meditation

technique in each episode and insight to support you along the way on your simplicity

in relationships journey.

In this episode, you will be guided as you layer the different meditation techniques

you've explored into one meditation.

And this is the way that I meditate.

When I sit down to meditate,

I do several different meditation techniques.

And then when I begin to feel my mind and my body relax then I immerse myself in inner stillness I ease myself to this place

of silence and this is true meditation when you are allowing yourself to open up to this stillness.

It's difficult to be going about your busy day and then to sit down to meditate and expect yourself to instantly feel this state of peace and calm.

In fact, I hear many newcomers to meditation tell me they're just not cut out to meditate because

they sit down to meditate and they feel restless.

Their mind won't stop wandering or they're not really sure what to do while they're sitting there.

And this is how you should naturally feel when you haven't allowed yourself to transition

from whatever you were doing before you sat down to meditate,

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