This is episode 1,557.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and you are doing a very good thing for yourself as you get ready to meditate in today's episode.

You're going to discover a breathing technique for joy or for courage

or for confidence or for whatever quality you want to cultivate within yourself.

This is a yoga breathing technique called the Joy breath, the Breath of Joy.

And if you've been following this series this week, you have discovered a different yoga breathing

technique in each episode so there are seven now right here for you to listen to anytime anywhere to help you relax.

This is our relaxation breathing technique series and this is the final episode.

Remember these series don't follow in any order so you can listen to the episodes in any order you want. For the final episode in every

series I always encourage you to take your meditation ritual outside.

This is a way for you to reward yourself for following along the series all week long and when you meditate outside

it really takes your ritual to the next level. If you haven't done so, try it. And if you'd like to do

a walking meditation where you listen to the meditation and you walk.

And you may pass people, you may hear sounds and you're moving,

and that's all good because you're taking your ritual off your meditation cushion or chair into your day-to-day life

where you're most likely to encounter stress triggers. So this allows you to apply what you practice as you sit to meditate and

bring these skills and try them out in your everyday life.

This is the ultimate way to challenge yourself, to remain calm

even when you're not able to control what's going on around you.

So here is your breathing technique. Now if you can't get outside to sit and

meditate or to walk, go ahead and sit down in your regular meditation space, but I encourage you to open up a window or door if you can do that.

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