Welcome to Episode 2830 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Mechley and

welcome back to the series we're exploring this week. This week the theme is all

about trusting yourself and in today's episode you're going to be guided to

feel more grounded in who you are. In this week's series you've been exploring how, fear,

and doubt can creep in and sabotage how you feel about yourself. So you begin to lose trust

in your instincts and you begin to push aside your intuition. So one of the most powerful ways

to begin to trust yourself is to tune into what excites you about life, your passions. This is where

you will find your purpose and to begin to pursue your purpose. And this is the third week of this

brand new year as you begin a new journey. And so as you begin with New Year's resolutions

at the beginning of the year and I invited you to select a word to represent your year,

which you aspire to this year. And as you are excited and there's a fresh new year ahead of you,

you can begin to notice your confidence begin to wane. You can begin to second guess

what you hope to achieve. You can begin to feel doubtful about your goals and your purpose.

To help you overcome this you have a challenge this week as you do in every series.

Your challenge is to begin to notice those doubts and fears and to question their validity.

As we are midweek through this week's theme to trust yourself, you may be surprised by

what you've noticed about your thoughts. You may be surprised that you are actually thinking

several thoughts that cause you to doubt yourself. These are thoughts that may be so pervasive

in your life that you may not have given them much consideration before. This is your week to begin

to laterest those doubts and fears that seem to plague you. So as you get ready to settle yourself

down to meditate, I invite you to think about your most pervasive. Try to get across and slice it

just wide of the post. How's they done enough? Can they pull it out the bag? Does the ref have a clue

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