This is episode 1,697. Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Megley and I'm honored to introduce to you a brand new series we're exploring all week long.

For seven days, you will receive a different meditation technique that you can do as you meditate

as well as when you are in the most stressful times of your day.

That is the beauty of meditation techniques.

They are portable.

You can use them, whether you are on your meditation cushion or seated at your meditation chair

or whether you are in the midst of a stressful day.

So in today's episode, this is the very first episode of the series for the week.

And our focus for the whole week is a particular aspect of love.

And this series is part of an entire collection, a four-part collection, so a month-long

collection of love meditation techniques.

And so for this week, we launch into familial love, also known as Storje,

which is the Greek word for love that is familial,

that often unconditional love we have for family members,

the comfortable feeling we have with these people in our lives.

And as you go through the series,

we'll be following along with the wise words of wisdom

and often thought-provoking words of C.S. Lewis.

C.S. Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian.

He had very diverse talents.

He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge in England.

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