You are listening to episode 807.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I congratulate you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.

I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation guide who shares a different meditation technique

every single day on the podcast and each technique is customized around a weekly theme.

So you get to explore a particular topic in depth so you can really master it as best as you can throughout the week

using different meditation techniques along the way to see what might work best for you.

And in today's episode, we launch into a brand new series.

And I'll mention that all the different meditations, all the techniques and the references

and resources I share in this week's series can be found at my website at zip and ome.com that's sip am and a endom dot com and

and there you'll find an invitation to a free private Facebook group that you can join and

you'll connect with meditators from around the world who listen to the meditations

just like you do.

We do monthly challenges together, customized around the theme of the week.

And you can also send me a message on my public Sippenome Facebook page and just request to be added and I'll gladly add you to our free

Facebook group. Well today I want to introduce our theme for this seven-part week-long meditation series and the theme is managing negative people.

So every day this week we'll expect managing negative people.

So every day this week we'll explore different tips and techniques on how to do that.

And as you go throughout this week focus on not only the people in your life or who

you encounter in general who may bring you down but focus on how well you are doing for even taking

on how well you are doing for even taking part in this series to learn ways that you can gracefully manage people who may zap your energy, who may bring you down, who may feel as

though they suck the life force right out of you.

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