Welcome to episode 3,109 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome

you to our series we're exploring this week. This is day three of our series breakthrough to thrive.

And you have a special challenge this week. Every week you are issued a challenge that goes

right along with the week's theme and this is a way for you to tune into the week's theme as you go about your day.

So it takes your meditation off your meditation

cushion into your daily life.

So your challenge for this week

as you go through your breakthrough

and you begin to thrive with your fresh new start

is to commit to a daily presence challenge where you practice presence or mindfulness

for a few minutes every day and if you could do this twice a day,

that would be even better.

And what this allows you to do

is to focus on the present moment and this helps you to let go of the past and the future

as you focus on the present moment.

And this is really important to do as you experience any kind of anxiety or maybe you're

having trouble sleeping or whatever it is,

when you allow yourself to have mindfulness moments,

you're able to process your emotions much better because you tune into your emotional

state.

So as you settle your thoughts down and become mindful of the present moment, notice your

breath.

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