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Good morning, friends, and welcome to Wake Me Up.

The podcast, Where Morning People Are Made.

And as always, I'm Tyler, your host.

We're back today for a meditation on this week's theme of clearing the mind.

If you're still in bed, then I'd recommend going back to yesterday's Wake Up and Stretch

episode which will get you up and going and then you can come back to this episode

to meditate. Recent studies show that even a single 10 minute meditation like this can help

reduce anxiety and create a calmer mind. So we're going to get right to it. One thing that's often misunderstood

about meditation is that people think they're doing it wrong if their mind isn't

perfectly clear and quiet.

I promise you're not doing it wrong if your mind is running while you meditate.

In fact, you're doing it exactly right.

It's a practice. Meditation is a practice. you're doing it exactly right.

It's a practice.

Meditation is about training the mind

to be more still and quiet.

So don't stress if you find your mind running.

You're not doing anything wrong.

When you do notice that, just acknowledge whatever your mind was running about and bring yourself

back to the center of focus, be it the breath, a mantra, a visualization, whatever. And by repeating

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