This is episode 1792.

Welcome to the Daily Guided Meditation.

How are you doing today?

I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you as you join us towards the

tail end of our Simplify series. In each episode this week you are discovering a meditation technique

and insight to help you simplify your life. You may notice my voice is a little horse. I've been

under the weather a little bit this week so you might hear that in my voice, but I feel better than I may sound.

So here I am recording this episode for you and in this episode I want to share a little insight about

simplifying as you simplify your life, you might think that you need to do something drastic or something that instantly creates change.

And this is not always the case when you want to simplify.

Usually it's the small steps you take consistently that create the most lasting change.

You could even say the same for creating a meditation ritual. When you show up

consistently and you start small, so you meditate for one minute just sitting in silence maybe

sipping some tea before you actually settle yourself down to meditate in a chair or on a cushion.

You might just simply sip tea or drink your smoothie or just relax for even one minute,

until you begin to get used to how that feels.

And then you may sit for longer and you get used to that. And pretty soon these small

consistent changes add up and before you know it, you're meditating for 15, 20 minutes,

30 minutes at a time, and you want more. And you can begin to feel that this is an important ritual in your life

that you look forward to. So this is also how you create simplicity in your life. I attended last weekend a three-day healing retreat. I wasn't quite sure what to expect

but it was a healing retreat near my home. So I attended this retreat and it was very interesting to listen to several of the presenters who shared testimonies from their own lives about how they had overcome

major addictions or how they healed from cancer or how they overcame great odds.

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