Welcome to episode 3,128 of your daily meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and as always, as I have been for nearly 10 years. I am so honored you are joining me as you settle yourself down and get ready to meditate. If you're new here I always share insight with you and that's because we follow a theme each week.

So half of the podcast episode is Insight that's related to the week's theme.

And the other half is your guided meditation.

One more thing I want to share with you is that in every episode I share a different

meditation technique and the technique is always customized around the week's theme.

So you can go deeply into a particular theme,

trying techniques with insight, with your meditation.

And this week's theme is by special request

from a fellow meditator in Cape Town, South Africa.

Marlene wants to know how to overcome the feeling

when listening to negative things like news

or social media posts.

And these, she says, seem to pop up

when she's not even following them,

but they really affect her even when she's trying not to listen.

She says even the few seconds

or even hearing one negative word

can put her down for hours. She wonders how does she overcome things like this in life?

And I hear from many of you that you struggle with the same thing and I do too.

So this is a week where your insight is going to help you focus on tactics to overcome

negative news.

And then you're guided in a meditation

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