This is episode 1,556. Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you

for being exactly where you are as you get ready to meditate.

In today's episode you are going to be guided using a relaxation, meditation technique. We are featuring the Hong Saab breathing

technique this week as we explore relaxation every single day And in yesterday's episode I shared with you the notion of

feeling the heat when you are relaxing or starting something new, even if your new

path or your new journey is exciting to you and it seems as though things are going really well for you.

You can still find yourself feeling agitated for no apparent reason, and this can be perplexing. You may feel as though you finally achieved something, but

yet you're not happy. It's not how you thought it would be. I received some messages from some of you telling me

that feeling the heat made a lot of sense for you because despite everything seeming to go your way, you weren't able to really relax.

So people try to relax when they're feeling stressed, and as though things are out of control or maybe

something very upsetting or disturbing happened to them. so they want to relax.

But there is the situation where you really don't know what is going on with you.

You can't quite put your finger on it. You just don't feel happy.

You just can't relax. And that can show up as lashing out in anger for no apparent reason or bursting into tears or feeling deeply upset.

For some seeming... deeply upset for some seemingly minor incident and when you

experience this allow yourself the grace to honor where you are and think about if there's been a significant change or shift in your life, because that's usually

when you begin to feel the heat, something that takes you out of the familiar, even if

the familiar was unfulfilling, or the familiar was maybe even very stressful or harmful for you.

When you create a shift in your life, there's friction because you're required now to adapt to a different way of living your life,

a different way of thinking and perceiving to what you've always known or

what you've known for quite a while.

And when you experience this, allow yourself to take a step back and evaluate how you're feeling and what may have triggered it.

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