This is Mary Maddox with MeditationOasis.com.

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This is a guided meditation for relieving stress.

It's especially for when you feel pressured.

It may be pressure from a real deadline or it may be some kind of self-created pressure.

In any case, the sense of pressure doesn't actually help you to accomplish.

You'll be able to accomplish a lot more when you're feeling relaxed and your mind is clear.

So you can let go of whatever it is that you think you have to do and take some time

for this meditation.

You can't find a comfortable position and close your eyes.

Just be easy, noticing what's happening right now.

If you've been feeling pressured, you'll feel that now.

How do you sense that?

Perhaps it's a rush of thoughts?

From feeling of anxiety or frustration, your stability.

Where do you feel it in your body?

Finding yourself feel that sense of pressure in your body.

And now bring your awareness to your breathing, noticing the breath moving in and out.

Not trying to change your breathing or manipulate it, simply noticing it.

Your breath moves in and out without effort.

It's been going on automatically without you even thinking about it.

Your ability to create and achieve is there without effort.

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