Welcome to Episode 2956 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you as always to this week's meditation series.

This week is all about stress inoculation and you are guided in each episode with a different

meditation technique that you can practice and train yourself to help you manage stress.

And I wonder how your challenge is coming along every week you have a challenge to allow

you to experience the week's theme in a deeper way.

So to help inoculate you against stress, which is a possibility, you do not have to constantly

battle stress, you can come to a place where you don't feel particular kinds of stress

that you train yourself to resist.

So the challenge you have this week is to become aware of your different stressors and then

begin to practice the techniques you learn this week to help you manage those stressors.

So today I'm going to guide you in more of a mindfulness meditation and this is going

to allow you to do something unique.

There are different kinds of stressors all week long, you've been exploring how to

identify the kind of stress you're experiencing, come up with a technique and practice it to

manage that stress before you even experience that stress.

And finally to continue to practice and this is like your stress boot camp.

Well one more thing I encourage you to do has been shown to greatly diminish your stress

if you can become aware of it and that is the concept of stress contagion.

And what I mean by that is the kind of stress and anxiety that is contagious.

So your insight for today is this, this is research that was conducted by psychiatrist

and neuroscientist Jetson Brewer.

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