This is episode 1,700 and 7. Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for showing up for yourself today. You are so worth

slowing down for in case I haven't told you that lately. Well today we are midweek in our series and we continue with the theme of renewal

having you feel refreshed and renewed, and most importantly, providing you with skills

to remain refreshed and you can approach your mindset in a similar way as you approach

to any other information you allow to cross your path.

And we have been following along with the notes on a website I found called Prezzy.com where they talk about this information overload.

And I think you will agree that many of us also have an information overload going on,

and that may be why you decided to meditate. Well you might be right here.

And you might even not be to the point where you settle yourself down to meditate. You might simply be listening to this as you

go about your day and do other things. That is fine because we all start somewhere.

And just the fact that you're attuning yourself

to the benefits of meditation and a meditation lifestyle

is so important to eventually sitting down on a

meditation cushion or on a chair and giving yourself a full meditation experience.

So if you are a long time meditator or brand new, it's all good.

So the skill sets in these notes by Megan Ferguson talk about being skeptical and

looking for evidence when you are evaluating what news or thoughts,

you are being exposed to.

And so you've been going through the different skill sets

for this information overload lifestyle we are pretty much all exposed to these days

and that has to do with identifying the kind of content you are allowing. And that news is

identifying the kind of content you are allowing yourself to be exposed to.

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