Welcome to episode 1,867 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you back to day three of our seven part series this week all about

giving yourself a stress relief detox.

A detox is when you let go of something,

so you cleanse of something from your life. In this case you are focusing on a particular kind of stress you'd like to let go of in your life this week and

you're focusing on this one aspect of stress all week long. So instead of tackling the general concept of

stress in your life because we have lots of different stresses that impact the different parts of our life.

If you could just focus on one aspect of stress in your life this week and go deep with it, you will find yourself

much better able to manage this particular stress in your life.

And this will give you momentum

to keep you going and focusing on other kinds of stress in your life.

The most important part of releasing or detoxing stress

is really the awareness of the stress you're experiencing in your life with

overwhelm being so distracted and busy and all the stress we experience on a day-to-day basis,

it's likely that you don't really even pay attention to stress in your life.

You may have all these aches and pains and aggravations and anxieties that you just live with.

You just think, oh, this is the way it is.

You may not even remember what it's like

not to experience certain kinds of stress.

I want to assure you that you will feel so much better when you begin to become aware of the stress in your life and work with that stress to be able to manage it.

In the very first episode, a few episodes back,

I guided you through an awareness of stress technique that you can go back and review if you'd like to.

Well in today's episode you're going to be guided using a breathing technique.

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