Welcome to episode 1,865 of the Daily Meditation podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.

That's the part you tap into each time.

You sit down to meditate and remember that consistency is the key to realizing benefits to meditation.

It's better to meditate for shorter amounts of time and to do this

consistently than to meditate more infrequently for longer amounts of time. So that is why I share

a daily meditation podcast to help you with consistency

as you meditate. This week we're exploring the theme of managing stress. In this week's series,

you will be giving yourself a stress detox.

And in today's episode, I'll share with you a meditation technique to help you begin to

become aware of stress in your body so that you can detox this stress.

Stress is one of the leading contributors to disease, especially heart disease. Heart disease is the number one killer of both

men and women in most westernized countries. It's even rising in non-Westernized countries.

In the United States where I live, it is currently the number one reason people die here in the United States where I live.

So doing a stress detox series this week can make a big difference for your physical health and wellness, but also your mental health and emotional wellness.

In today's episode, I'd like you to think of some kind of stress in your life.

You'd like to focus on all week long. And in each episode this week, you will discover a different meditation technique you can do to help

you detox, stress from your life. It's important to really focus on one area in your life where you'd like to decrease stress.

All of the techniques I share with you will benefit any part of your life where you might

be experiencing stress.

But when you focus and target one area and you daily, consistently for a week,

focus on this area and detox using the techniques I share with you, you will notice a difference in how you manage stress

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