This is episode 2,135 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you

as you give yourself permission to slow down.

And in today's episode, you are going to continue

along with the theme we're exploring this week, a journey within, finding inner peace

in the midst of uncertainty and I want to

out there in the world and finding peace within yourself.

And I want to share with you a quote

from the German poet Rainer Maria Wilk, who said,

the only journey is the one within.

So no matter what you might be going through today

or experiencing over these past months of life in a pandemic, when you sit down to meditate, you cultivate how you

want to feel. You decide what it is you need and then as you sit and stillness you

seek that feeling within yourself. You allow your thoughts to come down and your

body to be still and you tap into those inner strengths that are always there.

This week you have had a challenge. You've been on a wisdom quest, listening to your inner wisdom and

your intuition. I encourage you to do a brain dump before you sit down to meditate today.

Release your thoughts of worry and fear and stress. Write them down in your journal or on a piece of paper or simply

visualize yourself doing so and then either mentally or actually crumple up the paper and toss it out. And then allow yourself to sit in stillness, listening to your

inner wisdom, and then after you meditate, write down your reflections, write down those thoughts that inspire

you, that give you hope and strength. This is your true inner nature, your

inner wisdom. In today's meditation, I'll guide you as you ground yourself in your values and what you stand for.

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