Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast.

Have you ever had one of those days where the world, it just feels like too much,

whether it's the news that's depressing or there's just so much going on at work or your life is so overwhelming and you just are not

sure how you even going to get through the day. But then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you crack

open a book and you read a passage or you hear a song playing or you see a quote online and it just

boom drops into your day like an anchor, cuts right through

all the noise of the world and the headlines, and it lands square in your heart.

And suddenly, you can't explain it, but you just feel a little bit better.

It's almost as if that passage that you read or that song that you heard was meant just

for you at this moment. Your shoulders drop. You can breathe again. You feel a little better.

Well, I believe that this episode is going to do exactly that for you, that it was meant to find you at this moment

in your life, that it's going to cut through the noise of the world and land deep in your heart.

That's the magic of my guest today, Mark Mepo.

He's the number one New York Times bestselling author of the

seminal work, The Book of Awakening, which has changed millions of people's lives, including mine

and my husband, Chris. This book is so important to me, it sits on my bedside table. I read it

several days a week, and Mark's writings are so important to me. They have shown up for me

time and time again, exactly when I needed them most. So I am absolutely thrilled for him to be here

for you and me. And wherever it is that you are at this exact moment, I promise you the sound of

Mark's words, they are meant to find you.

The rhythm, the poetry, there's something that you're about to hear that's going to touch something deep inside you.

It's like being moved by a song, even if you don't know all the words yet.

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