This is episode 994.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I welcome you today as you continue exploring our theme for this week.

We always explore a particular theme all week long,

and in this week we're exploring how to cultivate rituals and habits that you need.

That will make a big difference in your life. And this is part six of this seven parts week long

series and in today's episode you're going to be guided using a meditation technique to help you focus. So today's

technique will be a technique you can use when you start to feel as though you're losing your motivation

for continuing with this ritual or habit you want to create.

And so this is a technique that will help you focus.

You'll also discover a way to not take yourself so seriously as you go about the series.

Sometimes meditation can be a little heavy and you can start to feel as though you're just taking yourself

maybe a little too seriously.

And I think it's so important not to feel intimidated by your own meditation ritual.

Now this might seem odd, but a lot of people that I work with or that are new to meditation, they tell me that they feel

a little foolish sitting down to meditate because they feel like they just don't know what to do or they're not doing

something right and they'll just never get the hang of it or they'll feel like

they're just not at a time in their life where they can really sit down

to meditate because there's so much going on and they feel like everything kind of needs

to be so perfect when they create a meditation

ritual.

Well, I don't want you to feel that way.

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