This is episode 1,665.

Welcome to your daily guided meditation.

I honor you for showing up for yourself today. How are you doing? Are you giving yourself a chance to

slow down by stopping at some point during your day, maybe even as you start your day or as you end your day and

sipping tea in candlelight.

Fire has such a primordial effect on us,

gazing into a candle helps to focus your thoughts, withdrawing them from whatever's going on outside of you to a state of more inward reflection. So this is a beautiful ritual. When you stop and sit and gaze at candlelight.

If you could do this every day this week

as you sip tea, this will help you to feel connected and to feel more compassion for yourself and

for the world around you.

Many of you, if you're following this along,

as I recorded towards the end of the year 2018, you are maybe finishing up festivities for the

holidays and getting ready for festivities for New Year's Eve.

As you do so, there's such a tendency to feel like you have to do something major, you have to do something grand or big, to celebrate

and to make the end of the year festive and fun and to make the holidays exciting

and all these different things going on.

Each time you sit down to meditate as you're doing today,

you withdraw from this external stimulus and all that's really required of you to do for

this inward peace is simply to show up for yourself and to parrot down to simplify to allow your true self to come forth. So sometimes the biggest thing you can do for inner peace is to simplify.

So as you're guided in today's meditation, I'm sharing with you a meditation

a meditation technique called a mudra.

Moodra is referred to as yoga in your hands.

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