Welcome to episode 3,202 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to day four of this week's series.

This week you are guided in a meditation series

that is titled The Samurai Mind and it's a meditation series for focus

and discipline.

And this is from the book,

Samurai Mind by Thomas Cleary.

Actually, it's called Samurai Wisdom.

And throughout this week's series,

you have a challenge, as you do with every series to create your own discipline and it should

include some kind of mindfulness or meditation which was very important to the samurai to train their mind and also train

your body. So mindfulness and movement includes some kind of movement, keeping your mind

and body sharp. And this is going to help you focus so much better on whatever you are

striving for in your life. Well today I'm going to share with you your insight as always and your insight is

going to elaborate on the part of the book that is about how the samurai valued failure and then you're going to be guided in a meditation and your

technique for today every day you have a different technique that you focus on

in the guided part of the meditation.

So I'll go ahead and guide you with the technique and you can do it as I share your

insight with you. It is a mudra and specifically it is the Gyan

mudra. The samurai used specific mudras and mudras are considered to be ways you position your hands or

fingers or even your body to activate a corresponding region of your brain.

So to do the Gyanne Mudra, you touch the tip of your thumb

to the tip of your index finger and then you extend the other three fingers outward

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