This is episode 974. Welcome to your daily guided meditation.

Congratulations! I want to let you know how proud I am of you that you are completing

after today's episode this seven-part inner renewal meditation series.

You've gone through a week long exploration of

experimenting with different meditation techniques that support you, as you

renew yourself, bringing out and enhancing what's already great about you.

You've learned an affirmation of breathing technique Amoudra. You've done some

inner reflection. You focused on a chakra. You discovered an herb, the herb name,

and you layered the meditation techniques in a meditation in yesterday's episode.

Well today it's all about getting you outside. Whether that means opening a window

where ever you currently are meditating or actually getting outside walking.

Walking meditations are a little unique in that you're not sitting focusing on your inner

stillness. You are out in the world engaging and as you do so you are applying the meditation

techniques as tools to help you manage different stress triggers that you experience when you're

out in the world because when you're in your own meditation space with your eyes closed in your

own inner stillness well it's not so difficult to experience peace and clarity and

inner calm although it can take a little while to get to that point sometimes.

But when you're out in the world you really don't know what is going to come your way.

It's the unexpected and that is really when you begin to live a meditation lifestyle.

When you take these techniques off your cushion and into your everyday life.

Now I know it's not always easy to get out there and walk so go ahead and sit in your space if

that's what you need to do today that's just fine but if you could do so and open a window

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