Welcome to episode 3,000.5 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and you are

at day five of this series we're exploring this week.

It is all about moving beyond fear and tuning into your intuition.

Now you have a challenge this week and I want to share that your challenge is designed to help you

cultivate your intuition. It's a challenge where you become very mindfully aware of how you're feeling in your environment.

So when you are in a certain space, maybe you're at work or at home or you're walking,

maybe even driving in your car, tune into your environment and notice the sensations you're feeling in your body and then

associate those sensations with how you're feeling at that moment in your environment.

So you may feel a little stressed

if you're driving to work and heavy traffic.

Just notice that you're feeling sensations of maybe even

fear that you'll be late or stress and notice where you hold these sensations when you arrive wherever you're going,

tune into how you feel in that environment. You may notice that you feel fear and in fact you may notice that you may notice and in fact you may

notice and this is always very interesting that you feel fear in places that you regularly frequent and you hadn't really tuned into that before.

In fact, you may have noticed that you push it away, but yet you feel this level of fear.

It can be a low level of fear, or even a high level of fear. There is a location that I walk by

on a regular basis around my home and even though it is a really safe area, there's a certain spot that makes me feel a little

nervous.

And so when I was tuning into my environment doing this challenge, I started to notice some

apprehensive sensations in my body.

And I noticed it was in my gut, like this gut knowing or this gut instinct.

And I tried to determine why I felt that way, and I really don't know, but I just know that in this certain location I feel a little

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