This is episode 1,822 of the Daily Meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm honored. You are here

giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.

That's the part you tap into when you consistently show up for yourself and meditate.

And if you're not to the point where you are settling yourself down to sit in stillness,

no worries.

Even if you do the meditation techniques that I share, I share a different one in each episode, you will still calm your mind and relax your body

and we all start somewhere. So wherever you are on your meditation journey is just right for you at this moment.

In today's episode, I want to congratulate you on reaching the final episode of our seven-part series we've been exploring this week on confidence.

If you're just joining us, you are in the right place because each episode is unique.

We follow a specific theme for a full week, and that theme is explored in different ways

with a different meditation technique in each episode. Your technique for today, as you do, your

final confidence meditation series is to gain awareness of your big wins for the week

and also where you feel you may need to improve some challenges you may have had along the way.

And those challenges can provide many times more insight than even your big wins.

You begin to notice yourself improve how you respond to stress and how you live your life when you do a

weekly reflection. So as you get ready to settle yourself down to meditate, I want to share

with you a final insight to add to your confidence plan you've been creating for yourself this week.

Along with listening to your heart, that was your challenge this week and to listen to the heart of others.

Create ways where you can set small goals for yourself that you could follow through on.

Because when you can do something that requires taking action,

you feel engaged and you also begin to see results, even small results.

And even if the result isn't a good result, maybe you've made a

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