Welcome to episode 1,863 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

How are you doing today?

I hope you are enjoying your weekend.

In today's episode we continue along with our series

that has us exploring stress relief for focus.

Each day this week, you've discovered a different meditation technique to help you manage stress so you can have more

focus and clarity.

And today I'll guide you as you layer together the different meditation techniques we've explored throughout the whole week. When you layer meditation techniques together, you are

able to have much more peace, energy, and clarity as you meditate.

And you can layer the techniques, whether you are seated on your meditation, chair,

or cushion, or you are going about your busy day.

So for example, I'll share with you what I do

as I use meditation techniques in my own life. So I'll layer together these

meditation techniques from this week as I share with you how I use them to help me overcome some stress as I was

trying to focus and actually as I was trying to make an important decision.

And this decision was whether or not

I should go on a retreat.

I belong to a spiritual group that meets every other week and I hosted it at my home last night actually.

And there's a retreat everybody's been talking about going to,

but it's in another state and I'd have to travel and stay overnight one or even two nights. I'd really like to go to this retreat, but I thought that it might be a little difficult for me to fit it into

my schedule, as well as to travel there. So I've had this retreat on my mind for about two weeks and I wasn't

sure whether or not I should go. And there's another member in my spiritual group who really wants to go on the retreat.

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