This is episode 2,114 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you back.

Here you are, getting ready to give yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. And it really is all about slowing down because even in these days

of pandemic when you may feel as though you'd like to have a little bit more access to do the things you want to do.

Still, your emotions may be running high,

and that can take a toll. In fact, this week's series is all about helping you

release those negative emotions that are like a thief stealing away some of the best moments

of your life. In this week's series we've been exploring the ancient wisdom of one of the most famous Indian

sages, Pantanjali, who the classic yoga sutras. Yoga means union or unity and the

yoga sutras are representative of living a life with a higher state of consciousness,

feeling unified or connected.

And in today's episode, you're going to discover a meditation technique to help you feel not only united or connected within yourself but also with others with

the world around you.

And in these days of uncertainty

where there's not a lot of trust, at least where I live in the United States, and I know in many

other countries as well, with many of our major institutions such as our political, economic, health care, education,

even our spiritual and religious institutions have disappointed us in many cases.

Not to say that we have given up hope on everything necessarily, although there is that too, where there's definitely that going on today.

Pantancially offers with the yoga sutras away for you to feel unified within yourself, to feel connected.

This is through living a life where you incorporate a lot of the principles of yoga and meditation, which he called the Yamas.

And we explored the first yama a few weeks ago of non-harm or loving kindness and the second yama we explored in last week's series and that

had to do with non-lying or truthfulness.

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