Welcome to episode 2959 of Your Daily Guided Meditation.

I welcome you to a brand new series we're launching into.

And this is actually a continuation of last week's series you explored.

And it's going to be about regulating your emotional states.

You're going to discover the art of self soothing.

This is where you are able to calm and eliminate your stress reactions to some of the top

stressors in your life. In fact, I invite you as your challenge this week to select

a stressor in your life just as you did in last week's series which was all about stress

inoculation, practicing techniques to help you manage your stress reactions.

So you're going to have ample time this week to practice the techniques that are going to allow

you to manage some of your top stressors. So we're going to be doing that in each episode together.

So your challenge is to do an additional five minutes a day to focus on one of your top stressors.

Maybe you want to select a few top stressors or maybe there's just one big stressor you'd like

to eliminate. Focus on that and practice doing a technique. Maybe the technique I share with you

in each episode practice that technique for the day for at least five minutes as you

think about your top stressor. This can take some practice and it can also take some getting

used to and that is why we're doing it because this is how you do eliminate your reaction to stress.

Remember balance is possible. You can achieve emotional balance to where

you don't allow your emotions to spiral too far upward to where you feel like you're out of

control with anxiety, tension, fear, self-doubt or to spiral too far downward to where you're

experiencing sadness, perhaps depression, hopelessness. These emotions that spiral your emotions

downward. So emotional balance is when you're constantly working with this because of course life

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