This is episode 1,641.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who

you are. That's the part that meditation brings out so beautifully. In today's episode we launch into a brand new theme that we will explore for an entire week.

Each week we explore a particular theme in depth for a full week.

That way you're able to really master a particular quality in your life.

And in each day's episode you'll discover a different meditation technique that you can do as you meditate.

We have the full half hour guided meditations over at our SIP and O'm meditation app, that's SIP, A and D, O M, and there you can be guided in depth through a full meditation and you can try it

for two weeks absolutely free it's access to the full app, over 1,600 guided meditations and a new one is

added daily, just like here on the podcast. A meditation technique is added daily. On the app there's another benefit you receive

in that you receive a journal that goes along with each week's theme and on the journal

there's a daily reflection question to guide you each day and you also get a slowdown guide with the different techniques used each day.

So again, that's the Sippinome Meditation app.

Well, for you here, getting ready to do your own meditation or maybe to pick up a technique to do as you go through

your day. It's all good. We all start somewhere on our meditation journey.

For your technique today, you will be guided

as you release a worry. Our theme is peace. In fact, we'll be exploring peace all

month long and for each week this month you'll explore a different aspect

of peace. Before you can really settle yourself down and experience peace, it's important to release, worries, fears, self-doubts, and those emotions that take you away from feeling grounded and at peace.

So as you settle yourself down today, right now, you'll begin to relax your mind and your body. And you'll begin to notice where you seem to hold on to, worry. Does it seem to settle in the pit of your stomach and cause you fear? Does it seem to create a tightness in your shoulders and chest?

A type of anxiety and dread.

Maybe you feel your jaws clenched. Notice where you harbor your worry right now. Where do you feel worry within yourself? And as you begin to become aware of worry, because it's easy to mask how you're feeling,

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