Hi, welcome back to

your Daily Mindfulness.

In today's session, I'm going to

share a new word with you, querencia.

Querencia means a place where you

feel safe and at home, where you are

your most authentic self, a place

from which your strength is drawn.

I really love this word.

I came across it recently and it made me

think of recharging myself, especially

that, that last part of that definition,

a place from which your strength is drawn.

I know a handful of places in my life

that are physical places, but also

places that I go to internally, where

I recharge myself, where I reconnect

to my different strengths, where if

I'm depleted, I can go to restore.

Some of these are physical

locations, as I said.

Places within my apartment

or places nearby.

Walking trails, that when I

go there, there's a, there's

a sense of it's okay to be me.

It's okay to let down my guard.

It's okay to, to go slowly.

And something about that is restorative.

And it's also made me think of

other times in my life where

I didn't have that as much.

And it kept me in more

of a stressed out state.

So I don't know where you are in your

life or how you might relate to the idea

of having a place like this, a querencia.

But my encouragement today, is to

explore what that could look like in

your life and what it could look like to

reconnect to those places more frequently.

A place where you feel safe and at home,

where you are your most authentic self, a

place from which your strength is drawn.

The beautiful thing about what we're doing

here in these practices is that where

we're developing that place internally.

But we also need to recognize that those

external locations are really important.

Our environment absolutely informs

how we feel internally, the sense

of safety we can experience here.

And so I encourage you to look at the

places around you that you do go to, to

feel safe and at home, where you do go

to, to restore and replenish yourself.

And specifically, where can you

go, a place you can go from which

your, your strength is drawn,

where you reconnect to that.

Life is ebbing and flowing, and we

have to go into experiences that

can be uncomfortable periodically.

And it's important when we step out of

those that we can come back to something,

where we can be ourselves, where we can

feel authentic and where we can replenish.

So take some time today to assess

what that might look like for you,

and also have maybe a plan for how

you can connect to those places

more frequently in your life.

I think it'll go a really long way

for helping your mindfulness journey

and also leading to more wellbeing

and contentment in your life.

Thank you for your practice.

Let's settle in for today's meditation.