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Now before our episode begins, here's a quick word from our sponsors.

Hey friend and welcome to wake me up.

This episode is a guided meditation

to help you if you're in a state of high anxiety, stress, or worry.

No matter how you're feeling right now, in the next 10 minutes,

we will guide your mind and body into a calm and relaxed state.

And by the end of this meditation, you will be able to handle whatever is causing that stress or

anxiety in a productive and positive manner. So go ahead and find a

comfortable position that you would like to meditate in. If you're in bed, I do recommend that you at least roll over and sit up, but that's simply so you don't fall back asleep.

Especially for this meditation, take the liberty to assume any position that you find most comfortable and relaxing.

Now take a deep breath in, nice and slow, fill all the way up through your chest and your belly.

Hold at the top. and then exhale, release, and just gently close your eyes. as we begin to settle into a meditative state.

Let's remember the most important things

that right here and right now, you are safe.

And the peak of those negative feelings you've been experiencing

has already passed.

Take another deep breath with me. In, nice and slow.

Hold. nice and slow, then exhale even slower.

Let the exhale be longer than the inhale.

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