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Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of our Meditation Monday series with The Anxity Chicks.

I'm Alison Sepanara, and today we are going to learn how to sit with sadness.

This is a five-minute guided meditation, and it's going to help you really learn how to not push sadness away, but gently allow space for it.

And just remember you're safe here.

So I want you to find a comfortable position, either seated or lying down.

Rest your hands gently in your lap or by your side.

And if it feels okay, close your eyes or soften your gaze.

Let's take a deep breath in through your nose and a slow exhale through your mouth.

Let's do that again.

Take a deep breath, inhale through your nose and a slow exhale through your mouth.

I want you to bring attention to the weight of your body.

Feel the ground beneath you, strong and steady steady holding with care notice your breath as it moves in

and out you don't need to change it just allow it to guide you back to the present moment.

If you feel tightness in your chest or heaviness in your body,

gently place a hand there and remind yourself,

it's safe to feel sad now imagine sadness arriving like gentle rain

not overwhelming just steady drops falling softly around you.

Picture the earth beneath you absorbing the rain, welcoming it.

Notice how sadness, like rain, can soften, cleanse cleanse and nourish as you breathe in silently say I allow this feeling

and as you breathe out, I am safe to feel.

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