Hello everyone and welcome to the Marie Forleo podcast. I'm Marie Forleo and I'm so

glad you're here because today is part four of our Take a Breath series. But first up,

you know the drill, we are going to take a nice big deep breath together. So here we go.

Inhale in and exhale out. Now that is actually the perfect preview for today's episode

because it's all about calming our minds by tuning in to the present moment. And I can't

think of anyone better to help us with that than meditation teachers, Prithaji and Krishnaji.

They are really incredible and will actually lead us through a meditation together. It's fantastic.

But before that, you're going to hear a story about two monks with wildly different mindsets.

Let's get into it.

Two monks, we just named them Yes, me and Naomi. They're returning back to the monastery and on the

way, they have to cross a river. And just as they're able to cross a river, they hear a woman crying.

So Yes, me goes up to her and asks her what was troubling her. She actually has to cross the

river but the river is so full. So she's fearing that she'll not be able to get back to her toddler

and she's fearing that he would cry for her all night. So Esmi offers to help her so he carries her

and leaves her on the other side of the bank. And Yes, me and Naomi continue on the walk towards

the monastery. And after half an hour into the walk, Naomi in a very agitated tone speaks up. You

know what you've done. And Yes, me says, this is very calm. Yes. He says, no, you carried the woman.

Yes, me is like so. A master said, never look at a woman. You went and spoke to her. A master said,

never speak to her when you touched her and the master never touched her when you carried her.

You've done something very wrong for which Yes, me very calmly looks at Naomi and says, yes,

but I've dropped her half an hour ago. It is you who's still carrying her. I love that story

because it illustrates how much in our minds we carry our past or the worries about the future or

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