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.

I am a meditation teacher and today in this episode you're going to be guided in a meditation on forgiveness.

And this is episode 560.

And every day this week we've explored a different meditation technique as you explore forgiveness.

And this is part of a holiday meditation, month-long theme

where every week we're exploring different beautiful qualities of your spirit, gifts of the

spirit. So we started out with peace and then we did faith and we're doing

forgiveness this week and I encourage you to be a little easy on yourself this week because

it's a very deep topic forgiveness and I don't recommend you do forgiveness meditations on a regular basis that

might surprise you. But the reason I say this is because when you focus on forgiveness, it really

does take a lot out of you. And I'd rather have you focus on uplifting themes, themes that are going to support you and make you feel more confident about yourself.

This is going to help you generally be a more happier person. And also, this will help improve relationships around you.

And when you focus for a long time or excessively on emotions that can bring you down, where you're

thinking and bringing to mind harmful or hurtful incidents or things

that happened, then it can start to make you think more negatively.

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing to do. But I encourage you not to really focus on

forgiveness too much just do the meditation allow yourself to experience it how you will

maybe you feel a great sense of freedom and forgiveness or maybe you feel a little upset remembering painful episodes.

So just go with how you're feeling and make sure that you honor yourself in this process.

You might want to hold a rock or some kind of token.

I mention a rock because for me rocks are very supportive.

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