Hey everyone, welcome to being well. This is Forrest Hanson. And today we have something a little bit different and maybe even a little bit special for you.

One of the requests that we've been hearing a lot since the beginning of the

coronavirus epidemic has come from health care providers of various kinds.

Mental health practitioners to be sure, but also doctors and nurses and people working in

frontline medical environments, whose work has been directly impacted by the

coronavirus outbreak. They've been asking for tools or techniques or practices, meditations,

whatever to help them get through this extremely challenging time. And that's what we have for you here today.

Rick took the time to record a practice and meditation

that can be helpful really for anyone who wants to develop more of a stance of both calm strength and openness

to their experience regardless of that experience is positive or negative in nature, and maybe even the capacity to both feel something fully and then

also let that feeling flow through you.

So here's Rick doing a guided meditation and I hope you enjoy it.

I'm Rick Hansen, a psychologist and meditation teacher,

and I wanted to express my gratitude truly from the heart for everyone who is serving others during

this time of the coronavirus.

And in particular, I want to express my gratitude to health care providers, doctors, nurses, other health care staff, other hospital staff, as well as first responders, paramedics, firefighters, people in law enforcement, everyone

who's coming together to help us all really get through this time of an epidemic.

And I've been asked if I could offer a brief guided meditation that's really specific,

especially for people who are dealing with others who are ill in

health care environments.

And I hope that this will be a value to others too.

So to begin briefly I like to start with three breaths in which

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