This is episode 1,784.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down.

In today's episode, you are going to discover a breathing technique for forgiveness.

And we continue with our forgiveness meditation

technique in each episode that you can do on or off your meditation

technique in each episode that you can do on or off your meditation cushion or chair to help you in the often difficult process of forgiveness.

There are varying degrees of forgiveness.

In fact, there are three degrees of forgiveness that I will share with you before I guide you

through the breathing technique. And I'd like you to consider where you are on this spectrum of forgiveness.

So you may be focusing on a particular grievance this week and you want to forgive someone

or something that happened to you.

You may not feel as though you're ready to forgive,

but you know it's the right thing to do, to move on with your life.

And this is the first degree of forgiveness.

It's when there's conformity without a real heartfelt release of your grievance. But this is a start and sometimes this is all you can do for a

while. Forgiveness is a journey. It's not a one-time event where you think about

forgiving someone or some situation and it's done. You've forgiven them and you're

moving on. It's not usually that easy. You know in your mind what you should be doing and what you want to do, but your heart can

take a little time to catch up.

So the second degree of forgiveness is where you have conformed, you want to forgive and move on.

And you feel a sense of reconciliation.

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