This is episode 1,786.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Mickley and I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down,

to connect to the best part of who you are. That's the part you tap into

when you sit down to meditate. That's the part that you can lose as you go about your busy day. In today's episode, we continue along with our forgiveness

meditation series. Throughout this week, you've discovered meditation tips and techniques

to help you forgive.

Forgiveness is one of the most difficult qualities to cultivate.

So if you find that as you've gone throughout this series,

you've struggled a bit,

you are experiencing a very normal reaction.

As you're guided through your meditation technique for today, you will cultivate compassion as you forgive someone or some situation.

And as you cultivate this compassion, you may find a sense of freedom as you release this burden. And that's really what it feels like when you're holding onto a grudge or a grievance.

It feels like something's weighing you down because you're constantly being reminded of something that you need to hold on to.

You won't allow yourself to forget or even to work through the pain or anger or even

hatred you may be experiencing because of this grudge or grievance.

That's why when you do forgive, you feel an immediate lightness and sense of relief, this freedom.

Now, we have been exploring these techniques all week long,

so I'm going to guide you as you put these techniques together into one forgiveness

meditation.

So you'll focus on forgiving someone and then layer these techniques

into this forgiveness meditation. Know that if you want to go a little more deeply into this series

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