This is episode 1,702.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I congratulate you for being here as you get ready to do one of the best things you could possibly do for yourself today and that is meditate.

There are not too many things that impact your life in such a positive way as does meditation.

And in today's episode, you will be guided as you layer different meditation techniques to remember where you came from, your roots, the part of your life that is the foundation for who you are. And that's what this series we've

been exploring is all about. We've been exploring from the book of CS Lewis called The Four Loves.

And the first love he talks about is the familial or family type of love, love and affection.

And when you feel secure, and you've processed your emotions from the love from your family, those people who helped shape who you are, then you can experience a deeper more connected love with romantic partners, with friends and even spiritually. So in today's episode we are at the very tail end of the

episode we have one more episode tomorrow, but for today's episode you'll be guided as you combine

the different techniques you've explored all week long into one meditation for love.

And I'll read a little of the book from C.S. Lewis, about an important part of the book from CS Lewis about an important part of familial or family love and that has to do with jealousy. He says that the jealousy of affection is closely

connected with its reliance on what is old and familiar.

So also with the total or relative unimportance for affection of what I call appreciative love.

We don't want the old familiar faces to become brighter or more beautiful, the old ways to be changed even for the better.

The old jokes and interests to be replaced by exciting novelties. Change is a threat to affection. And he goes on to

talk about how, especially between brothers and sisters, siblings,

when one suddenly left the pack so to speak and maybe developed a new interest that seemed to take the person away from your family.

Maybe this sibling took a job somewhere and completely changed because of the type of job the person was doing or maybe when they got married they became

like a different person or maybe they discovered a religion and that isolated the person from the rest of the family,

anything that takes away from what is familiar can cause great jealousy.

C.S. Lewis says, for affection is the most instinctive, in that sense the most animal of the loves.

Its jealousy is proportionately fierce.

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