Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband that helps you meditate and sleep and meditation studio, the five-star app. I'm Patricia Carpus.

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Today's guest is Diana Winston. It's so great to have her back on Untangle.

Diana is the director of mindfulness education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center

and the author of several mindfulness books, including The Little Book of Being, Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness.

Today we talk about why forgiveness matters

and why carrying our anger or resentment around with us is like carrying hot coal.

Dropping the hot coal can lead us to more freedom, openness, and joy, which is great

for the new year. It doesn't mean we have to condone or forget,

but it is truly an act of self-compassion.

It's simply good for us,

and the practices she teaches can be really powerful.

She also shares several practices on dealing with difficult emotions.

Lots of good stuff here for us humans.

Now, here's Diana.

Diana, it's so good to have you back on Untangle. I loved our last interview and I'm really excited to talk about these topics today. That's great to be back with you. Yeah. So today we're going to talk about some courses that you've been

teaching. And the first topic, which I feel is so important and maybe even especially as we

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