Hello and welcome. We're so grateful you're here. Our meditation will begin shortly after a brief word from our sponsors who make these meditations available for free, for everyone.

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For years I believe that peace came from controlling my outer world, but I've learned that true peace only arrives when I release the illusion of control.

I can embrace things as they are without judgment.

So let's journey together into a space of embracing acceptance.

Allow yourself to notice and accept the present moment just as it is. I hope you enjoy. You're going to be. Let's begin by settling into comfort.

letting your face soften,

your shoulders drop, and your arms and legs and legs relax. Find your center as you bring your attention onto the rhythm of your breath. Breathe in a little deeper.

Breathe in a little deeper with every inhale

and breathe out a little longer with every exhale.

Slowing you down, clearing your body.

and calming your body. Oh, Oh, Oh, The glow of red, hot pain, lives somewhere inside, where what we want fights harshly against what is. Oh, It pulsates when someone isn't acting the way we want. It bubbles when a situation isn't what we want it to be. Oh, It roars with violent waves.

It roars with violent waves and tells our ego that the only way to calm it is to get the situation at all costs or to change the

situation at all costs or to change the people. Are you? Our ego flares, flares.

We make them wrong. We demonize what goes against our own desires. And we suffer and cause suffering around us. Oh, feel the toxic pain of this red glow burning throughout your body. Oh, Oh, Oh, Now take a deep breath in, inviting the air to cleanse you and calm the storms of suffering. Oh, Breathe.

breathing deep again and again. and again.

Slowly, fully. slowly, dimming the red glow of dissonance inside. inside and settling into a place of stillness. Oh, Oh, The Oh, Here is where radical acceptance is born,

in the calm space of our deep selves, who transcends the ego, and understands the

and understands the freedom that comes when we let go of control,

and accept what is. Oh, I accept who you are.

who you are.

I accept what is as it is. Oh, I'm going to be. Radical acceptance is not weak, it is not giving in.

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