Hello and welcome to Mindfulness Plus, the ultimate, the final episode of season two.

If you're here with us, if you're listening, thank you for making the

journey of season two with us. I'm happy to be with you here right now. A couple things before I

get underway with the lesson, the guided practice. Because this is the last lesson, we're going to

take a few months off to recalibrate, write some new episodes,

fine-tune some of our production.

I would encourage you to go back to the 60-some-odd podcast, recordings, practices that are banked now on the Mindfulness Plus podcast. If you're called to them,

it's a great practice resource for you if you're wanting to deepen your meditation practice.

And feel free to share it with a friend, as always. Yes, so we'll be back for season three in

April of 2019.

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Okay, the lesson today.

It starts with my annual meditation retreat, the last episode from last week I mentioned

I just come out of meditation retreat, like minutes before the recording of last week's episode.

And I mentioned briefly that it was a crazy week.

So I want to just say a word about it.

First, every year, right around the solstice during Lent before Christmas, however you want to calendar it.

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