Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I am your host, Thomas Mconki. Thank you for listening today. So I don't know how long it's been since

we did our last lengthier guided meditation, but I've got a little tickle telling me it's time to do

a little bit longer of a meditation. So that's what we're going to do today. Every few episodes,

I will just do an extended meditation

instead of talking about a particular topic in the mindfulness practice. We'll just

practice. And that's what today's episode is. Just practice. Enough talk. Take a moment to settle in.

Take a moment to settle in.

Wherever you are, wherever you've chosen to practice today, just take a moment to find your seat.

Fill the ground beneath you.

Appreciate this human life and this opportunity to practice, to be awake, and to receive this moment with the fullness of joy. When practicing meditation, you might often receive the instruction to relax and settle in.

And yet, we can't necessarily just relax and just settle in.

Something about the way we come into this world from the moment we're born, we're trying to figure out if the world's safe, if life is trustworthy.

And because we're all human beings raised in imperfect circumstances, there are microscopic aspects of our beings of our personality that hold back a little bit, distrust.

So in order to really truly drop down, at least as much as we can in this particular practice,

I want to invite you to do something a little different. I want to invite you to connect something a little different.

I want to invite you to connect to a being whom you can completely trust.

Now, to be clear, this being,

it could be a real person that you actually know. Somebody with whom you've had experience

that just tells you you can absolutely trust them. In their presence, you feel profoundly cared

for, deeply known, deeply loved.

See what comes up.

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