During this busy and exciting time of year, we'd like to offer a meditation designed to provide extra support for any upcoming travel plans you might have.

If you're looking for one of our classic meditative story episodes, we encourage you to

check out the rest of our library. As the holiday season approaches, many of us will be

traveling, crossing great expanses to be with friends and loved ones during this magical time of the year.

For me and my family, that means a long road trip down to my sisters.

For you, it might be a flight.

Flying and travel in general can be a source of stress and anxiety for many of us with so many logistics

to sort through so many crowds and long lines so much that feels out of our control it's not how any of us

would like to spend this special time. So, as you settle

into your seat, your bag safely stowed in the trunk or overhead compartment, closing

the eyes if you're able. Let's immerse ourselves in this meditation, designed specifically for your

travels ahead, and do what we can to let those worries drift away. Let them take off on a journey

of their own in another direction.

Schedule travel like this is quite unusual, because while people might walk, cycle or drive just for the sheer joy of it,

the entire purpose of boarding a flight or booking an extended trip on the train or bus is making it to your destination.

And from a mindfulness perspective, that makes this kind of travel particularly interesting.

Since while meditation does have destinations, in that it grows qualities in us such as awareness, insight and kindness,

how we get there is by becoming more intimate with what is happening right now.

Letting go of the past and future and whatever anxieties might exist in either place.

So in this meditation we're going to play a simple game. Using the details of this journey to help us.

And before we start, we'll take a moment to remember two names.

The first is the name of the city you departed from.

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