Forgiveness Affirmation

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

One of the hardest things you'll do in life is to find within yourself the capacity to forgive someone who has harmed you. Forgiveness is essential if you want to experience true inner freedom. If you think you're not quite ready to forgive someone, know that forgiveness is a journey. It takes time to forgive someone, especially if that someone is yourself. In this week's series, you begin one of the most difficult, yet most important, paths to inner freedom -- the journey of forgiveness. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Begin the process of experiencing compassion for someone who has harmed you. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I forgive myself. I forgive you." Breathing - Inhale forgiveness, pause + observe, exhale peace Mudra - Shunya - forgiveness Chakra - 4th- compassion Herb - Hibiscus - heart health Yoga Asana - Freedom Pose

This is part 2 of a 7-part meditation series, Forgiveness, episodes 2047-2053.

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 2048 of the Daily Meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley, and I wonder how you're doing this week. I'm excited to share with you this episode, which has you guided using an affirmation. An affirmation is a positive statement
0:25.1	you repeat with attention and focus. And that has a lot to do with our theme this week.
0:34.0	Our theme this week is all about forgiveness. One of the hardest things you could do.
0:43.6	And I honor you for being here because it's not easy to show up for yourself. It's especially
0:51.9	not easy to forgive others or to forgive yourself. It's especially not easy to forgive others or to forgive yourself. If you are experiencing
1:00.4	shame or regret, it can be doubly hard to forgive yourself as it is to forgive someone else. Even just thinking about the harm caused
1:17.6	can make you feel your body constrict. You can feel your heart become hard. You can feel your muscles tighten.
1:31.3	You might even notice that your heart beats faster.
1:35.3	You have a physiological impact when you don't forgive.
1:42.3	You don't necessarily have to forget because all of our life experiences teach us lessons.
1:50.0	But when you forgive, you release yourself to freedom to pursue your life unhindered by any kind of resentment.
2:03.8	Remember, as you go through this week's forgiveness series, you are on a journey.
2:11.6	Taking small steps will guide you to letting go of thoughts that hold you back negative repetitive
2:23.0	thoughts and this steals one of your most valuable resources which is at an all-time
2:31.9	premium these days and that is your time and your attention your focus.
2:41.8	I'd like to share with you a story that I read and I don't know if it's true and I don't remember where I read it but it stood out in my
2:53.8	mind and I think it relates to what you are experiencing this week as you go through this series.
3:03.6	So the story is that two of the world's wealthiest billionaires, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, were at Bill Gates's house in Washington State.
3:22.5	And Bill Gates' father was there. And he was looking at these two
3:29.0	financially powerful men. And he asked them, what's the secret to your success?
3:38.0	And without hesitation, each of them replied focus and that's what harboring resentment steals from
3:49.4	you it's your focus so you never really experience life fully.
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