Forgiving Yourself

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 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 6 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 two thousand seventy two of the daily meditation
0:06.3	podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm honored you are here to give yourself a little extra peace, energy, and clarity today.
0:20.3	In today's episode, you are going to be layering together the different meditation techniques
0:29.0	you've explored all week long in our series. Every week we focus on a theme. The theme this week has
0:37.3	been an important one and that is the theme of forgiveness. In each episode, each day you've discovered a different
0:48.0	meditation technique to help you on your journey to forgiveness. Forgiving is one of the most difficult yet
0:58.8	one of the most important things you do in life and it's a process. It's not as though you make up your mind to
1:07.8	forgive and in that moment all is forgiven. That can happen, but what is more likely to happen is that it takes some time
1:22.4	to get used to the idea of compassion for someone that you may have spent a lot of time and energy holding a grudge against. It may take some time to let go of animosity
1:40.7	towards a group or a situation that has harmed you.
1:45.0	Your mind and your thoughts and your actions have all rebelled and been resistance against something or someone or some situation where you are
1:58.0	unforgiving so it can take some time to reverse this process and you can reverse it.
2:06.6	Think of forgiveness in a similar way as you do, stretching into a yoga pose or sitting down to meditate for the first time.
2:19.4	If you try to force yourself to
2:25.0	to sit and meditate for half an hour,
2:29.0	you're going to notice that there's a lot of resistance in your body and mind whether you like it or not.
2:37.0	I really enjoy several yoga practitioners on Instagram who I follow and my favorite posts are when they will show
2:46.3	themselves in a yoga pose two to four or more years earlier and then they show themselves in a yoga pose today.
2:58.8	And it's amazing the difference and how their body has incredibly adapted to a certain pose.
3:09.6	That's really a difficult pose to do.
3:12.5	And through time and consistency and patients,
3:18.8	they have been able to train their mind and body to go deep into a difficult yoga assana. It's the same with meditation. The first time you sit down to meditate maybe that's you today
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