Guided Forgiveness Meditation
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 1 March 2014
⏱️ 11 minutes
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2014-02-26-Guided Forgiveness Meditation - a short cut from the end of the "A Forgiving Heart" talk
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| 0:00.0 | So, we'll close with a forgiveness meditation, as you close your eyes, so you're breathing |
| 0:14.7 | in and just feeling a sense of the breath opening, like even in a cellular way opening to |
| 0:21.5 | receive that you're kind of expanding, loosening, feeling the life and the energy in your |
| 0:29.5 | body. And then with the out breath, just resting and settling and just sensing the |
| 0:36.4 | space inside and around you, stillness, resting. See, inhale and open and flade, expand, yield, |
| 0:50.0 | and exhale and just rest, sensing the space within and around you, letting everything float. |
| 1:00.9 | You can even sense it if you just take a certain part of your body, like your hands, just |
| 1:05.7 | inhaling and feel the joints loosen and open, the hands soften. And exhale and just let |
| 1:13.6 | the sensations float in awareness. And you can feel it in the heart, if you inhale and |
| 1:26.1 | just yield and open, just feeling the aliveness, the vulnerability that's there on the in-breath. |
| 1:35.0 | And on the out-breath, just letting me, letting this life float in something larger. |
| 1:43.8 | We begin the forgiveness practice by sensing where you might have caused harm to another person. |
| 2:01.2 | Just taking a moment because we all have places in our life where we have injured others with |
| 2:06.9 | our words, our reactivity, our neglect, our anger. |
| 2:23.7 | You can imagine and sense that person and the hurt that's there. |
| 2:32.4 | Staying right here, breathing and just letting yourself feel the realness of another |
| 2:37.4 | pain. You might mentally whisper the person's name and just say, I see and feel the pain I've |
| 2:51.5 | caused you and I ask your forgiveness, please forgive me. |
| 3:10.9 | But yourself keep feeling that breath and staying in contact with your own vulnerability, |
| 3:16.7 | whether it's remorse, sorrow, and again whispering the person's name. |
| 3:26.3 | I see and feel the pain I've caused you and I ask your forgiveness, please forgive me. |
| 3:46.0 | I'm turning the attention to yourself, sensing if you're holding against yourself for hurting |
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