So I'm going to lead a meditation that's specifically geared to increase not only your positive

outlook but hopefully to move you towards flourishing in your life.

So thank you for listening to that.

And as always come to a very relaxed position.

See if you can maintain a relaxed but decent alignment which is simply try to keep your head from slouching in front of your chest.

And one way to do this is simply if you have that tendency just gently tilt your head back like you're looking at a very tall building which means you know like slightly lifting the chin up and the back

of the head tilted and just tilting the head back just a little bit 10 degrees

tends to make it very easy to keep the head in line with the

shoulders and the shoulders in line with the hips. I'm going to If throughout the meditation you feel physically uncomfortable and need to move just

ask yourself how could you move in such a way as to not create a sound to disrupt anybody sitting next to you and just assume they can hear pretty much anything so try to move if you must in a very very

quiet way so that even you don't hear the sound and they couldn't possibly.

If at any point you're just struggling during the meditation,

just relax, stop what you're doing and just sit comfortably.

Try to release any sense of having to do or get anywhere or accomplish anything.

All of these practices are just meant to be taken up in the spirit of

gently moving into an experience rather than learning by force or effort. You pick up all of the benefits of practice over time and relaxing into it rather than trying to achieve anything.

Definitely relieve yourself of any tendency to criticize or judge or evaluate.

You can use that if you must anywhere else in your life,

but in your meditation practice should be

the safest time for you internally where you absolutely refuse to judge yourself in any

way.

You are doing absolutely nothing wrong at this moment in time.

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