This is episode 2015 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you back to our series we're exploring this week, all about an important theme and that is forgiveness.

Forgiveness is one of the most important and most difficult things you can do and

it's an ongoing experience in our lives as you have been going through this week's

series you've had a challenge your challenge

is to gradually day by day step by step to take action to forgive this could be

when you settle down at night and you review your day and you think about

the times during the day when you felt a little animosity towards someone or resentful or irritated.

You might be doing two things.

You might be disappointed in yourself and so you might feel as though you're entitled

to feel this way because this situation or this person deserved it

or was so in the wrong. So you can feel your anger, spike and a sense of justification

for how you felt. You may have been harmed deeply and you feel a sense of

grief and sadness and confusion. In this case your focus is more on the other person.

You're thinking, why, how.

And it's so difficult to get closure when you don't know the answers to these questions.

So what I encourage you to do as you are midweek in our series,

and day by day you've been taking steps to forgive,

I encourage you to create a forgiveness ritual.

You could call it a cleanse.

You could call it a freedom ritual.

Because there's perhaps no greater feeling of freedom than your inner freedom.

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