This is Episode 2282 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Mechley and welcome back to Day 5 of our series on healing relationships.

This has been a theme that has required you to experience, compassion, understanding,

unconditional love and empathy in a relationship that's difficult in your life.

In today's episode, you're going to be guided in a meditation to listen to your inner wisdom.

It's all too easy to get caught up emotionally when a relationship doesn't go so well.

You might find yourself reacting emotionally without thinking and regretting words you might say or actions you might do in a relationship.

Today, I introduce you to the letter I of the acronym we've been following along this week in a healing method.

You followed along with Dr. Greenberg, who is also the author of several books to help you manage anxiety.

She wrote an article about a four-step heal H-E-A-L method that you followed along to.

And a one-you experienced H-4 here to listen to the other person in the relationship you're healing.

E, to empathize with this person to try to understand how they're feeling and where their emotions are coming from.

A, to act, to act with kindness and love to let them know you support them and hear them or to gently let them go with compassion and well wishes.

Then you discovered in yesterday's episode L for love unconditional love where you allow a person to be as they are to understand who they are and to love them despite the difficulty you experience with them in a relationship.

Today, I'm adding on the letter I eventually will go through the entire acronym healing throughout this seven-day series I needed three more letters to share with you.

So I decided to add introspection to this method because that's what you do when you meditate.

And you allow your emotions to calm down. You allow your emotional dust to settle.

And then you tap into your reasoning center which is right at your prefrontal lobes and your brain.

This is also where your spiritual eye as it's referred to in yoga and meditation is located every single time you sit down to meditate.

I invite you to uplift your eyes and this creates a physiological response in your body where you feel your emotions uplift.

And this allows you to tap into your reasoning center of your brain. So you will be guided as you introspect in today's meditation.

A fellow meditator of yours reached out to me and she shared a message where she felt a lot of pressure from her parents and from a sister to live her life a certain way.

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