Welcome to Meditation Oasis. This is Mary Maddox. You can visit us at MeditationOasis.com.

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The theme of today's guided meditation is letting go. Actually letting go is an important

part of all of our meditations. It doesn't have to do with letting go of thoughts or feelings

in the sense that we no longer have them. It has to do with letting go of resistance to

our experience as it naturally unfolds. It has to do with letting go of an attempt to

manipulate our experience to try to change what we feel or to try to hold on to some

particular experience. So during the meditation if you notice any resistance or any attempt

to manipulate, just let that go. This meditation can be done sitting or lying down, getting

into a comfortable position. And now close your eyes. When you close your eyes naturally

become more aware of what's going on inside you. Your attention goes within. All sorts

of experiences are happening. The mind may be busy with thoughts. There may be

some emotions that are present. You'll be hearing sounds around you. The body has

all sorts of sensations going on. You'll feel sensations in your body. It's noticing all

of that and not trying to do anything about it. Bring your awareness to your breathing. Your

breathing is going on effortlessly, spontaneously. Everything that you experience is happening in

that same, spontaneous way. Thoughts coming and going, emotions, all of your experience happens

effortlessly. And the mind makes commentaries on the experience, evaluates, judges what's

happening. Sometimes that can be very subtle. Perhaps you'll notice sometimes that there's

some resistance to some experience, some feeling that things should be different than they

are. Letting that go, not resisting any experience. Sometimes a pleasant experience will

come. And you may notice a tendency to try to hold on, to try to keep a particular experience

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