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Hello and welcome back to Wake Me Up.

We're here today for a meditation on this week's theme,

seeing and accepting the truth about ourselves.

Yesterday, we talked about why it's so hard, but also so important, to accept the truth about who we are.

In this meditation, we're going to put it into practice.

We'll look at ourselves with a lens of compassion

by stepping into the shoes of who we were as a child.

It will help us improve our ability to see ourselves clearly and to accept ourselves without judgment or shame.

The more willing you are to let hard truths about yourself

be seen, the faster you can change them,

and the quicker you'll become a more evolved version of yourself.

So let's go ahead and get started.

You can begin by finding a comfortable position that you'd like to meditate in.

I recommend that you meditate sitting up, but we've all got different preferences and

different spaces, so do whatever works best for you.

And once you've found that position,

allow yourself to relax.

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