This is episode 1,785.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you as we continue midweek through our series on forgiveness.

Throughout this series you have discovered a different meditation technique each day

to help you cultivate the quality of forgiveness.

And I've challenged you this week to focus on one way that you can cultivate forgiveness that may be by forgiving someone or by forgiving a situation or whatever it is that you may be holding on to as a grudge or a grievance and focus on just this one aspect of forgiveness this week.

Start simple. The more you can begin to forgive smaller grievances, the more you will build

your forgiveness muscle, so to speak and go on to forgive bigger grievances in your life so

start small. Now as you do your meditation technique today, you will be focusing on your heart.

Your heart is. on your heart.

heart is located at what is considered to be your fourth chakra. If you're not familiar with chakras, no worries. Chakras are considered to be

energy centers in your body that harbor your emotions and your memories, your

feelings, including your grievances. the heart harbors the qualities of love and compassion and gratitude.

And so and so one of the best ways to focus on forgiveness is to enhance these aspects of yourself.

As you consider forgiving someone or something, you may think that it may be difficult for you to draw out these qualities

because you may have really hard feelings.

In fact, the qualities of hatred or anger and resentment

may be how you're feeling. So the idea of switching over to love and compassion and

gratitude can seem insurmountable. Forgiveness is possible even in extenuating circumstances. I'm

sure you've heard of people who have forgiven others who've caused them great harm.

Maybe they have even taken or killed loved ones and people are able to forgive such ultimate grievances and you can too.

It takes practice that's why I recommend you do start small as I mentioned.

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