You are listening to Episode 904. Welcome to your daily meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley

and I'm so excited that you have made it through this entire emergency meditation series.

In today's episode, you're going to be guided in a meditation

to help you manage grief. So if you've lost someone recently or you feel like there's been

a significant change in your life, that maybe you're mourning mourning that change, a loss of a job.

Maybe you discovered you have a serious health ailment, whatever it may be.

This is a meditation series to help you process that grief.

And this episode underscores more than any of the other episodes

the importance of how imperative it is to prepare for an emergency before it happens.

Because when you're in that moment of grief, it's very difficult to find the

energy to read a book about how to manage grief or to find the meditation series that helps

you to manage grief or to Google support or tips on how to manage

grief. You just don't usually have the energy. And if you have been with someone or maybe you've

experienced this yourself where you are experiencing grief or the other person is and you hand them a book or

someone hands you a book or some music or something to listen to, you kind of stare at them

wondering why they would give you this as if you had time at this moment in your life

to sit down and read about grief or

trauma people have the best intentions and you may have found that you've done this to people as

well and you had the best of intentions we all want to to give advice and support, but at that moment,

somebody who's processing grief doesn't have the bandwidth to process anything else, to take in anything else,

because grief is so all-consuming. So this is also a walking meditation because every single Saturday,

if you're following this in sequence, this is for a Saturday, although I always say you can

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