This is episode of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you as you give yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.

In today's episode, we complete the series we've been exploring this week all about

one very important quality, and that is forgiveness.

It's one of the most difficult and most important qualities you can acquire.

And as you've explored this week's series, you have had a challenge that you've been focusing on each day.

Your challenge has been to take one small step on the path to forgiveness.

So when you sit down today and get ready to meditate. Take this insight with you into your meditation.

And I'll be guiding you through a process, which I think is one of the most important things

you could do for yourself each week, and that is to reflect on your week to notice

what worked really well for you your big wins and to notice the times when you

when you struggled without judgment without any shame or blame,

just simply notice what you would have done differently,

what you learned, your valuable lessons.

And we often don't do this,

and then we wonder why we have these same bad habits. Why are they so hard to let go of? Why are they so hard to break? When you reflect on what your stress triggers are and how you responded and what you could do better

to improve.

You're like an athlete.

Athletes don't improve by simply randomly going through their sports without focus, without noticing, oh, I should have done this,

or, oh, I could have done that better. So this is how I encourage you to approach your weekly review

as you sit down to meditate. And I'll share a little insight about forgiveness as you

finish up this week's series. And that is that forgiveness is so much about doing something good without anything attached to it because usually you're

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