Embrace Forgiveness Through Meditation with Athena Desai

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Immerse yourself in a transformative meditation experience designed to help you release the past and embrace forgiveness. This episode invites you to explore the power of breath and intention in your healing journey.

• Introduction to the benefits of meditation for emotional healing 
• Guided meditation focused on letting go of past experiences 
• Techniques for body awareness and breathing deeply 
• Setting intentions to enhance your meditation practice 
• Understanding the role of forgiveness in emotional freedom 
• The importance of gratitude in transforming past pain into wisdom 

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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome to the Morning Formation that I had,
athena Desai, if you got anopportunity to listen to her
episode.
She is a trauma specialist anda very holistic spiritual
professional and, just out ofthe graciousness of her heart,
she has provided two 20-minuterecording sessions for our
audience out there.
If you would like to meditateutilizing these two recordings,

(00:42):
all you got to do is downloadthis and then, from there, find
yourself a safe place and closeyour eyes and listen to the
words.
Again, I have two of these, soI'll upload each one separately.
Please give me some feedback onthis.
I know she would like to hearit as well, but I hope you can
enjoy.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Hello everybody but I hope you can enjoy.
Hello everybody, today'smeditation is about letting go
of the past.
We'll mark the beginning, themiddle and the end of the 10

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minutes.
There will be long pauses onpurpose.
Try to let go of what you thinkyou should be doing in those
times.
It's really time to practiceallowing thoughts to arise and

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allowing them to move.
You can always return to thesensation of your breath, but I
would choose one place to focuson either the feeling of air
coming in and out of yournostrils or the rise and fall of
your belly your nostrils or therise and fall of your belly.

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I would also make sure thatyour spine is straight, whether
you're sitting or lying down,and that you can breathe freely.
And that you can breathe freely.
Let's begin, we'll start, bytaking three deep breaths.

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Try to breathe all the way intoyour belly, into your pelvic
bowl, and have the air come allthe way up into your collarbones
.
And then reverse that processand let's do a little scan of

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the body, starting from thecrown of your head, starting
from the crown of your head, asif you had a light that was
shining down through each layer,each level, all the way down to
the soles of your feet and justsee if there are any places

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where you're holding tensionthat you might be open to
incorporating some breath inthat space, allowing it to
release a little.
Before we return to focusing onthe breath, I invite you to set

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an intention for this practiceand return to focusing your mind

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either on your nose or yourbelly the sensation of air
coming in and out.
Just observing it gives you asense of being alive.

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It can be challenging to observesomething that we feel like we
should have some control over.
Sometimes we do, sometimes wedon't.

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The active observing helps giveus more choice about how we use
our energy and our attention.
So the first invitation of thismeditation is to see if you can

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be gentle with yourself.
As you pay attention to yourbreath.
Your mind will wander.

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That is natural.
Natural.
See if, as you refocus on thesensation, you can do so with A

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smooth, light energy.
Thank you.

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If you notice yourself tryingto control your breath, that's
okay.
See if you can let that go,without story, without judgment,
and try imagining that you candrop your mind into the space

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that you're focusing on, justobserving, without eating it to

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be any different, any differentas if you're sitting on the bank

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of a river just watching it goby.
When we want to let go of thepast, sometimes we want to do so
with great force.
In this moment we're going totry doing it with gentleness and

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just giving ourselves somegrace that there were reasons
that we held on so tightly to amemory, to a memory, to a hurt.

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It's okay.
Just breathe In and out is tobreathe into a feeling of

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forgiveness, and this is goingto be for yourself.
You don't have to know whatit's for.
That forgiveness is another wayof bringing love to yourself to

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what happened, what happened.
If it's a hard feeling to stepinto, think of something that

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you love fully, with someneutrality Maybe that's an
animal or a place and justnotice how your body feels when

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you think about that thing.

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Find something to forgiveyourself for from any time in
the past.
I forgive myself for not doingbetter.

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It can be as simple as that.
You can use that as a mantra.
You can say it once and thenreturn to the breathing.

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Just see what arises from that.
You, if you're feeling tensionin your body, try breathing into

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that space.
The more challenging it is, themore helpful it is to do your
exhale from your mouth.
Let's see if you can return tojust noticing the sensation.

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Return to just noticing thesensation, air coming in and out
of your nose, belly moving upand down.

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The third invitation is to findsomething that you're grateful
for From the past.
This might be challenging.
You could also choose somethingthat you're grateful for from

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the present.
Gratitude is one of the biggestgame changers in terms of
healing what's been andtransforming what was into
wisdom and medicine that we canuse for ourselves and for others

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.
Finding that gratitude I amgrateful that I've learned so

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much.
It can be as simple as that.
You can use it once and returnto your breathing.
But this is how we'll end thisparticular meditation Taking

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three deep breaths to close, asdeep and as long as they can be,
and if it feels good to you, Ilike to end with my hands in
prayer position and a slight bowTowards you, your past, your

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intentions, your forgiveness,your gratitude.
The light in me bows to thelight in you, namaste.