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Speaker 1: Approache production. Good morning, I'm Jennifer Cray, host of your

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Speaker 1: Morning Mantra. Today's meditation explores choice and how small decisions

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Speaker 1: quietly build our futures. Your Morning Mantra, Today's decisions shape

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Speaker 1: tomorrow's reality. Close your eyes or lower your gaze. Relax

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Speaker 1: your eyes, relax your ears, relax your jaw, relax your

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Speaker 1: shoulders down and bring your attention to your breath. Allow

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Speaker 1: the events of your day to run through your mind,

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Speaker 1: from when you woke up to this very moment, drawing

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Speaker 1: your breath down into your belly. Each moment brings with

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Speaker 1: it countless decisions, big and small. Small choices repeated over time,

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Speaker 1: become patterns. Patterns become habits. Habits become lifestyles, and lifestyles

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Speaker 1: become our life. Every decision we make today influences and

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Speaker 1: becomes our future. With every decision we make, a choice

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Speaker 1: today is an invitation to pause and find the motivation

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Speaker 1: behind the decision. Which choice reflects who I want to be?

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Speaker 1: Which choice is more aligned with how I want to

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Speaker 1: show up? Does this decision come from love and joy

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Speaker 1: or does it come from some other emotion? Choose what

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Speaker 1: feels aligned, what feels possible, what brings most hope? Which

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Speaker 1: future you would love to be In today's mantra, Today's

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Speaker 1: decisions shape tomorrow's reality. Repeat to yourself, either out loud

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Speaker 1: or in your mind, today's decisions shape tomorrow's reality. What

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Speaker 1: can you learn from this? Now? Think of three things

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Speaker 1: that happened today that you can be grateful for. Say

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Speaker 1: thank you, and then let go, releasing the day and

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Speaker 1: all thoughts that came with it. Calling your energy back

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Speaker 1: to this moment, bringing your attention to your breath, breathing

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Speaker 1: in and out of your nose, drawing your breath down

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Speaker 1: into your belly where there are no thoughts at all.

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Speaker 1: See you tomorrow for your morning mantra. You can also

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Speaker 1: deepen your practice with me on Inside Timer. Find the

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Speaker 1: link in the show notes below