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Speaker 1: Approte production Good morning. I'm Jennifer Craig, host of Your

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Speaker 1: Morning Mantra. Today's meditation explores when our excuses might be

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Speaker 1: doing harm instead of good. Let's begin your morning mantra

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Speaker 1: I show up and see if it's safe to do so.

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Speaker 1: Close your eyes or lower your gaze. Relax your eyes,

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Speaker 1: relax your ears, relax your job, Relax your shoulders down,

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Speaker 1: and bring your attention to your breath, drawing your breath

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Speaker 1: down into your gut. Sometimes we allow our sickness or

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Speaker 1: our brokenness to stop us. We don't exercise because of

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Speaker 1: an injury. Instead, we could exercise around the injury, thinking

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Speaker 1: of what we can do instead of what we can't.

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Speaker 1: When we don't exercise due to a headache, it could

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Speaker 1: be what our body needs to release the tension. Maybe

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Speaker 1: we don't show up because we're feeling down. However, being

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Speaker 1: social and productive might snap us out of a depressive

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Speaker 1: and sad state. Sometimes the things we excuse ourselves from

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Speaker 1: it are the very things we need. Not many of

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Speaker 1: us have regretted or workout or showing up an invitation

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Speaker 1: to show up and see before we excuse ourselves altogether.

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Speaker 1: Today's mantra I show up and see repeat to yourself,

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Speaker 1: either out loud or in your mind. I show up

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Speaker 1: Morning Mantra