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Speaker 1: Approache production.

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Speaker 2: Good morning. I'm Jennifer Cray, host of your morning Mantra.

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Speaker 2: Today's meditation explores our emotions and how we can practice

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Speaker 2: healthy mental health by learning to name, experience, and use

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Speaker 2: our emotions. Today's mantra, I honor my emotions and I

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Speaker 2: regulate with care.

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Speaker 1: Let's begin if it's safe to do so. Close your

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Speaker 1: eyes or lower your gaze. Relax your eyes, relax your ears,

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Speaker 1: relax your jaw, relax your shoulders.

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Speaker 2: Down, and bring your attention to your breath, drawing your

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Speaker 2: breath into your heart. To be human is to experience emotion, joy, fear, anger, grief, love.

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Speaker 2: When emotions arise without awareness, without discernment, they can become

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Speaker 2: stuck inside of us, causing unease and disease in the body.

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Speaker 2: The state of our mental health depends on how we

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Speaker 2: handle the emotion. We can become aware of the emotion,

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Speaker 2: call them by name. We can allow experience of the

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Speaker 2: emotion with care and deliberation, without identifying with it, without

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Speaker 2: letting it stay and reside within us. We can use

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Speaker 2: its message to guide our next actions and choices. We

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Speaker 2: can pause and integrate. This is regulation healthy mental health hygiene.

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Speaker 2: Today's mantra, I honor my emotions, and I regulate with care.

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Speaker 2: Repeat to yourself, either out loud or in your mind.

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Speaker 2: I honor my emotions, and I regulate with care. Bringing

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Speaker 2: your awareness back to your breath, breathing in and out

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Speaker 2: of your heart space. May you be happy, may you

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Speaker 2: be well, May you be free from stress, worry, fear,

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Speaker 2: and anxiety. And may your whole life be truly blessed.

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Speaker 2: Bringing your awareness back to the space around you and

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Speaker 2: slowly opening your eyes to increase self awareness and growth,

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Speaker 2: I invite you to listen to this evening's reflection. You

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Speaker 2: can also deepen your practice with me on Inside Timer

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Speaker 2: find the link below. In the show notes