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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 compassion and the difference between

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Speaker 1: carrying and carrying too much. Your Morning mantra, I can

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Speaker 1: hold compassion without fixing. Let's begin, if it's safe to

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Speaker 1: do so. 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, drawing

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Speaker 1: your breath down into your heart. Some of us believe

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Speaker 1: the caring deeply for others means solving their problems, owning

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Speaker 1: their pain as if it were our own. Some of

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Speaker 1: us try to carry another's responsibility, thinking it will heal them.

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Speaker 1: Some things are not ours to fix. Deeply caring can

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Speaker 1: look like letting others feel their pain and holding their

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Speaker 1: hand as they do. Deeply caring can just be listening

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Speaker 1: to issues and problems without the need for solving. Notice

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Speaker 1: where the urge to step in or take over is present.

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Speaker 1: What would it mean to deeply care while keeping boundaries?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we need to be strong stand with others while

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Speaker 1: they do their own fixing their own healing. Today's mantra,

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Speaker 1: I can hold compassion without fixing. Repeat to yourself, either

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Speaker 1: out loud or in your mind. I can hold compassion

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Speaker 1: without fixing, bringing your awareness back to your breath, breathing

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Speaker 1: in and out of your heart space. May you be happy,

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Speaker 1: May you be well, May you be free from stress, worry, fear,

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Speaker 1: and anxiety. And may your whole life be truly blessed.

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Speaker 1: Bringing your awareness back to the space around you and

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Speaker 1: slowly opening your eyes to increase self awareness and growth,

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Speaker 1: I invite you to listen to this evening's reflection. You

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Speaker 1: can also deepen your practice with me on insight tim

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Speaker 1: or find the link below In the show notes