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I Am Gentle With Myself in Every Season: Self-Compassion Meditation · Meditations for Inner Peace

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  SPEAKER_01: Let everything you've been holding just rest for a moment.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_01: Find a position that feels easy.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: Let your body arrive.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: Don't change your breath.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just notice it arriving and leaving.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_01: And again, just noticing and letting go.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: Let your breath find its own rhythm now.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_01: Just notice.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_01: You don't need to change it.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: A way of seeing your life that might feel unfamiliar.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_01: Imagine yourself walking slowly along a path through a forest.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: The trees are mid-turning, some still green, some flushed amber and gold, some already bare, all of it exactly as it should be.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: You walk without any particular direction, just the path and the light filtering through and the quiet around you.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: As you walk, you begin to remember some of the seasons of your own life, not the productive ones, the other ones.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: Look back at those seasons with gentleness.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: You were not failing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You were in your winter.
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  SPEAKER_01: Winter doesn't apologize for not being spring.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_01: A tree doesn't fail because it loses its leaves.
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  SPEAKER_01: Something was always happening, even when it couldn't be seen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some brought visible growth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some brought rest that was quietly necessary.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: Some brought pain that taught you things you didn't ask to learn.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of it was yours.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of it was real.