Permission

Permission

You have my permission to disregard the meditation I wrote and do something else:

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Walk along the side of a stream endlessly
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Go through a laundry list of affirmations in your head, examining and discarding each one
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Planning your to do list
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Trying (and failing) to just watch your breath and think no thoughts
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Criticize yourself for doing the meditation all wrong
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Think about how little money you make and how impossible change feels
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Remind yourself how much you have changed and progressed in the last 90+ days
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Wonder why you refuse to call anyone about your medical care
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Determine yourself hopeless, or flawless
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Open your mind to the many ways that you may have been right
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Beat yourself up over all the ways that you have been wrong
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Say one more minute, one more minute, one more minute
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Allowing yourself to remember how Little you really Have To be doing
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Remember how for now, you can be doing whatever you want and can afford, and no one is on your back
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Reflect on how beautiful is the world and the day really, in spite of war and fascism
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Reflect on how this world more than ever needs your mindfulness
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Wait for the bell to sound

Ring-ing-ing-ing-ing-nnggg-tsssk

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Open your eyes and begin again
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Grab a pen and write down your realization or new plan
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Rise and greet the sun, the room, your companions, your mess, your cat
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Remind yourself to try to remember this peace throughout the day
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Wish you had true freedom, not just this limited form
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Getting back to work, and looking forward to the next meditation

Things you have my permission to try in the next meditation:

Liking yourself
Liking your life
Liking your neighbors
Liking your family
Liking your solitude

Praying for peace