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Hello, beautiful humans.

Thank you for joining me today.

I'm Megan Conner,

host of the Midlife Revolution podcast,

and this is another episode

in the series of How to Heal.

I wanted to share some of

the tools that I learned in

my healing from trauma in

the hopes that it can help

other people heal as well.

I am not a mental health professional,

so everything that I offer

here is just for informational purposes.

It's not intended as advice.

Today I want to talk about meditation.

Meditation is really just a

fancy word for thinking,

and a lot of people get

scared when they think

about meditation because

they think they're not good

at it and their attention wanders.

But the important thing

about meditation is to set

an intention of something

that you're going to meditate about,

and then if your mind wanders,

just lovingly correct

yourself back to the

intention of focusing on that one thing.

It is a practice and it does take time.

And you'll be a lot more

successful with meditation

if you set a specific time to meditate.

And you can even set

yourself a timer and say,

I have the intention to

meditate for 10 minutes.

Set yourself the timer, do your meditation,

and then move on with your day.

If you want to meditate for longer,

you can just build up to a

longer time as you go.

Some people don't like to

set a timer for meditation because

They just want to be able to

meditate until they're

finished with that

particular topic that

they're thinking about and then move on.

For me personally,

meditation works really

well for me just prior to

going to sleep and helps me

sort of clear my mind for the day.

And meditation also works

really well for me first

thing in the morning when

I'm trying to set an

intention about how I want the day to go.

I also meditate a little bit

before I'm about to have a

difficult conversation or a

difficult phone call or a

meeting that I know is

going to have some tension in it.

I try to envision how the

conversation is going to go.

I

set an intention for how I

want to set myself up for success,

and the things that I want

to focus on and what's most

important for me in those conversations.

So meditation is really just

something that you have to

practice and get good at.

And it's one of those things

that we have to set aside

time for just like

practicing anything else.

I think setting aside

specific times is really good for it.

And I like to couple my

meditation with journaling

because that helps me to

organize my thoughts and to

sort of get them out of my head.

It's especially helpful if

I've had a really busy day

or if I've got a busy day coming up.

I like to meditate and

journal before I go to bed.

So that way my thoughts

don't just keep racing with

all the things that I have

to do or trying to unpack

conversations that I've had

during the day.

One of my favorite

meditations lately that I've been doing,

I will share with you,

I like to just ask myself the question,

who am I?

And this is also a way for

me to just come back to center.

If I've had some experiences

that are making me feel unbalanced,

or if I've had a lot of

difficult emotions to

unpack during the day,

or if I'm particularly

activated or angry about something,

then meditation on who am I

can help me get back to

center and sort of remind

myself of what my values

are and what's important to

me as a human being.

So what I do is I like to

lie on my bed with my hands on my chest.

I've done a lot of chakra meditation,

if you don't know what that is.

It is part of the Buddhist

and Hindu practices where

there are different centers

of the body associated with

different colors.

And the heart chakra is green,

and that is the one that

resonates the most with me.

It's the one that I feel is

strongest with me.

And so I put my hands on my

chest where my heart chakra is,

and I think about the color

green radiating from my

entire body as I ask myself the question,

Who am I?

And for me,

what comes up first is that I

am a mother.

And my most important

responsibility in this time

of my life is to show up in

the best possible way for my children.

And even though some of them

are adults and out of the house,

I still always, of course,

want them to have happy,

peaceful and successful lives.

And so I want to show up for

them in the best possible

way by being the best

version of myself so that

when they have difficulties

or problems that I can look

at it with compassion and

help them to come up with a

solution that works the best for them.

So when I think about who I am,

I think first of being a mother.

And I think of when during this meditation,

I think of the locations

where all of my children are.

And I think about the light

that radiates from them as human beings.

And they come up like little

pinpoints all over the

country or the world,

depending on if they're traveling.

And so I like to zoom out

just a little bit.

I think about where I am in

my home and I zoom out from

my home to my little neighborhood.

And I envision all of the

places that I go and run my errands.

I envision the places where I walk and

And the places where I

exercise and the places

where I show up to meet my friends.

And I think about the little

spots of light in those

locations when I have

visited them and when I've

been there with people that I love.

And then I like to zoom out

and see my whole city.

and think about all of the

people and the places that

I love within my city and

then I like to zoom out

again and I like to think

about the country and the

places that I visited and

traveled and the beautiful

things that I've seen all

across the country and then

I like to zoom out even

farther so that I'm

completely away from the

earth and I see the world

and I see all the places

where the ocean touches the

borders of the land and I

think about the world that I live in

And I think about how I'm

connected to the people who

live in the world as well.

And as I zoom out and I

think about outer space and

the ever-expanding universe,

I realize that the earth

and everything in it is

made of the same elements

that the ever-expanding

universe is made of.

And I think about the fact that I, too,

am made up of those elements.

And I like to think of it as stardust.

I am made of stardust.

And when I think about the

infinity of the universe,

I realize that infinity and

that ability for ever expanding

lives within me because I am

made of stardust.

And I remind myself that I

can always expand, I can always grow,

and I can always change.

And as I contemplate the

fact that the entire

universe is made of

stardust and that stardust lives in me,

I also realize that every

human being on the planet

who has ever lived or who ever will live

is also made of the same stardust.

And in that way,

I am connected to every

human being that has ever

lived or ever will live.

I am part of the human family.

And the human family is part of me.

And as I come back down to earth,

back down to my country,

back down to my city,

back down to my home,

I feel that connection.

I feel the connection with the earth,

with the universe,

and with all of the human

beings on the planet.

And I remember my purpose

here is to leave this place

better than I found it and

to use my humanity to

connect with the rest of humanity.

It helps bring me back to center.

It helps me remember my

purpose and to find balance in my life.

And I hope that you can find

a meditation that reminds

me of who you are and what

your values are.

And when you find it,

leave it in the comments so

that the community can

share it all together.

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As always,

be kind to yourself and I hope

to see you again soon.