Julie Potiker leads you in this classic loving kindness meditation focusing on the words - may you be safe, may you be happy, may you be healthy, and may you live you life with ease. She completes the meditation with her poem, "New".

"New", by Julie Potiker

Bundle swaddled snuggly

sleeps soundly

eyes half moons

delicate rose lips

upturned dough of nose

Miniature hands

slender fingers

gossamer nails

I will love you forever escapes my lips

coming from a soft place, ancestral place, dropped in and breathed through my heart.

At that moment, I feel the truth of it, the threshold created by my first grandchild that I gratefully glide across-this sacred bond, a link in the chain traveling back in time and forward forever.

-New, by Julie Potiker.

Find out more about using mindfulness in everyday life through Julie's books, "SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". Both are available on Amazon.com.

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