Breathe in loving kindness for yourself, those you love, and for people all around the planet - through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with her poem, " What's It Like Being You?".

What’s It Like Being You? By Julie Potiker

What’s it like being You?

Cradling the smooth stones, chunks of jasper, garnet and opal

Stacks of pale grey branches, hiding places for otters, snakes and trout

What’s it’s like being you?

Sometimes a mere trickle

Sometimes a rushing torrent

At the mercy of the snow pack above

Each year unique

A place of refuge

Peace to my heart

What’s it like to be you?

Glittering in the sunshine

Blanketed in ice and snow

Always moving

Never Stopping

What’s it like to be you, river, what’s it like to be you?

For the elk who water there,

What’s it like to be you?

To be beheld with such wonder by me

To be searching for food constantly

To be so majestic

To be hunted for sport

To be hunted for food What’s it like to be you?

To grow a huge rack of antlers every year, Just to have them drop to the ground each spring, snapped up by lucky antler shed hunters to make chandeliers.

What’s it like to be you, Elk?

What’s it like to be you?

To be so loved by me.

-What’s It Like Being You? 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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