Balanced Mind With Julie Potiker

In this end-of-the-year guided meditation led by Julie Potker you will use your breath to breathe in healing, awareness, and gratitude. She completes the mediation with the poem, "For the End of the Year", by Donna Ashworth.'For the End of the Year", by Donna Ashworth.Why do we start a new year, with promises to improve?Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure?I say, the end of a year, should be filled with congratulation,for all we survived.And I say a new year should start with promisesto be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear,as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.And if we are to promise more, let’s pledgeto rest, before our bodies force us.Let’s pledge to stop, and drink in life as it happens.Let’s pledge to strip away a layer of perfectionto reveal the flawed and wondrous humanitywe truly are inside.Why start another year, gifted to us on this earth,with demands on our already over-strained humanity.When we could be learning to accept,that we were always supp