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Letting Go & Acceptance

Meeting what has actually happened, rather than the version you keep arguing with. Slow, and worth it.

10 meditations, newest first.

IPM 108 · Healing & Self-Compassion · 25 July 2026 · 10:25The Second Arrow: A Meditation to Reduce Your SufferingLife fires the first arrow. We fire the next thirty. And unlike life, we never miss.Listen to this meditation IPM 103 · Sleep & Bedtime · 28 May 2026 · 5:51Evening Meditation: Letting the Day Settle DownThe day is still in your jaw and your shoulders. Six minutes to put it down by the door instead of carrying it up to bed.Listen to this meditation IPM 93 · 7 March 2026 · 16:01When Letting Go Feels Impossible, Try This InsteadTry to let go of a thought right now. Really try. It is still there, and now you are annoyed about it as well.Listen to this meditation IPM 86 · 2 November 2025 · 11:35Trust Your Path: A Gentle Meditation for Times of ChangeFor when you have been doing everything right and nothing seems to be moving. Progress is often invisible while it is happening.Listen to this meditation IPM 80 · 27 July 2025 · 10:52The Open Hand of Allowing: A Meditation for Releasing AttachmentsMake a fist round the thing you are clinging to, then open your hand. Notice it does not fly off. That is the whole lesson.Listen to this meditation IPM 78 · 6 July 2025 · 10:50The Freedom of Forgiveness: Letting Go For YourselfForgiveness is not for them. You do it to stop drinking the poison and waiting for someone else to feel ill.Listen to this meditation IPM 75 · 19 May 2025 · 12:26Self Acceptance, the Zen WayZen does not fix your life. It stops you needing to. A short talk and a sit, for anyone tired of working on themselves.Listen to this meditation IPM 54 · 8 March 2024 · 13:31That Awesome Do Nothing Meditation – Reduce Stress and Deeper InsightNo goal here. Nothing to achieve. Not even relaxing, because that would be doing something. Easier said than done, and I know it.Listen to this meditation IPM 41 · 13 November 2023 · 16:57The Simple Zen Path to Letting GoAs a boy I filled my pockets with pebbles off Perranporth beach, and I would not let anyone near them. Not even to call them stones.Listen to this meditation IPM 31 · 25 July 2023 · 11:49Embracing Change Through Nature’s GuidanceThe forest of uncertainty, which is a grand name for everything you do not yet know. Twelve minutes of walking into it anyway.Listen to this meditation

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