When was the last time you thought about your ancestors? This guided meditation by Indigenous scholar Yuria Celidwen will help you connect to your heritage and reap the potent benefits of remembering your roots.How To Do This Practice:<ol>
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Arrive and Center: Find a comfortable position. Close your eyes if you’d like. Place your attention at the center of your chest. Notice how your chest expands as you inhale, pauses, and gently releases as you exhale. Rest in that pause between breaths.</li>
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Open the Heart Space: Imagine your chest softening and opening. With each breath, sense a feeling of spaciousness there. Let this space become an anchor to return to.</li>
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Invite Your Lineage: In that pause of breath, bring awareness to your ancestors. Elders of the past, present, and those yet to come. Acknowledge the richness and complexity of your lineage. </li>
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Remember Origin Stories: Call to mind the stories of your elders and their elders before them. Picture their journeys, the lands they once touched, and the lives they carried forward. Imagine their footsteps across the earth, leading to where you stand today.</li>
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Connect Land and Heart: Visualize the lands your ancestors belonged to. The soils, waters, and skies that sustained them. Bring those lands into the center of your chest, merging them with your breath, your heart, and your pause. Feel the connection ripple from them to you, and from you back to them.</li>
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Rest in Home and Belonging: Let the word home echo silently in your heart. With each breath, feel this home expand outward—into belonging, togetherness, and care for all living beings and for the Earth itself. Rest in that pulse of vastness and possibility.</li>
</ol>Scroll down for a transcription of this episode.Today’s Happiness Break Guide: DR. YURIA CELIDWEN is an indigenous scholar of contemplative studies, and author of the book, <a href="https://www.soundstrue.com/products/flourishing-kin?srsltid=AfmBOoqkuMiNsQ4S0g-V-juqEJLCyY6WWHcpTmqZGb4SFwryAGnDxJa9">Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Foundations For Collective Well-Being</a>.Learn more about Dr. Celidwen: <a href="https://www.yuriacelidwen.com/">https://www.yuriacelidwen.com/</a>Related Happiness Break episodes:Where Did You Come From: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2y9uyjj6">https://tinyurl.com/2y9uyjj6</a>How To Tune Into Water’s Restorative Power: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2k6ybzrs">https://tinyurl.com/2k6ybzrs</a>How To Ground Yourself in Nature: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/25ftdxpm">https://tinyurl.com/25ftdxpm</a>Related Science of Happiness episodes:Are You Following Your Inner Compass: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2bh8vvj">https://tinyurl.com/y2bh8vvj</a>How Water Heals: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/utuhrnh3">https://tinyurl.com/utuhrnh3</a>Follow us on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/scienceofhappinesspod/">@ScienceOfHappinessPod</a>We’d love to hear about your experience with this practice! Share your thoughts at happinesspod@berkeley.edu or use the hashtag #happinesspod.Find us on Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p9h5aap">https://tinyurl.com/2p9h5aap</a>Help us share Happiness Break! Leave a 5-star review and share this link:<a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p9h5aap"> https://tinyurl.com/2p9h5aap</a>Transcription: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycy9xazc">https://tinyurl.com/ycy9xazc</a>

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