Building Confidence and Inner Wisdom

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have. It's called Stillness in the Storms Podcast. And it's a podcast that helps you to get a little inner

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peace when you need it most and you probably have it least.

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And it's just... Seeing life from a different perspective. And I'm also choosing not to have any

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over to StevenWebb.uk. You are awesome. Settle in and enjoy the meditation. I won't disturb you

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after the meditation.

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Just make yourself comfortable. Just allow your body to relax. Shake out your arms a little. And

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just imagine a wave coming down over you from the top to bottom. Just recognising any bits of tension within

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your body.

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And when you notice any of these bits of tension, just imagine them fading away.

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And bring your awareness to your breath.

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I'm breathing in.

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I'm breathing out.

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You don't have to do anything with your breath.

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Just recognise that it's happening.

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The same as everything else inside and on the outside. It is all just happening.

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You may notice your breath slowing down gently.

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I'm breathing in. I'm

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breathing out.

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And you may notice some thoughts coming in your head. Just recognise them as a thought and do nothing with

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them.

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Just like a leaf floating down the river, you can recognise the leaf. You can enjoy the nature

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of that. It's just floating by. And

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you don't have to do anything with a leaf. Just the same as you don't have to do anything with

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your breath. You

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don't have to do anything with your thoughts.

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Just allow it to come and go.

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Just the same as every breath comes.

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And then it goes.

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And you're constantly making way for new ones.

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Making way for a new thought to come along.

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A new feeling. A new breath.

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It's all the same with a subtle difference.

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Just the same as the sound coming in,

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Just like my words and my voice.

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My words are just coming and going.

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And even with meditation you don't have to do anything with it. You can just allow the meditation to be

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what it is. Just

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sitting here, observing, becoming aware.

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Just allowing everything to be just as it is.

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You're not going to stop the thoughts coming. Any different than you're going to stop the breath coming.

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You're not going to stop the little bit of wanting to do something, the intention.

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You're not going to stop the sounds coming in or the sensations coming up through the body.

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These things will keep happening to us.

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When we learn to just sit and

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be at one with it all and not have to do anything with it,

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We naturally remain calm.

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We naturally become wiser. We

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have deeper insights

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When we're not trying to push everything away, trying to force a type of meditation.

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We just allow it to be what it is,

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Just a pure awareness.

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And as your awareness moves from one thing to another, from a thought to the breath, to a

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sound, to an emotion, to my voice,

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it'll keep fleeting from one thing to another. Just allow it to do it and just smile.

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As if you're entertained by

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it. And recognise it is what it is.

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It's what the mind and the body does best.

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And from this place we have a deeper wisdom. A wisdom that we can respond throughout the day.

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That we can know with this deep insight that we have a little gap and a little more extra time

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to make the wiser, deeper decisions.

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Just by taking a breath,

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you can then analyse what's really happening in the moment. And

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you can make better decisions.

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You can feel calmer and you can have more confidence in your decisions and

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your wiser thoughts.

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From this deeper sense of who you are,

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there's a wonderful quality to the deeper,

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wiser person within you.

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And when we just allow the moment to be exactly be what it is.

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Allow the thought to be what it is and just watch it.

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Allow the breath to be what it is and we just watch it.

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It's the same as the sounds from the external world.

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Any sensations from within.

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We just allow them to be what they are.

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We learn.

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We become wiser.

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We become our own teacher.

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And from this deeper, wise perspective,

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You can make better decisions

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And be more confident throughout the day.

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And in a moment I'm going to come back from five. But bring this deeper, wiser sense of you back

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with it.

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Whenever you need to today, you can call up on your breath to

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create a little space between you and the decision and

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you know you'll make a deeper, wiser

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choice.

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Five. Four. Gently move your arms. Three. Gently open your eyes.

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Two. Shake out your body a bit One. And smile and take a look around the room and just know

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that there's a Wise teacher within you. Whenever you just bring your attention to your breath and you

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just pause and you can approach any problem you have today from this level of deep wise

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insight teacher. Have a wonderful day.