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Episode 105

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7th Jun 2026

Create Space Around Your Thoughts

Stevens new course: Finding Peace in Everyday Life (you choose how much to pay)

This is a gentle Zen influenced meditation on giving space to thoughts, feelings and body sensations.

Steven Webb guides you through the image of a closed shed and then an open field, so you can feel the difference between being crowded by what arises and giving it enough room to be seen clearly.

We begin by arriving just as we are. No forcing calm. No pushing thoughts away. No trying to fix every feeling that appears. A thought may appear, a feeling may appear, a pain may appear, or a worry may appear. The practice is to notice it without immediately following it, arguing with it, explaining it, or turning it into a problem.

Inside the closed shed, a thought or feeling can feel loud, close and urgent. It can seem as if it fills the whole space. Then the door opens. Light comes in. You step into a wider field with sky, air and room in every direction. The same thought may still be there, but now there is space around it. It is no longer the whole truth. It is something passing through.

This meditation is for anyone who feels crowded by their own thoughts, emotions, body sensations, worries or stories. It is also a companion practice for the Stillness in the Storms episode on giving space as a form of love.

Space does not mean distance from life. Space means just enough room to see clearly.

Who this meditation is for:

  • Anyone whose thoughts feel loud or crowded
  • People who want to stop fixing every feeling as soon as it appears
  • Listeners who find Zen helpful when it stays practical and grounded
  • Anyone learning to pause before reacting
  • People who need a little more room around worry, pain or emotion

What it may help with:

  • Creating a gap between awareness and reaction
  • Seeing thoughts and feelings more clearly
  • Softening the urge to fix everything immediately
  • Practising spaciousness through guided imagery
  • Returning to the body with more kindness and less pressure

If this meditation meant something to you, please share it, leave a review, or treat me to a coffee: stevenwebb.uk

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Inner Peace Meditations
Short guided meditations for people who cannot meditate. No jargon, no complicated breathing, no promises. Around fourteen minutes. Always free.
Short guided meditations for people who cannot meditate.

That is not a joke, it is the actual brief. If you have ever tried one of these and spent the whole time thinking about whether you were doing it right, then went back to scrolling, these are for you.

I am Steven Webb. I have ADHD and dyslexia, and my mind has never once gone quiet. I stopped trying to make it. That turned out to be the whole thing.

You do not have to empty your head. You never did. The thoughts are not the problem, your relationship with them is.

Most of these run around fourteen minutes. Morning ones to start the day a bit lighter. Evening ones to let the day settle. Some for anxiety, some for anger, some for the nights when sleep is not happening.

No complicated breathing. No visualisations you cannot hold. No promises about who you will be in thirty days.

Free, and staying free.

Steven Webb has been paralysed from the chest down since 1991. He teaches from the mess, not from the mountaintop.
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