Grateful and A Positive Start To Your Day

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Just while you're making yourself comfortable and getting settled in, I just want to tell you about another podcast I

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have. It's called Stillness in the Storms Podcast.

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And it's a podcast that helps you to get a little inner peace when you need it most and you

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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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sponsors for either of these podcasts. So if you would like to treat me to a coffee, you can head

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over to StevenWebb.uk or if you'd like to download the five simple practices for inner peace, also head

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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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I trust that you found a nice, quiet, comfortable place to sit down so you won't be disturbed. And you

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can either lie down or sit, but just make yourself comfortable. Shake out your arms a little, wiggle out your

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body and just allow your body to relax into this moment.

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Nothing about this meditation is about forcing your body or your breath to do anything different than what you're doing,

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but just allow these things to relax into this moment.

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Breathing in calm. Breathing out. Relax.

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Being calm. Breathing out. Relax.

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And relax.

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And if you find your mind wandering, just give it a gentle smile and recognise that's what the mind does.

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And bringing it back to your breath and just go, no, we're just going to be with the breath for

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now. And thank you for the thought. Thank you for the story. But just allow it to go and bring

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it back to your breath and just sitting here in this moment

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And As your body is slowly relaxing deeper and deeper, just bring your attention to your heart centre.

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Imagine a warm, loving light shining in your heart.

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As you inhale, imagine this light growing slightly brighter.

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And as you exhale, imagine it spreading throughout your entire body.

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So you're breathing in and your light's going slightly brighter.

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As you breathe out, this light spreads to all the different parts of your body. Right down to your toes.

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Right out through your fingers.

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Up through your head.

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Breathing in more light. And

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breathing out as you spread it around your body.

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Breathing in the calm light.

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Breathing out relax as it's spread out throughout your whole body.

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And if your mind does wander, just smile and thank you for the thought and

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I'm just breathing in this light and I'm spreading it throughout my body.

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And as this light spreads, think of all the things in your life that you're really grateful for.

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Anything that comes up, whether it's just a simple thing like your quilt this morning or your house,

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it really doesn't matter what comes up. Just feel a little deep gratitude for

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It It might be objects. It might be people in your life. It might be as simple as your life

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itself.

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As these things come up, just... Just

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really share that little bit of gratitude for it.

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It could even be your memories or things that have happened and experiences that you're grateful to have.

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And as you keep thinking of different things to be grateful for, we're going to narrow it down to a

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few things. And

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And first of all, I want you to think of someone.

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Someone in your life. It could be from your current life right now, or it could be from your past

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or It could be a family member or just a friend. It could be even somebody famous. But bring that

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person to your heart

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And imagine them in your life with you right now.

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And all of whatever you're grateful for, for them, imagine what they gave you.

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It could be wisdom. It could be friendship. It could be just the fact that they were there when you

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needed the most It doesn't matter what, but just I am grateful for. And you can say that sentence. I

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am grateful for.

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And just continue it with whatever you're grateful for.

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And you can just say thank you to this person. Thank you.

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And then move your attention to an object. Now this could be something as big as your house or your

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car. Or it could be just a simple little cup you've got your coffee in this morning. It can be

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anything at all. Just bring that object to your heart and to your mind right now. And really appreciate

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what it does for you.

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The difference your life is because that object's in your life right now.

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And we do the same. We say, I am grateful for. And you say whatever it is you're grateful for

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about that object.

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And then you say thank you.

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And really appreciate the object for what it does for you.

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And now I want you to bring something to mind of something that's happening in your life at the moment.

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It could be a an event or it could be a job or it's just something that you're going through

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at the moment. And if you struggle to find something really positive and great you're going through, perhaps you can

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bring something to mind that may not be that positive but something you're really learning from. It's really giving you

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some life skills or Giving you courage to handle things. So whatever you bring to your heart and to your

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mind, think of a positive thing you got from it in a way that it gives you joy or in

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a way that it's going to give you experience.

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And we do the same. I am grateful for. And then we just explain very briefly why we're grateful for

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this experience.

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And then finally, we're going to think of something grateful about today. And something that's going to happen

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later or someone you're going to meet or some object you're going to use at work or at home. Just

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something about today. Really narrow down and focus on that one thing that you're going to be grateful for. It

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could be as simple as what you're going to eat this evening. But

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whatever it is, bring it right into your heart and your mind and really feel what it's going to give

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you.

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Feel the presence of it. What it's really gonna how it's gonna really help to fulfill your

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day and give you something positive.

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And we say the same, I am grateful for, and explain the reason why.

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And just for a moment, we're going to open our awareness to grateful for everything. All the experiences,

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all the objects, all the friends, all the things that we've been through and all the things we're going to

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go through. And really expand that feeling of gratitude to the whole of everything that's right around us.

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The whole of the area and the place we live.

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And we continue to expand this to the whole country

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And the whole world.

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Very grateful to be here and to be alive and to have a heartbeat and to have breath and to

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have thoughts and feelings

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for everything that is so great about been alive right now.

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And now we're going to take a deep breath and we're going to bring this feeling of gratitude with you

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as we start the day off. So I'm going to count back from five and we'll gently open our eyes

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and bring ourselves back to this moment. So five, four, open your eyes. Three, shake out your

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arms. Two, take a deep breath. One, and just feel that immense gratitude for today and whatever is going to

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arise today. And remember, gratitude is a really powerful emotion that it can really change the way you think

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and feel. Take a moment today, every now and again, just to see what you're grateful for and

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watch how much your life transforms. If

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you listen to this meditation every day for two or three weeks, it'll really start to change the way you

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see life and the way you feel about life. Thank

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you.

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I hope you enjoy these podcasts with these guided meditations. I'm Steven Webb and I'm the host of Stillness in

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the Storms. And I write these meditations, record them, and my whole ethos and life is just to reduce

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suffering wherever I can. I worked out how to reduce my suffering and I'm paralysed just below the neck. And

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I go through a lot in my life and hopefully I can reduce your suffering and In any way I

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can. And I've got another podcast called Stillness in the Storms podcast. And yeah, I just wanted to let you

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know who I am and who the voice is behind these podcasts. You

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can find out more about me and treat me to a coffee if they really do help at StevenWebb.uk. It

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also has the link there till we have a podcast that's stephenweb with a V and double B dot Uk.

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Thank you. Take care. Hope you have an amazing day.