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Episode 66

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13th Nov 2024

Morning Meditation to Calmly Face a Busy Day

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

Episode Overview

In today’s episode, we’ll guide you through a morning meditation to help you start your day with calm and clarity, even when it’s packed with tasks and responsibilities. This meditation focuses on grounding you in the present, helping you face each moment with ease, rather than feeling overwhelmed by everything at once.

What to Expect

This meditation includes:

  • A Gentle Breathing Practice: Begin by connecting to the natural rhythm of your breath, allowing each inhale and exhale to ground you in the moment.
  • Insights on Overwhelm: Discover how feelings of overwhelm often stem from focusing on the future. By bringing your awareness back to the present, you can release some of that tension.
  • Guided Visualization: Visualize your day as a path with each task as a stone in a stream. Take on each moment calmly, trusting in your ability to handle everything in due time.
  • Affirmations to Ground Yourself: Affirm your commitment to approaching each task with calm and ease, knowing you are enough to meet whatever comes your way.

Key Takeaways

This meditation reminds you that:

  • You don’t need to tackle the whole day at once; simply take each moment as it comes.
  • Overwhelm can be a signal to slow down and focus on the present.
  • You have the strength and wisdom to face today’s tasks with calm and confidence.

Episode Highlights

  • Breath Awareness (2 minutes): Begin by bringing gentle attention to your breath.
  • Insight on Overwhelm (2 minutes): Learn how to transform feelings of overwhelm by staying present.
  • Guided Visualization (5 minutes): Picture yourself moving calmly through each part of your day.
  • Closing Affirmations and Grounding (2 minutes): Affirm your ability to handle one task at a time, carrying this sense of calm with you.

Listen & Reflect

Set aside a few minutes to join in this peaceful practice. Remember, all you need to do right now is be here, breathing and grounding yourself for the day ahead.

Support the Show

If you enjoy this meditation and want to keep the podcast ad-free, please consider treating Steven to a coffee at https://stevenwebb.uk. Your support helps keep this content accessible for everyone.

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About the Podcast

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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