Episode 108

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25th Jul 2026

The Second Arrow: A Meditation to Reduce Your Suffering

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

Meditation teacher Steven Webb guides a calming ten minute meditation to help you find the space between what happens and how you respond. Anger and frustration always come from a place of deep caring, and they are usually guarding something, hurt, fear, or feeling unseen. When we slow things down and see that little gap between what arises and what we do next, we can respond from our deeper, wiser self instead of reacting and regretting it three hours later.

Who this meditation is for

  • You say things in the heat of the moment and wish you had not
  • You look up hours later thinking I wish I had said something different
  • Your reactions feel instant, with no gap between the trigger and the response
  • You want to respond with wisdom and courage instead of reacting on autopilot

Key benefits

  • A little more space between what arises and what you do next
  • A kinder understanding of where anger and frustration really come from
  • Three gentle intentions your body and mind will remember for you
  • More moments of responding from your deeper, wiser, more courageous self

If you'd like to contact Steven or support his work, go to https://stevenwebb.uk

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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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