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Welcome to this guided meditation. This is the meditation for when you don't want to meditate, basically. And I'm
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recording this now because I don't want to meditate. And I've been resisting it for a while. And I thought,
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what better way of meditating than recording a guided meditation and doing it along with you. And there's a
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lot of the time we procrastinate and we resist and We just don't want to sit down and do nothing
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for 10 minutes or five minutes or whatever. So I won't push it. Let's do a few minutes meditation. Just
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trying to settle the body when it doesn't want to settle.
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So the way I do this is bring
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my focus to my breath.
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I'm breathing in and I'm breathing out.
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I don't do anything with my breath. I just allow my breath to do that.
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And after a few breaths, I just allow the body to relax. Allow
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the shoulders.
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The arms,
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hands and the fingers and the legs and the toes.
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Anything that just comes to mind that you can relax. And
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you do this just by allowing it to relax, that's all.
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You don't have to do anything to your body to relax, you just allow it.
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And sometimes it helps to breathe in calm and
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breathe out relax
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And you can say it in your mind.
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And with each breath you can relax that a little bit more. By just allowing the body to relax.
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By finding parts of the body that could relax a little more.
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Maybe your eyes and your cheeks.
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Even your nose and your tongue and your ears.
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And you may notice that everything just becomes that little bit quieter.
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Even the atoms in your body that may seem quite agitated just become a little slower.
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And you recognise that you don't have to do anything with this moment. You don't even have to relax. You
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don't even have to change your breath you Just allow this moment to be what it is and just watch
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it with awareness.
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I'm aware I'm breathing.
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I'm aware my body's relaxing.
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I'm aware my mind's quieter.
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I'm aware the world's a little quieter.
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And if a thought does come up, you don't have to do anything with it. Just be aware, oh there's
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a thought.
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And if you find the thought really quite intrusive or it just won't disappear.
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Just thank the thought. Thank you.
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But we've just been awareness now.
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You can even do it as a little game.
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What can we be aware of?
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We can be aware of the feelings that arise,
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the sounds that are coming in,
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the heat on our skin.
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We can be aware of any pockets of tension in the body that once
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you become aware of them they just automatically relax.
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And notice with every breath you can still allow the body to relax a little bit more.
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There's almost always another level of relaxation.
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Another level of quietness
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new level of stillness.
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And we're just going to spend a couple of minutes just being aware of the breath.
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I'll keep an eye on the time. You don't have to.
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Your only job is to be aware.
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Welcome back.
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How was that?
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See, we don't have to make a big thing out of meditation every single time. Sometimes we can just sit
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down and be aware.
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I'm going to count back from five.
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Five. Four. Gently open your eyes. Three. Shake out your arms. Two.
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One. Just look around the room and even if you didn't close your eyes and even if you didn't really
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relax into this meditation, it really doesn't matter. Sometimes meditation isn't about a deep profound awareness or
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a deep relaxation. Sometimes meditation has just simply been aware of what's going on in the body right now
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and what's going on in the mind right now and Just stepping back and just becoming aware of it.
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Sometimes that's all we need to do.
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I'm Steven Webb and thank you for doing this meditation and thank you for doing this with me. I needed
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it. I needed this little bit of calmness. Boy, I've been struggling today and just
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doing this for you and doing this with you, that makes a big difference. These podcasts are, they don't
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have any sponsorship. They totally rely on the donation by you guys. So if you can
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and if you're able to, just drop me a coffee in the link below. If not, it doesn't matter. Enjoy
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them. A bit of inner peace in your world. Take care. Bye.
