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Hi, I'm Steven Webb and welcome to a lighter start to the day.
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You don't need to do anything with your body or your breath. Just become aware.
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Your body knows how to breathe.
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Your body knows how to relax.
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And we just allow these things to happen in the moment.
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You might want to gently close your eyes or just soften your gaze.
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So let's begin the day gently.
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However you are sitting or lying, let yourself be held.
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Whether it's the chair, the bed or the floor beneath you.
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Something is already holding your weight.
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And the day hasn't started yet. Right now there is nothing to carry.
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Let's just notice the body waking. Not changing anything. Just noticing. The
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warmth of where you are. The air on your skin.
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The morning is already here. And we are slowly arriving into it.
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Let's let the body settle into its own breath. We don't change it. We don't deepen or slow it.
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The body knows what it needs right now and we only give it permission.
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Sometimes it helps to imagine breathing in calm, breathing out relax
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Breathing in calm, breathing out relax
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And we let the night go. Whatever the sleep was like. Whatever the dreams were. We
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don't need them now.
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And let's notice the weight of the body. Often we wake already braced for the day. The shoulders a
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little high and maybe the jaw a little tight.
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So let's soften the shoulders. Just
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allow them to relax.
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And they should naturally drop.
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And let the face soften too.
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The day ahead has not happened yet. All
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of it is still ahead of us, unwritten. And we often meet the morning by reaching for everything we have
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to do that day.
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And none of it is here yet. There
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is only this breath, this quiet, this
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moment before it all begins.
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So let's not pick up the whole day at once. We only ever live one moment of it. One
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step, then the next. The whole day never arrives together. It comes to us
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gently, a piece at a time.
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And as the day opens, let's bring three small wishes with us. And
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as we feel this throughout our body, as we say them quietly within our head.
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May I be gentle with myself today.
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May I be gentle with myself today.
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May I meet what comes with a little more ease.
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May I meet what comes with a little more ease.
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May I notice one good thing, however small.
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May I notice one good thing, however ever small
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And that's all the morning ask Not that we get everything right, only that we begin
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softly and stay close to this breath.
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Let's rest here for a little moment longer and feel how little we have to do to simply be
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alive in this morning. The breathing is already happening. The day is already lifting and We
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are already here
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And in a moment, I'm going to come back from five.
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Five, gently become aware of the room you're in.
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Four, open your eyes.
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Three, just move around your arms, wiggle your fingers.
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Two, just look around the room. And one, just take a slightly deeper breath.
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Thank you for sitting with me this morning and I hope you have a gentle day and I'll see you
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next time.
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care.
