The weather changes. The mountain does not. An old meditation of mine, back by request, for when everything outside you is going off.

About 18 minutes, ending on the singing bowl.

You picture a mountain in real detail, the trees, the snow, the clouds sitting on top of it. Then you let it become you. Storms arrive on the outside and it stays exactly where it is. I leave you sitting in that for a couple of minutes and keep an eye on the clock.

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Welcome to the Stillness Meditation. This is where we use the image of a mountain to help to ground ourselves

and deal with whatever comes our way. This is an older meditation of mine that I was just reminded

that isn't on the podcast, so I've added it here today. So thank you to the person that reached out

to me to let me know. and If anybody wants to reach out, please feel free. The links in the

show notes below. StevenWebb.uk. And you can also find my other podcast, Stillness in the Storms.

As well as how you can support keeping these meditations free for everybody and to help everybody have a little

bit more stillness in life. So please enjoy the mountain meditation.

So let's just get comfortable and invite our bodies to relax. And you can gently close your

eyes if you wish or just soften your gaze just a couple of feet in front of you.

If we take a deep breath and raise our arms above our heads, and as we relax and let the

breath out, slowly lower our arms either side of our bodies and let them relax on the thighs of our

legs. As we just settle into this upright posture where our backs up straight and

you

can imagine there's a little cord above our heads

just dangling down and holding us upright with our chin tucked in slightly.

And as we bring our focus and our attention to our breath, just recognise that we're breathing in and we're

breathing out.

Breathing in calm. Breathing out relax

You may notice some areas of tension somewhere in your body.

Just Imagine them relaxing and fading away as you breathe out.

Everything is well in this moment. You don't have to do anything. Just sit and invite your body to relax

and stay alert and present but relaxed at the same time.

If you find your mind wanders, just smile and thank it for the story and bring it back to your

breathing.

If you miss any part of this meditation, it really doesn't matter.

Just come back and join in whenever you realise that you've been wandering.

Imagine a mountain. Maybe local or maybe some picture of a mountain.

And imagine it in lots of detail. One that resonates with you. One that you feel like you could be

part of.

Imagine the details of maybe it has trees.

Perhaps it has snow near the top.

And you can imagine the clouds up above it.

Maybe there's a lake.

A mountain that you particularly thinks really beautiful and the way it sits in the earth and it feels

grounded and still and calm.

Notice how the mountains stay serenely calm no matter what the weather is on the outside.

No matter what's happening, the mountain stays grounded. And it stays still.

Now imagine this mountain becoming part of you inside. So you are now this mountain.

You're connected and grounded to the earth.

You're strong and you're stable and no matter what weather on the outside comes your way,

You're able to handle it.

You're prepared and you're ready.

You are the stillness no matter what goes on in your life.

We are often battered by our emotions and our thoughts.

Yet when we become still and

serenely calm, we're able to handle whatever the weather is, whatever the thoughts, whatever the

emotions that come our way.

See the qualities of this mountain

And imagine those qualities in you.

The serenely calm. The

stillness.

The unwavering groundedness.

The beautiful nature of the growth on the outside

And the strength and stillness from inside.

These are all beautiful qualities that you possess. And

when we slow down and take a deep breath and recognise these qualities, it means we are ready for whatever

life or whatever thoughts or emotions come our way.

There's also a beautiful richness and quality too all the life on the mountain.

What makes the mountain beautiful?

From the trees, to the birds, to the snow and the clouds above.

All of this richness

makes up who you are.

I'm going to leave you with this feeling of the mountain for a couple of minutes. I will keep an

eye on the time. Just imagine the qualities of the mountain throughout your whole body and your life

moment we're going to come back and I want you to feel this quality of strength, this unwavering presence,

this ability to stand tall no matter what the weather is on the outside.

I want you to bring this quality back with you and to project it to the rest of your day.

In a moment I'm going to come back from five And at the end I will just bring my singing

bowl. And that will signal us to come back to the present moment and bring this quality of stillness

and strength and groundedness back with us.

Five. Four. Open your eyes gently. Three.

Shake out your arms. Move your body a little bit to Take a deep breath. And

one. Release it with a little more energy.

Thank you. I'm Steven Webb, your host of Stillness in the Storms podcast, and you can find that on

StevenWebb.com.