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Welcome to the morning meditation.
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This is the morning practice that I do each morning and I like to keep my meditation really simple and
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just sets me up for the day nicely with a calm, compassionate heart and the mindset to be able to
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do whatever I need to do. So the first thing we do is just settle in, allow the body to
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become quiet
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And we do this just by allowing the body to relax,
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Allowing the shoulders to relax.
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Wiggling into this position. Placing our arms in a comfortable place.
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And then just becoming aware of our breath.
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We don't need to do anything with the breath. We just become aware. We
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allow the body to breathe just the way it knows how to do it.
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I always find when we get involved in the breathing or the relaxing, that's
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when everything goes wrong.
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That's when we get caught up into are we doing it right? Are we doing it wrong?
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So just allow this moment to be what it is.
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Allow the body to relax.
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Allowing the shoulders, the face
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even your eyes and your cheeks
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back and your bum and your legs. Just allowing it all to relax.
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Breathing in calm. Breathing out relaxed.
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And I spend two or three minutes just settling into this quieter, more stillness time.
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And my mind will start thinking stuff up and feelings and emotions will start arising. And I just
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acknowledge them and smile and thank you for the thought.
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And then just go back to the breath and go back to the allowing this moment to be what it
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is.
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It's important not to be annoyed with their thoughts or the feelings coming up. That's what the body has evolved
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to do. That's
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what the mind's evolved to do, is think stuff up. To plan the day, to keep you safe.
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To think stuff up and bring it to your attention.
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Right now, all we're doing is just allowing this moment to be
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being calm, moving out, relaxed.
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And it's always really refreshing that we don't have to do anything with all these racing thoughts. We don't
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have to do anything with these emotions that arise. We just observe them arising and falling away. Just
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the same as we observe the sounds coming in and
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changing and adapting and evolving into different sounds. Same as the thoughts
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and emotions. This
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moment is forever transitioning to a new moment.
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It's never the same,
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always moving.
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It It's always calm.
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Beneath all the thoughts, beneath all the feelings,
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beneath all the little minutiae of what I have to do. Am I doing it right?
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Is this helping? Why am I doing this?
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Below all that, there's a lovely calmness.
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There's a peacefulness that's always there.
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And that peacefulness you don't have to do anything with.
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And it really is that simple. Just
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training the mind and training the
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the process to just, I don't have to do anything with it. I can just acknowledge and smile and
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ah. And with that comes wisdom and compassion. With that becomes a kinder heart.
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A
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more wiser day. With
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that you become that person that Handles things in a wise, compassionate
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way.
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And just before we come back to this moment, just thank your body and thank your mind for allowing it
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quiet and down for this moment. And
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just take this intention with you for the day that you're going to be calm, open-hearted open
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mind and wiser. And just feel what the body knows is best.
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So as I count back from five, just five, four, just gently open your eyes,
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three, shake out your arms, wiggle your fingers and toes to just look around and one, just take that
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breath and just feel that calmness inside but also you're here and alert and
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ready for the day ahead.
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Thank you. I'm Steven and thank you for supporting me. Wishing you a wonderful, peaceful day. And thank you for
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anybody that donates and keeps this
