For when the world is going too fast. You slow yourself down first, then let everything else follow you.

About 12 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice.

It starts inside. The breath, the muscles, then the thoughts getting further apart. Then you look at whatever is near you, a cup, a table, and let that slow down too, until the whole thing has dropped a gear. I have thoughts but I am not those thoughts. I have feelings but I am not those feelings.

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Hello and welcome. And thank you for being here.

So let's just settle down and just become comfortable in whatever position you want to do this meditation.

And this meditation is something I've been doing for a while. When just, when the world's going a bit too

quick for me. And that seems to be every day at the moment. With everything that's going on around us.

It's like, help, stop the world, I want to get off. and then it gives me a bit of a

breather to think and just take a little time out. So just become aware of your breath.

Become aware of this moment. You

don't need to do anything with your breath because I always say your body knows how to breathe and

while you're aware of your breath just give your body permission to relax. Invite

your shoulders to relax and

just like your breath your body knows how to relax. Your

arms know how to relax in your hands and your fingers. Your torso, your bum and your legs. They all

know how to relax you just gotta give them permission. So

just go through your muscles now just ah there you go you can relax.

And even with your head and face you allow your cheeks and your nose and your eyes, the muscles

behind your eyes. Just invite them all to relax in this moment.

Including your ears and your tongue and your neck just allow it all to relax.

And now bringing your awareness back to your breath. Just breathing in calm, breathing out relaxed

We don't need to do anything with this moment. We don't need to do anything with our bodies and

even if a thought comes into our mind that is perfectly fine because that's what the mind is evolved to

do. Just

recognise thought, hello thought of a gentle smile and allow it to carry on. Allow it to just

float on by. If

a thought happens you don't need to do anything with it

the way I do this meditation is just I imagine the world just slowing down

and it's starting from within. I can already feel my body slowing down now. All

the atoms and my breath and my muscles it's just all becoming a little more peaceful.

And

even my thoughts are less frequent now. The

gaps between the thoughts and

even just like the gaps between my words.

There's those little bits of peaceful moments.

And as you're slowing down your body's still slowing down. Just become aware of whatever's around you.

And whether it's a cup or a side or it really doesn't matter. Just become aware of what's around you

and just feel it all slowing right down. And

everything is going so slow that it's barely moving. Every atom and every item is just barely

moving that you can hardly even see it.

Just like within your breath.

Just like the muscles.

Just like even when you have a thought it's going across your mind so slowly.

And then you're extending this out into the whole world and the whole world has just slowed right down.

And don't worry everything

will be just fine

in this moment we can just acknowledge that it gives us a bit more time. Just

time to think about something. Or time to just take that breath and

be okay with what is.

And when everything slows down like this everything seems to get a little quieter. A little more peaceful.

And just imagine yourself in the next few days going through the world a little slower. A little more calm.

A

little more peace.

Where your breathing is just gentle. Where

your movements are just gentle. And

your thoughts are more gentle and your feelings are just, they're

less edgy. They're just more peaceful.

They're more about understanding and compassion and just love and acceptance and

kindness.

Where even your feelings are more about compassion and kindness and understanding.

It just feels like you're more in control.

You're the one that's just able to engage and think a little more clearly.

And just bring your awareness back to your breath and allowing your body to relax. Maybe your shoulders have tensed

up a little.

Remember you don't need to do anything with your breath. And

this is the real and

wise part of doing this meditation. Is you recognise that you don't have to do anything with everything that's coming

up.

Whether it's a thought or emotion, you

don't have to do anything with it.

Just like every breath, you don't have to do anything with a breath Your body's doing all it needs to

do. If

you have a thought about something next week or next year or five months ago, you don't have to engage

with the thought.

You have thoughts, you are not those thoughts. You

have feelings, but you're not those feelings. And you can say these mantras to your mind. I have thoughts,

but I am not those thoughts.

I have feelings, but I am not those feelings

Just the same as you breathe, but you're not breath

is something that happens to you. It's something you experience, but you're not it. And

we experience this world that is just spinning out of control and the noise and all the haste and all

the decisions, everything we need to do and all the news. Well, we're just witnessing. We can take a

step back and let's just slow down a moment.

And just keep imagining everything is slowing down.

So as you're breathing in, calm, breathing out, relax. Let's

just bring our awareness back to this moment.

In a moment, I'm going to count back from five.

So five, four, gently open your eyes. Three, move your arms, wiggle your

fingers and toes, if you choose. And two, look around and one, just take a little

deeper breath. Just be really fully aware and present here. And if you can notice,

everything feels louder and faster from this moment. But when we're in meditation,

everything feels slower and like there's space to make decisions. When

really we can bring that calmness of meditation with us on a daily basis. And we can just, ah,

there's my breath. Ah, there's a thought. And just have that little gap between what's

arising and what we do with it So when you have a thought so ah there's a thought. Interesting.

Thank you for joining me on this meditation. And just a reminder, these meditations are completely free.

And there's no adverts because we don't want to be disturbed by adverts before after meditation.

So they're brought to you free by the kind listeners that donate a coffee occasionally

and the monthly donators. So I just want to say thank you to all them and thank you to you

for being here. You can find out more about what I do and how you can support me in the

links below. Or go to StevenWebb.uk Thank you. Have a wonderfully peaceful day

in a slightly slower pace.