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Just while you're making yourself comfortable and getting settled in, I just want to tell you about another podcast I
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have. It's called Stillness in the Storms Podcast. And it's a podcast that helps you to get a little inner
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peace when you need it most and you probably have it least.
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And it's just... Seeing life from a different perspective. And I'm also choosing not to have any
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sponsors for either of these podcasts. So if you would like to treat me to a coffee, you can head
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over to StevenWebb.uk or if you'd like to download the five simple practices for inner peace, also head
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over to StevenWebb.uk. You are awesome. Settle in and enjoy the meditation. I won't disturb you
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after the meditation
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yeah This is a powerful meditation as we cannot go back and change the past. We cannot
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rewrite the story. We cannot change the experience. What we can do is rewrite how we feel about it
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and we can kind of change the way the mind sees it
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and we can make sure that the memories and experiences of the past don't affect us as much in the
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future. If we can just feel the love, And feel what it's like to receive the love. That's one
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of the hardest things is receiving the love.
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We're going to visualize going into a comfortable room and sit on a comfortable chair and then we're going to
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imagine our younger selves with us and we'll project the love from ourselves onto them and then we'll become them
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for a little bit and then we'll ask some questions of what it's like to receive love. And what it's
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like to be that child in a loving world. And then we'll return back to yourself now.
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And the reason why I set the scene slightly is because sometimes things can come up. I just want you
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to know that everything is okay. And we're in a safe environment and we're everything is well in this moment.
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And whatever comes up, just allow it to be.
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Firstly, we'll sit back and relax and we'll just give that narrator in your mind a little time off for
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the moment.
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There is nothing that needs to be done in this moment
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As we bring the awareness to I'm breathing in and I'm breathing out. You
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don't need to do anything with the breath. Just be aware of each breath in and be aware of each
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breath out and
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all the little nuances with the breath.
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As you breathe in, imagine you're breathing in calmness. As
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you breathe out, imagine you're relaxing a little more each time.
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Breathing in calm, breathing out relax
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And we're going to go from the top of the head to the right down to our toes and just
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relaxing the muscles as we go. And remember, relaxing isn't something you do. You cannot force anything to relax. It's
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just allowing it to relax and giving it permission. So
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we do this start by just giving your forehead and your face permission to relax. Breathing in calm. Breathing out
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relax
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And behind your eyes and your cheeks and
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your jaw and your neck.
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Just allowing it to soften and inviting each muscle to relax and let go of any tension.
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Moving down through the shoulders, through your elbows, now for your hands.
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Down through your torso, down
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your back, your
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belly and your bum and your knees. Down your legs.
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Just allowing it to relax each time with each out breath.
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We're just equaling the pressure between the external world and the internal world. And
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there's nothing needs to be done in this moment.
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You don't even need to get involved in your breath. Just allow your breath to be what it is.
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Now as you breathe in, calm and breathe out relaxed Slowly allow every muscle in your body from your head
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to your toes. In one big wave, just to relax and let go one more time.
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Everything is well in this moment. This moment has everything it needs.
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So now that we're completely relaxed, bring your awareness to your heart centre.
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And imagine a room in your heart. This room that you're able to climb down into the
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room has everything you need to feel safe and comfortable.
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There is a comfortable chair, some bookcases, nice
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pictures on the wall of your choice.
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It's decorated and everything is exactly the way you would want in your perfect room.
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As you walk over to the comfortable chair, you sit down and feel completely relaxed, settling
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in.
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Then you notice that there's a younger version of yourself there with you.
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It's such a time in your life when you needed the people around you and you needed the love and
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the support.
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They have no idea that you are the older version of them.
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You are just someone that is calm, loving and wise. Someone that they really appreciate having in their
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lives.
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Someone they can trust, they can feel comfortable with and someone they can rely on.
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You are both interacting, talking and telling stories to each other and listening and
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perhaps you're laughing and joking.
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You're just enjoying each other's company.
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You enjoy your younger self's company. You become aware of how much love you feel for your younger self and
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how much you care about your younger self.
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And there's this growing love and light within you, within your heart, growing in expanding With
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each moment of realising how much your younger self means to you.
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And with each awareness of your breath, it grows and expands. And eventually it includes your younger self,
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filling up the room.
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Your younger self is completely unaware of this happening. They just feel loved, safe and understood.
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As you continue to listen and share stories with them.
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Now imagine swapping position You becoming your younger self. In the presence of this older, wiser,
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loving, calm person.
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You are feeling very much loved and feeling safe and secure. Very much understood and accepted in this moment.
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What does it feel like to be completely accepted?
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What does it feel like to receive this love?
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What does it feel like to be completely yourself?
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Imagine as your younger self with everything you needed to develop in a healthy, confident and loving way.
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Now bring your awareness back to who you are now sat in the comfortable chair.
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What does it feel like to be loving your younger self?
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What does it feel like to see your younger self growing in a healthy, loving way?
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Now bring your awareness back to being your younger self.
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What is it like to receive this love from this amazing older person with you?
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What is it like knowing that you can grow up, knowing that you will always be loved and cared about
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and understood?
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Now bring your awareness back to being yourself now sat in the comfortable chair.
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And imagine your younger self merging with you. But this time, that younger self has all the love,
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acceptance and understanding. And all the love they need as if they always had it.
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Imagine what it feels like to have your inner child completely healed and been able to receive and give the
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love that they always deserved.
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As you bring your awareness back to your breath and we leave the room and become more aware of the
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sounds going on outside of you, my voice and the room you're in.
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Imagine your life today. And in the weeks ahead and even the years in the future. Knowing that the
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whole self, including your inner child, is loved and understood and healed.
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That's where you bring this meditation to the rest of the day. Bringing your awareness to your breath in the
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room you're in. Gently open your eyes. Stick out your arms. Shake them off a little bit.
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Take a deep breath with some extra energy and smile while radiating all the love you have from within
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between yourself and your younger self and the rest of the world
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just want to tell you, you are enough and you are love. Namaste.
