In this 7-minute guided meditation, I gently lead you into a calm, reflective space to begin your day with clarity and purpose. We slow down, observe our thoughts and feelings, and create room for insight, wisdom, and compassion. This simple yet profound practice can serve as your primary morning routine or evolve into a deeper meditation session. It’s designed to help you wake with intent, face the day’s challenges with greater ease, and carry a sense of balance into every moment.
Benefits of this Meditation:
Offers a calm, structured start to your morning, promoting mindfulness throughout the day.
Guides you to observe, accept, and release tension, helping you settle your mind and body.
Encourages insight, wisdom, and compassion, serving as a gentle gateway to a deeper practice.
Builds resilience, easing you into a mindset that can handle the day’s challenges with greater ease.
Transcripts
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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
