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Today, we dive into the wisdom of our bodies and how they can guide us when life feels chaotic. It’s all about remembering that our bodies have our backs, even when our minds are overwhelmed. We often try to control everything, but sometimes, we just need to take a moment to breathe and listen to what our bodies are telling us. We can relax and let our muscles do their thing rather than forcing a feeling. So, let’s embrace that calmness and give ourselves a break, because our bodies know what to do if we just let them.

Finding peace in the chaos of life can feel like a never-ending battle, but we often forget that our bodies are equipped with the wisdom we need to navigate through it all. This podcast dives into the idea that while our minds can be overwhelmed and busy, our bodies have a natural ability to guide us back to stillness. It's about taking a moment to pause, breathe, and listen to what our bodies are saying. Instead of trying to control our breath or our feelings, we can simply allow ourselves to be present. By focusing on our breath and relaxing our muscles, we can tap into the calmness that lies within, even when everything around us feels chaotic. Remember, it’s about giving ourselves permission to slow down and trust our bodies. They know what to do, and they can help us find that much-needed peace amidst the storms of life.

Takeaways:

• Our bodies are wise and often know better than our overwhelmed minds, so trust them.
• Taking a moment to focus on our breath can help calm us during stressful times.
• It's okay to pause and check in with ourselves instead of rushing to do something.
• In moments of overwhelm, just breathe and let your body relax and do its thing.
• Remember to acknowledge your body's wisdom and take breaks from constant mental chatter.
• The body has been learning for thousands of years, so listen to it when in doubt.

Hello and welcome to a smaller version of my podcast.

I'm just going to do a few little bite size, I guess, versions of stillness in the storms just to help us with that little bit of peace when we need it.

And in this one, I just want to talk about the wisdom of the body and to remember that the body has your back very often, that we are trying to control the body all the time.

And when things are all going wrong around us, it's the body that is screaming at us with the knowledge and the wisdom to be able to deal with it.

But the head is just so overwhelmed and unwise at the moment that years ago we had very little to do with our minds.

We could cope with a little bit of information we were getting.

Now we've just been overloaded with everything.

So this is just a little reminder.

What do I do in those occasions?

Well, when I remember, I just deliberately just take a little moment out.

And this could be a few seconds or it could be two or three minutes.

And all I do is I become aware of my breath.

And we can do this now, just I'm breathing in and I'm breathing out.

But what's really important is I don't do anything with my breath.

My body knows how to breathe.

And if you're familiar with my guided meditations, especially my more recent ones over the last year or so, I don't try to change the breath.

Your body knows how to breathe in any given circumstances.

But the problem is the minute we get involved, we start changing it.

We try to force a certain feeling.

The body knows how it should feel in any given moment.

So just become aware of your breath and just allow your breath to be what it is.

And in a similar way, your muscles know how to relax.

They know how to be in any given moment, just like your breath.

So just become aware of the breath and be aware of your muscles and just allow them to do what they want to do.

And you'll probably find they just want to relax and then just allow them to do so.

Very often situations are where we feel we've got to do something and if we just take that step back and, ah, let's just be here.

Does this moment really need me to do something right now?

Very often it doesn't.

Very often it can wait a few minutes or a few hours or a few days.

And I'm not talking about putting stuff off, I'm talking about we've been overwhelmed with lots of things to do.

You can only do one thing.

You can only deal with the Next thing that needs to be done.

And when we're just shopping or when we're driving somewhere, when we're anything we're doing, the mind is trying to do five other things.

And just by doing this exercise, just, ah, what's my breath doing?

What's my muscles doing?

What's my body doing?

And there's so much wisdom in our bodies.

There's so much more to know, more to learn from our bodies.

You know, the brain thinks it's got everything.

You read a book and the brain has it.

It's not until you put it in practice does the body actually have it.

The body's been around a lot longer than the thoughts have been around.

If you think about that, the brain and the mind's been around a long time.

And if you read a book that's only been around, I don't know, 5, 10, 20 years, maybe 300 years, if you read Shakespeare, a lot of the stuff that you read or you learn is brand new information.

But the body knows, the body has, you know, hundreds, thousands of years of knowledge all inherited.

Your body has your back.

Your body knows what to do.

And if you remember this, it does give us that sense of calmness.

So that's my thoughts of today.

Just bring your attention back to your breath and just allow your breath to be what it is.

Allow your muscles to be what they want to be.

If they want to feel relaxed, let them.

And you'll find you're a lot more stressed out and overwhelmed in this moment than you have to be.

I'm Stephen Webb and this is a just a little snippet or I'll think of a name for them in due course.

In the meantime, thank you for all your support.

I love you guys.

And I'm going to be doing a lot more of these little ones and then the odd longer one, so you'll hear from me more often.

Take care.

Bye.

And I love.