You go through the body and actually talk to it. Hi toes, how are you? Then you wait, and you listen to what comes back.

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Toes, feet, ankles, all the way up. Each part gets asked, gets a moment to answer, and gets thanked for what it does. Sometimes a part tells you something you had not noticed. Sore, swollen, tired. I do this a couple of times a month, because we rarely check in with the thing carrying us around.

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Hello and welcome to my Inner Peace Meditation. I'm Steven Webb and this meditation is about appreciating and having

a bit of gratitude for our body and it also helps us to heal our body by listening to the

different parts and it's something I do quite regularly, probably a couple of times a month. And just go through

my body each part, just asking how are you doing and how is it feeling? And then just appreciating it

for what it does for me. And I find it's It's really helpful to check in with our different body

parts because we don't always take notice of our body, what it's doing and how it's feeling. And it's a

really simple meditation. If you just do it two or three times, you'll be able to do it without the

guidance. So become comfortable.

Just allow your body to relax into this moment.

And remember to relax into this moment. You don't have to actually do anything. You just have to allow this

moment to be what it is.

Allow your breath to be what it is.

Your body to be what it is.

And you allow your breath to be what it is. And you don't have to do anything with your breath.

Just the same as you don't have to do anything with the air around you. You can still breathe it

in and breathe it out and

You can still appreciate everything for what it is. You

don't have to do anything with it.

And if you gently close your eyes, or just soften your gaze to a few feet in front of you.

And with each breath, just breathe in calm and breathe out relax.

And with each breath, just feel your body becoming more relaxed.

Breathing in calm,

breathing out relax.

And now let's turn our attention to our toes. And you can feel them resting there. Notice their presence.

And

you can gently say in your mind, Hi Toes. How are you?

And then you pause and just listen.

Feeling for whatever sensations arise,

whether it's warmth or coolness, there may be a tingling, perhaps

nothing at all.

There may be a tiredness, there may be a heaviness to your toes.

And just acknowledge their response.

And now with a genuine heartfelt gratitude, thank them. Thank

you Toes. For supporting me and for balancing my steps.

And now move your awareness to your feet.

Notice their weight and their texture.

And again ask, Hi feet. How are you today

And the same as the toes. We just wait for their response.

Maybe it's a sense of heaviness or a lightness.

Maybe you can feel them in their shoes.

And again with a genuine appreciation say thank you. Thank you feet for carrying me through my journey.

For grounding me to the earth.

And You continue this dialogue, just gently moving your awareness through each part of your body.

And You can move to your ankles and calves.

Hi ankles and calves. How are you doing?

And give a few moments to wait for the response.

And then with genuine gratitude, thank you for holding me up.

Thank you for supporting me along with my feet.

Now we'll move to your knees and your thighs.

And just say, hi, how are you?

And very often after the initial response of maybe a lightness or a warmth or a heaviness,

maybe even a tiredness, they

might even tell you something that you're not aware of. Maybe there's a bit sore there or maybe they're a

bit swollen or something.

And you just appreciate them for being there and holding you up. So thank you.

Thank you to your knees and your thighs.

And now moving on to your hips and your... Torso in general. You can

feel your chest rising and with each breath. And

this is the whole area of your back and your stomach and all

your liver and kidneys and all the insides and all of the stuff that goes on in there to keep

you alive. And just say hi, how are you all doing?

You'll notice how they all work together.

And with a genuine heartfelt thank you. Thank you to all the different parts around this part of your body.

A real genuine gratitude for your

stomach and what it does. Your

bum and all the different areas down there from your liver to your kidneys. They all play a role in

keeping you alive and keeping you here.

And then move on to your shoulders and your neck.

Hi how are you doing?

And you might find you can allow them to relax a little bit more

And just see how they're feeling.

And there's never a right to a wrong answer. It's just exactly the way they feel at the moment.

And then say thank you. Thank you to your neck for holding your head up and your shoulders, for moving

your arms around.

Now we move to the arms and your hands and your fingers and your thumb. Bring them all in and

say hi, how are you doing?

Maybe they can feel a bit hot or cold or maybe they're tired or

maybe they're ready to do more work or whatever.

Now we can say thank you. Thank you hands for picking stuff up for me. Thank you. Fingers and

arms for all the things you do for me every day that I wouldn't be able to do without you

here.

And now we'll move to your head. And

we'll do the head in general first

I mind How are you doing?

And the mind will go blank for a moment. And

then when it realizes you're actually talking to your mind it'll start telling you all sorts of stuff.

And you smile at it and thank you. I really appreciate you for all the thoughts you give me. All

the thoughts you give me that you think I want.

I really appreciate you being here and having this moment with me.

And now move your awareness to your hearing and

to your smell, to your breath,

to your taste and your eyes. Even if you got them closed, you can still see the odd

the odd shape or the odd colour difference. And you can hear my voice. And

we just put all those together and say, hi, how are you doing?

Now you can really appreciate for what they do for you.

Your eyes so you can see. And your nose to smell. And your mouth to taste. And your ears to

listen. And

between them all, they give us an experience of life. To be here. The

lenses in which we see and taste and feel the world.

And now finally we bring to our hearts and our chest.

And with a slightly deeper breath, we just, Hi, how are you doing? To our hearts. And

this is the centre place where we feel

centre place of all our emotions. All of our wisdom.

And we just wait for the answer. How are you doing?

And you may notice that any feelings that come up, just really appreciate them.

And now we do the whole body. Just thank you to your heart.

And just appreciate your whole body and just a general high body. How are you doing?

And you may notice it just feels more at peace. Slightly

more quiet than usual.

And now if you hold your hand over your heart and just really thank you body. Thank you for allowing

me to experience the world.

Thank you for allowing me to be here.

Thank you for my feelings. Thank you for my taste and sight and hearing and my

smell. Thank you for my touch.

Thank you for my whole existence for being here. It's down to you that I experienced the world.

And as this journey of gratitude for our whole bodies comes to a close, just take a moment to feel

the wholeness of you, this awareness and the body as one.

And every part acknowledge and appreciate every part for what it is.

As you carry this sense of gratitude with you and slowly bring your awareness back to the room. When

you're ready, gently open your eyes returning to the world around you. Carrying with you this deep sense of connection

and a thankfulness for the body.

I don't think we appreciate our bodies anywhere near as much as we should you know Without our bodies, we

wouldn't exist here. And yet we pay so much attention to our mind and our thinking and our

emotions that we forget that our toes and our feet and our legs, hands, all they're doing their bit as

well. You know all interdependent on the different parts of the body.

I think when we take a deep breath and really appreciate this. And

this is the way we can heal our body just by appreciating it and knowing it's there and knowing where

the little ailments are that we're struggling with. We can help to heal them. I hope you enjoyed this

and

I hope it helps. And you don't need to do all the whole meditation every single time. Just sit in

the car and go, hi legs, how are you doing?

Hi heart, how are you feeling?

Hi eyes, how are you doing? And when we do that, it just really allows our awareness to step outside

of ourselves. Thank you. And I'm Steven Webb and I've got another podcast, Stillness in the Storms, that

just digs a little bit deeper into helping people through difficult times and seeing the world a little bit differently.

And there's links to my website and all below.

Take care.