Meditation teacher Steven Webb guides you to a quiet railway station where each passing train is simply a thought. Instead of climbing aboard every worry and to do, you learn to stay on the bench and watch them come and go. It is a gentle way to step back from a busy mind and rest in the stillness underneath.
Who this meditation is for:
The person lying awake while their mind runs through tomorrow
Anyone caught in a loop of worry they cannot seem to put down
The overthinker who treats every thought as something to act on
Someone who wants a short, kind way back to calm in the middle of a noisy day
Anyone curious about what it feels like to watch their thoughts rather than be pulled by them
Key benefits:
A simple image you can return to any time the mind speeds up
Relief from the pull to follow every anxious thought
A felt sense of the quiet that sits between the thoughts
A way to meet a busy mind with kindness instead of a fight
A few minutes of genuine rest without needing to fix anything
Hi, I'm Steven Webb and this is one of my favorite meditations that helps me to deal with the constant chatter and that thinking and the overthinking of the mind, especially when we don't want it. You don't need to do anything with your body or your breath. Just become aware. Your body knows how to breathe, Your body knows how to relax.
And we just allow these things to happen in this moment. So as you let yourself settle, as you let yourself settle, feel the weight of your body just been held by whatever's holding it.
There is nothing to fix here, nowhere else to be, just this or even in calm, breathing out, relax. And I'd like us to imagine just a quiet railway station, your perfect kind of quiet railway station. And it's calm here, almost empty.
And there's a nice bench that we're both sitting on. We don't have to go anywhere. We're just sitting, watching the platform. And in a moment a train comes in. And this train is a thought.
Maybe something you need to do later, maybe something from this morning. We don't need to push it away, we just notice it. Ah, there is a train. And we stay on the bench. We let it sit there for a moment.
And then in its own time, it pulls away. We don't have to climb on. And here comes another one. This one might be a bit louder.
It might be a worry, the kind that usually grabs us and tries to pull us out of whatever we're doing. Notice the little pull to get on board, to follow it, to go where it wants to take us. And just for now, we stay seated.
We let it pull in and we let it pull away. And the trains keep coming. This is what they do. The mind is built to think the way the heart is built to beat. We are not here to empty the station.
We're just learning to stay on the bench. And every now and again, a kinder train will settles in a warm memory, a small gratitude. Those ones we can choose to ride and gently if we wish.
But mostly we are just watching, resting, letting them come and go. Notice now the quiet between the trains. That space the stillness on the platform. This is you, not the trains, the one who watches them.
There is nothing to chase, nothing to board, just the bench and the quiet. And you. And as we rest here a little longer, if you get any thoughts, come in. Just imagine their trains coming into the station.
And in a moment I'm going to come back from five. So five, just gently become aware of the room you're in. Four gently open your eyes if they're closed. Three.
Just move your arms, wiggle your fingers and wiggle your toes, perhaps to just look around generally. One and just take a deeper breath. And.
I always do this meditation because it takes us out of what the thoughts are, what the thoughts do, who we are, the role we play. And you may have noticed that you had gaps between your thoughts when very often we just don't notice them.
It really has been a pleasure sitting with you on the bench today. Thank you for your support on inner peace meditations. I've got another podcast called Stillness in the Storms.
If you wish to see the other links, just go to stevenwebb.uk and there you can find out how you can support and keep all these meditations completely free for everybody. Take care. Bye for now.
