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Hi, I'm Steven Webb, Welcome to a meditation when you don't know how things are going to turn out and
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you're concerned with uncertainty and fear of what might happen For the next few minutes, you don't need
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to find any answers.
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We're just going to sit back and watch And you don't need to do anything with your body or your breath.
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Just allow your body to become comfortable and just become aware Whether you're sat up or lying down,
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that's all fine Your body knows how to breathe and your body knows how to relax We're just going to allow
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these things to happen And while you settle in, just, one thing to say I'll talk about the watcher.
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That's not something you have to become or get right.
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It's just part of you that notices.
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It's here already.
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Every time you catch your mind wandering, that's the watcher doing its job So just invite your body to
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relax You could start with your face and jaw his shoulders, arms and fingers your belly, legs and toes
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And yes, even your ears or perhaps even your forehead You'd be surprised where your body's not relaxed
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And just breathe in calm, breathe out, relax And let this moment be what it is You may notice the mind
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going a little quicker But as you allow the body to relax, the mind will settle.
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We don't need to do anything with the mind.
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The mind knows how to settle And somewhere in your mind right now, there's so much you still don't know
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about what might happen next week or next year And you might be waiting to hear back, or you might want
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some certainty in a relationship, or just uncertainty of how your body's going to be.
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It really doesn't matter what it is.
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And the mind really doesn't like this.
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It doesn't like the gap, so it fills it.
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It plays out one way and then it finds another way to play it out and then another.
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And that's not because your mind's broken, it's because it cares.
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It thinks that if you hold on to it tight enough and it thinks if you think about it enough, you'll come
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up with the answers.
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You'll find some certainty But to use a metaphor, you can't steady the tide by grabbing hold of it.
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We steady ourselves just by allowing ourselves to step back Maybe leaving the boat to rock a little so
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picture a Beach A good beach, a nice quiet spot with room for you to sit down And in front of you, the
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days come and go like the weather That Some of them arrive sunny, some are gray, and none of them stay
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And you don't have to make the weather behave You're just the one watching the sky And when a worry comes
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through, let it be that wave that comes in over the beach You can see it arrive and here's the nice calm
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bit.
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You don't have to do anything with that wave You don't have to judge it.
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You don't have to grab a surfboard and go out and surf it.
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And just let the wave go back out And these waves are like thoughts.
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Another thought will come, that's fine That's what the waves do.
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That's what the thoughts do Watch it arrive and watch it recede back into the ocean just like the water
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was originally And now we gently step back even further.
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Who is doing the watching?
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You don't need to answer.
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Just feel how quiet the question is Who is doing the watching?
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It feels peaceful The thoughts come and go, and the watcher stays.
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The days come and go, and the watcher stays The weather and the watcher has never needed to know what
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comes next.
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It just watches what comes and it's okay And from this place of sitting, not knowing what comes next,
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it stops it becoming a threat It's just open sky with room for whatever moves through it Because we want
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to be in control of what comes next, and we're really not in control, And that's okay And let's do three
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affirmations and just feel them deeply.
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May I trust myself with whatever comes May I trust myself with whatever comes May the not knowing within
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find a little calm.
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May the not knowing within find a little calm May I know I am held even here in uncertainty May I know
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I am held even here in uncertainty So you sat down to meditate today, and you came here with not knowing
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what comes next, and you still don't.
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But if you really feel deeply, you're still breathing and still okay.
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The watcher in you has seen every single day of your life arrive, And it has watched every single one
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of them pass.
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And in a moment, I'll guide you back.
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And we take the And we take the okay with not knowing with us.
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Because you'll never truly know, and it's okay because you have the wisdom to know whatever does happen,
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you will be okay.
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You've got the tools to deal with it.
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You've got the wisdom inside to deal with it, like you have in every other situation You are ready So
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five, just become aware of the room around you.
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Four, just gently open your eyes.
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Three, shake out your arms and fingers.
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Two, look around and just be really alive and awake.
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One, just take a deeper breath and Thank you for sitting with me today, and I know it does mean a lot
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to me and to many others.
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