Inner Peace Meditations

Some mornings the worry gets there before your feet hit the floor. This one gives it company instead of an argument.
About 12 minutes, no music, just a quiet voice.
Picture the worry as a child tugging your sleeve. It does not want an answer, it wants the adult in the room to notice. So you turn towards it and ask what it wants you to understand, then listen without correcting it. Nothing gets fixed, because nothing needed fixing. You thank it for doing its job.
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Steven
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I have never met an angry person who did not care deeply about something. Even if it is only a parking space.
About 10 minutes, no music, just a quiet voice.
There is what happens, then a gap, then what you do. Reacting skips the gap. Responding uses it. You go back to a time you snapped and notice there was no gap at all, then run it again with one in there. Three lines to leave with, and you are not asked to remember them. The body will.
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Steven
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Life fires the first arrow. We fire the next thirty. And unlike life, we never miss.
About 10 minutes, no music, just a quiet voice.
You bring up something recent that hurt, find where it sits, and watch how fast it climbs into your head and turns into a story. That is arrow two. By the time you have told four people, the body has lived it four more times. The point is not getting rid of them. It is catching yourself drawing the bow, and having a laugh about it.
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Steven
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We wake up already braced. This is ten minutes before any of it starts, when there is genuinely nothing to carry yet.
About 10 minutes, no music, just a quiet voice.
Something is already holding your weight. The shoulders come down, the jaw lets go, and the night goes wherever nights go. The trick is not picking up the whole day at once, because the whole day never turns up together. It comes a piece at a time. Three small wishes to take with you, and one is only to notice one good thing.
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Steven
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A quiet railway station and a bench with room for two. The trains are your thoughts, and we are not getting on.
About 7 minutes, no music, just a quiet voice.
One pulls in that is only something you have to do later. Then a louder one, a worry, and you can feel the tug to climb aboard. We stay put. We are not here to empty the station, because the mind thinks the way the heart beats. We are learning to stay on the bench.
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Steven
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