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I Trust the Life I Am Brave Enough to Live: Extended Guided Meditation · Meditations for Inner Peace

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Hello again.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: This one closes something big.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Find somewhere you can stay a while.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: This session has room to breathe.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: And so do you.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Let your breath move like a slow wave in and back out.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Once more, like a wave arriving and receding unhurried, certain of its own rhythm.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: Let your breath find its own rhythm now.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: A coastline, maybe, or a cliff with a wide open view, not at the edge of danger, at the edge of everything you can now see clearly, because of how far you've come to get here.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: This quarter asks a lot of you, let's walk back through it together briefly before we look forward.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: You learn to speak to yourself with something other than criticism, to notice the harsh voice, and choose a kinder one again and again until it started to feel less like a choice and more like home.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: To feel your breath, your senses, the ground beneath you, instead of treating your body as something to manage from a distance.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: And you learned courage, not the fearless kind, but the real kind, breathing through uncertainty, standing in doorways between chapters without rushing through them, grounding yourself before leaping, instead of leaping and hoping you'd land.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: It happened because you kept showing up week after week.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: Even on the weeks, it would have been easier not to.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: Feel that now in your body, everything is quarter-built in you, all of it still here, all of it yours to keep.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: Notice your chest where the self-compassion lives now a little more easily than it used to.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: Notice your whole body more inhabited than it was three months ago.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: More felt, less managed.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: Notice your spine straighter, not from effort, but from actually trusting what's holding you up.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look forward from this edge, this clear view.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: What do you see ahead?
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: Not a five-year plan.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: Just the next season, the one that's about to begin.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: You don't need to know all of it.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: You only need to know this.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever it holds, you'll meet it as someone who knows how to be kind to yourself under pressure.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: Someone who knows how to come back into your own body when you've left it.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: Someone who has already proven again and again that you can be brave without being fearless.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: More finished than you are now.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's you breathing right now, in this exact moment, built this quarter breath by breath, and not going anywhere.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: Let's say some things to yourself out loud in your mind and let them land.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: I trust the life I am brave enough to live.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: Not as pressure, but as proof of the trust myself to meet whatever comes with the same steadiness I've been building all along.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: Say this one slowly, and mean it.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: Becoming is not a destination I have to reach.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's already happening in me right now.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: It was choosing again and again to keep showing up for myself.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: Feel the edge you've been standing at this whole time.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: Not a cliff to fear, just a clear view of how far you've come.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to carry this quarter's lessons like a checklist into the next one.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: Just carry the self who learned them.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: You already know the way.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: When you're ready, let your eyes open.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: The view will still be here whenever you need to come back to it.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_00: So will you.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: If this practice has meant something to you these past three months, our Patreon is a quiet way to support the show directly.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: It helps keep these meditations free and add light for everyone who needs them.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: No pressure at all.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: Just know it's there whenever you feel moved to.