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I Choose Relationships That Don't Require My Shrinking: 10 Min Guided Visualization · Meditations for Inner Peace

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Outside this moment, there's a lot.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: In here, there's just you and this breath.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: Let your body settle wherever it already is.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing to arrange, nothing to perform.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Don't change your breath, just notice it arriving and leaving.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: Let your breath find its own rhythm now.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: See if anything can soften.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Think for a moment about belonging, not the performed kind, not the kind you had to shrink to keep.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: The real kind.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: Somewhere in you, you already know the difference.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: One kind leaves you tired, the other kind leaves you more yourself, not less.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go looking for the second kind.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: Picture a room.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't matter what it looks like.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's a kitchen, maybe it's somewhere outdoors, maybe it's nowhere you've been yet.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: There are people in this room who feel like yours.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: Not because you're managing how they see you, because you're simply fully there.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: Notice nobody here is asking you to be smaller, quieter, easier to carry.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: There's no version of you being edited down for comfort.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: You're just here at full size.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: Feel what that's like.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: A version of belonging that doesn't cost you anything to keep.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: You're further down the road now.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: In a life built around rooms like this one, you say gently, I remember when I thought I had to disappear a little to be loved.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: I don't do that anymore.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: The people who are mine can hold the whole of me.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: You didn't get here by finding better people first.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: You got here by stopping the disappearing, and the right rooms found their way to you.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't one big decision.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: It was smaller ones repeated, staying visible in a conversation instead of agreeing your way out of it, letting someone see you disappointed, letting someone see you want something.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: Each time the room didn't get smaller, it got more honest.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: Feel that in your own body now, not someday, now.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_00: Let your shoulders be as wide as they actually are.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: Let your voice even silently take up its real amount of space.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: Say it again slower.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: I choose relationships that don't require my disappearance.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: Once more, let it land.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: Say it again softer.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: Belonging that cost me myself isn't belonging.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_00: Repeat it.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: Once more, slowly.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: Outside this moment, there's still a lot.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: But you know now what you're looking for in here, and you carry that with you.
• 10:22
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• 10:31
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