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I Come Back to My Body: 10 Min Grounding Meditation · Meditations for Inner Peace

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Notice the weight of your body right now.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: The places where you meet, the surface beneath you.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to arrive anywhere.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: You're already here.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: Let your hands rest wherever they already are.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Let your shoulders be exactly as heavy as they are.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: Breathe in slowly and let it go.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Continue breathing like this on your own for a moment.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: How much of your attention has been out there on someone else's face, someone else's need, someone else's plans.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: That's not a failing.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's just where your attention has been living.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: For these few minutes, let your attention come home, not to a task, just to you.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Notice your feet, whatever is underneath them, floor, ground, cushion, let them press down gently and feel it press back.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: Soften your shoulders.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: Let your hands open, palms loose, fingers uncurling.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: This is your body.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's been here the whole time, waiting for you to notice it again.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: Not resentful, not keeping score, just quietly available the way it always has been.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Picture yourself a little further down this road.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: After you've learned, really learned how to come back to yourself like this.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: You're sitting somewhere quiet, nothing urgent pulling at you.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: You notice your own breath before you notice anyone else's mood in the room.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: You say gently, I remember when I used to leave myself first, before I even said hello to anyone else.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: I'd already handed my body away.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: Now I check in with myself before I check in with anyone else.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: You're not harder now.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: You're not less warm.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: You just remember you live in here too.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: That version of you didn't get here by trying harder.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: You got here by noticing again and again the moment attention started to leave the body, and gently, without drama, calling it back.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_00: Feel that for a moment, what it's like to be someone who comes back to their own body without needing permission.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: Place a hand on your chest if that feels right.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: Feel it rise, feel it fall.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: This is yours.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody is borrowing it right now.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: I live in my own body.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_00: My presence belongs to me first.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: I come back to myself easily.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: Your back, whatever waits for you after this, it can have your attention later.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: Right now, this body is yours.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: When you're ready, let your eyes open slowly.