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I Settle Into My Body Before I Face What's Ahead: 10 Min Guided Grounding Meditation · Meditations for Inner Peace

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: If you're feeling unsteady right now, that's exactly why you're here.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: Find a place to sit or lie down.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine for a moment that you're settling at the base of an old sturdy tree, one that's weathered more storms than you can count and is still standing.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: Breathe in slowly for a count of four.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: Hold gently and out for a count of six once more in for four.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Hold and out for six, slow and complete.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: Let your breath find its own rhythm now.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: You can't leap from an unsteady place.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: You can only leap from solid ground.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: So before we think about what's ahead, we're going to build that ground right here, right now.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: There is no need to rush toward the thing that's worrying you.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: It will still be there in ten minutes.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: What won't be there if you let it is the shakiness underneath it, the sense that you're facing it from nowhere solid at all.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: Feel your feet wherever they are.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: Press them gently into the floor beneath you.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: Let them be heavy, supported.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Feel your spine not rigid, just present, holding you up the way it always has, without you having to think about it.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: Notice too the surface underneath you, the floor, the chair, the ground.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: It has been holding you this whole time, asking nothing of you in return.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: It will keep doing that, whether or not you notice, but noticing helps.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: Something is ahead of you.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: A conversation, a decision, a change you didn't fully choose.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to solve it right now.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: You just have to be here solidly before you go meet it.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: Steady for whatever comes.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: Its roots don't panic when the wind picks up.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: They simply hold quietly, doing the one job they were built for.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: You have roots too, even if you can't always feel them.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: This breath is one.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: This ground beneath you is another.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: The people who've held you through hard things before, their roots too, whether they're near you today or not.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: You can do the same as the tree, not fearless, just rooted and willing to let the wind pass through without being uprooted by it.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: I am grounded before I am brave.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: Everything else follows.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: Let it hold you the way it's always been willing to.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever is ahead of you today, you'll meet it from here.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: Steady, grounded, already enough, long before you need to prove anything.