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I Feel Where I've Been Holding Others' Needs: Somatic Body Scan | 10 Min · Meditations for Inner Peace

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Before anything else, notice your hands, let them soften.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: Find a position that feels steady and let your body settle wherever it already is.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: Don't change your breath, just notice it arriving and leaving.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Let your breath find its own rhythm now.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: Soft light coming through a window, the kind that doesn't ask anything of you.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: You're sitting there, and for once, there's nowhere else you're supposed to be.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: No one is waiting on an answer.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing is unfinished in this room.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: Let yourself notice how unfamiliar that feels.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: How long it's been since you sat somewhere without also holding what everyone else might need from you.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: There's a version of you already sitting here further along than you are today.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: You are sitting in that soft light, and your shoulders are just shoulders, not a shelf for what other people are feeling.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: You look up and you say, I remember when I carried it before I even knew I was carrying it in my jaw, in my stomach, low and tight, before I'd said a single word.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: I don't anymore, not because everyone stopped needing things, just because I stopped being the place it all landed first.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: Bring your attention to your jaw.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: Notice if it's holding something, an answer you haven't given yet, a yes you've already decided on without saying it out loud.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: See if it can soften just slightly.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Bracing, lifting, waiting for something.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: Let them drop even half an inch.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: And your stomach.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: This is often where it lives the longest.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: The low tightness of overgiving, of tracking what everyone else needs before you've asked what you need.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: See if it can loosen even slightly, even just for this breath.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to solve anything right now.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: You're just noticing where it's been living.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's enough.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: Gently, feel it.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have to hold this here.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_00: Feel it.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: This isn't mine to carry.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: Feel it.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: I can set this down.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: They are also not mine to hold in my body.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: Feel your feet wherever they are right now.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: Feel the surface beneath you, solid, unmoving, asking nothing of you.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: When you're ready, let your attention come back into the room you're actually in.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: You're back.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: And a little more of you came back with you than usual.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: Carry one thing with you.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Your jaw, your shoulders, your stomach.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: They were never meant to hold what isn't yours.