Inner Peace Meditations

For anyone who finds the mirror hard. You don't have to love your body tonight, maybe not ever. Just a little peace and acceptance. About 11 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice and music underneath. We soften from the face down and notice your body as it is, not as it was or as it should be. When the critical voice starts up, we hear it the way we hear traffic outside. Then we thank the quiet workers, the heart beating all day without being asked, the lungs, the feet that carried you here. You see yourself through the eyes of someone who loves you, and we finish with three small wishes. I share a bit of my own story too. I'm paralysed from just below the neck, and the body I see in a superstore mirror, in a wheelchair, isn't the one I thought I'd have. But we're in this together. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm.…

For when your mind is full and both hands are already carrying too much. You don't need to empty it. Just find a little more room. About 12 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice and music underneath. We start at your front door with your hands full of bags and boxes, each one something asking for your attention. Out into a crowded, noisy world that feels a bit like your mind, then onto a path into the countryside and a wide clearing. There you put things down one at a time and let the ground carry them for a while. Rest is not laziness. On the way back you only pick up what you need for the next small part of the day. You're not failing at meditation. You may simply be at capacity. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy…

For the storm you can't stop. Instead of fighting it or bracing against it, sit down in the middle and stay steady. About 8 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice and music underneath. We bring to mind a storm you've known. Someone passing, losing a job, moving house, or the news getting a bit too much. Most of us fight a storm until we're worn out, or brace and wait for it to pass. There's a third way. Picture yourself in a big wise armchair, like the man at the end of the bar who finishes his drink while the fight breaks out around him. You can care and still not engage. We end with three wishes, starting with may I be steady even when I cannot be calm. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

When the news lands heavy and there's nothing you can do. Breathe in what's hard, breathe out a wish for them to be safe. About 12 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice and music underneath. We breathe in what's hard and breathe out a wish for people to be safe. It's a gentle form of Tonglen. First we notice where a headline landed in the body, then we breathe a little of that out for you too. Then we widen it. Somewhere someone is making a neighbour a cup of tea, and a nurse is starting her night shift. The fire gets the pictures, but the people carrying the water are out there too, millions of them. We end with three wishes, and the reminder that you can care and still rest. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a…

Tired of being told how to breathe? This one barely says a word. Nothing to get right, nothing to get wrong. About 10 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice and music underneath. Mostly quiet. No one tells you where to put your hands. We just sit together and do very little. Your mind will wander off, to the shopping or what's for tea, and that is fine. That is what minds do. We notice we've been away and come back to this moment. That isn't failing at meditation. That is the practice. Near the end, a minute of just listening, doing nothing with what you hear. Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. It can be done just by becoming aware. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Built a wall to keep the world out, and now it feels like a prison? A meditation for boundaries with a gate. About 11 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice and music underneath. Imagine a wall around you, all the way round, to keep out everything that stings. At first it feels wonderful. Then the strange thing: inside the wall our own strength goes soft, like a leg in plaster. And one day we need people again, and the world never reads our rules. So we try a garden with a gate instead, and tend what grows inside it. A little wisdom, a little strength, a little kindness. Then three gentle wishes with a hand on your heart. May I be safe with my gate open. May I be loved just as I am. May I be strong enough to let the world in. A boundary was never meant to be a prison. It is a garden edge, and you hold the key. The companion talk episode: Gates, Not Thorns: Are Your Boundaries a Prison? Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for…

Waiting to hear back, and the mind keeps playing out how it might go? A meditation for the fear of not knowing what comes next. About 11 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice and music underneath. The mind hates a gap, so it fills it. One version, then another, then another. Not because it is broken, because it cares. But you can't steady the tide by grabbing hold of it. So we sit on a quiet beach and let the days come and go like the weather. A worry arrives like a wave. You don't judge it and you don't grab a surfboard. You watch it go back out. Then one quiet question: who is doing the watching? The thoughts come and go, and the watcher stays. It has seen every day of your life arrive and pass. Three wishes to finish: may I trust myself with whatever comes, may the not knowing within find a little calm, may I know I am held, even here in uncertainty. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book:…

Woke up replaying something you said or did? A gentle morning meditation for the voice inside that says it was your fault. About 10 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice and music underneath. We don't argue with the voice. It thinks it is helping, like a guard who shouts to keep you safe. Terrible manners, but a good heart. So we thank it, find where the blame sits in the body, usually the chest or low in the belly, and let that place soften a little on each out breath. Nothing to fix. Then three wishes, said slowly: may I be kind to myself today, may I put down what I cannot change, may I know I am enough, even on the days I get it wrong. You are allowed to begin the day forgiven. I'm human. It's what we do. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate…

Some mornings the worry gets there before your feet hit the floor. This one gives it company instead of an argument. About 12 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Perfect for the morning. Picture the worry as a child tugging your sleeve. It does not want an answer, it wants the adult in the room to notice. So you turn towards it and ask what it wants you to understand, then listen without correcting it. Nothing gets fixed, because nothing needed fixing. You thank it for doing its job. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

I have never met an angry person who did not care deeply about something. Even if it is only a parking space. About 10 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. There is what happens, then a gap, then what you do. Reacting skips the gap. Responding uses it. You go back to a time you snapped and notice there was no gap at all, then run it again with one in there. Three lines to leave with, and you are not asked to remember them. The body will. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Life fires the first arrow. We fire the next thirty. And unlike life, we never miss. About 10 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. You bring up something recent that hurt, find where it sits, and watch how fast it climbs into your head and turns into a story. That is arrow two. By the time you have told four people, the body has lived it four more times. The point is not getting rid of them. It is catching yourself drawing the bow, and having a laugh about it. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

We wake up already braced. This is ten minutes before any of it starts, when there is genuinely nothing to carry yet. About 10 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Perfect for the morning. Something is already holding your weight. The shoulders come down, the jaw lets go, and the night goes wherever nights go. The trick is not picking up the whole day at once, because the whole day never turns up together. It comes a piece at a time. Three small wishes to take with you, and one is only to notice one good thing. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

A quiet railway station and a bench with room for two. The trains are your thoughts, and we are not getting on. About 7 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. One pulls in that is only something you have to do later. Then a louder one, a worry, and you can feel the tug to climb aboard. We stay put. We are not here to empty the station, because the mind thinks the way the heart beats. We are learning to stay on the bench. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Imagine a small shed with the door shut. Every thought in there feels loud and urgent, because there is nowhere for it to go. About 14 minutes, a short talk then a meditation. Then you open the door and step out into a field, and the same thought arrives in all that space. Nothing about the thought changed. The room did. Without space every feeling seems urgent and every thought seems true. Not everything that turns up needs dealing with straight away. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

For the carer, the parent, the one everyone rings late at night. Eleven minutes where you are not holding anybody. About 11 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. There is a difference between loving someone and being the one who holds them every day. The grief, the guilt and the bit of resentment are not failures. They are what turns up when the holding has gone on too long without a break. Three lines, said for you first. May I be held. May I be soft. May I rest. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

The day is still in your jaw and your shoulders. Six minutes to put it down by the door instead of carrying it up to bed. About 6 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Perfect for the evening. The working self is a costume. The one who answered the messages, the one who held it all together. You take it off, and you do not even fold it. Three lines to finish on. May what I did today rest. May what came to me today rest. May what is still unfinished rest. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Stay lying down for this one. We go through the body asking each part the same question: what do you need today? About 8 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Perfect for the morning. Feet first, then upwards. If something hurts you notice that it hurts, and you do not fix it or argue with it or build a story round it. The body does not answer in words, and sometimes it does not answer at all. Asking is the practice. The body that woke up today is the one you have, and it has carried you this far. The companion talk episode: Waking Up to Body Betrayal: How to Find Peace in the Pain Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

You pressed play because it is already here. So we are not getting rid of it. We are answering the door. About 7 minutes. Short enough for a bus or a car park. You say hello to it, out loud or not. Then you ask why it came, the way you would ask a friend who turned up looking pale. It might answer in a sentence, a feeling, a memory, or not at all. You are not the anxiety. You are the one who opened the door. The companion talk episode: "I'm Fine": When It's Armour, When It's Honest, and How to Tell Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

A walled garden that only grows at night, and only while somebody is resting in it. Tonight that is you. About 16 minutes, tense and release first. Only listen where it is safe to sleep. Tense and release through the whole body to begin with, because falling asleep is a skill and that is the part that works. Then you sit on an old bench and the garden grows around you at the speed of your breathing. A leaf unfurls on the way out, a seed settles on the way in. It does not need you to watch it. Your resting is the gardening. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Six minutes, and it works in a waiting room. You have not failed because a thought turned up. You were never meant to stop them. About 6 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Notice the breath, notice the thought, do nothing with either. You have thoughts, but you are not those thoughts. The awareness behind all the noise is where the peace already is. If your mind wandered and you noticed, that was the practice. That is all it ever is. The companion talk episode: Demystifying Meditation: What You Need to Know Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Not sleepy tired. The kind where you have been running on empty far too long and cannot remember when you last stopped. About 13 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. You lie down in a clearing where nobody is looking for you and nobody needs anything. Animals rest when they are tired. They do not lie there listing everything they should be doing instead. When the pull comes to get up and be useful, you say two words to it. Not right now. There is a dignity in being tired. The companion talk episode: The Dignity of Being Tired: Give Yourself a Break Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Something in you went quiet a while back. Not broken, just dormant. This is a meditation about noticing it stir. About 15 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. A patch of winter earth, bare and cold for a long time. Then one green shoot, barely visible, that did not ask anyone's permission. You do not dig up a bulb to check whether it is growing. You sit nearby and trust that something is happening underneath, and that is the entire practice. The companion talk episode: What Rises When You Stop Pushing Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Nobody else in the world is breathing this exact breath. Then we widen out until half the country is breathing with you. About 14 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Perfect for the morning. Your own breath first, wherever you feel it most. Then the room, and the same air going in and out of you. If there is a pet asleep somewhere, notice it has its own rhythm going alongside yours without either of you trying. Then the house next door, the street, someone a few roads over putting the kettle on. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Rumi said sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Fifteen minutes at a window, not understanding anything on purpose. About 15 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. You stand at a window with everything you know and everything you never will on the other side of the glass. The magic did not go anywhere. You learned the names of things and mistook that for knowing them. Your eyes catch a sliver of the light that exists and your ears a fraction of the sound. That is worth stopping for. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Try to let go of a thought right now. Really try. It is still there, and now you are annoyed about it as well. About 16 minutes, a short talk then a meditation. Letting go asks you to hold the thing in mind so you can check whether you have dropped it. It is do not think of a red bus, every time. Acceptance says something else. This is here, I see you, you can stay. The struggle was the fuel. Take the struggle away and what is left is just what is. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Not the abundance you are told to chase. The kind already in the room, that you stopped seeing years ago. About 13 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Perfect for the morning. Take the chair away. Feel the floor, the awkwardness, the annoyance. Now let it come back. Then the pillow, the quilt, the kettle. All of it just works until it does not, and then it is all we can think about. This morning arrived. You woke up. There is another breath and another day, which was never guaranteed. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Intrusive thoughts are not stopped, they are starved. Your mind only watches for two things: did it make you feel something, and did you go with it. About 14 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Push a thought away and you have given it exactly what it wanted, which is your attention. Good or bad makes no difference to the sender. So you sit on the platform and let the trains in. Someone hands you something, you say thank you, you put it down. Do that long enough and the mind quietly stops sending that one. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

You already know today is going to be hard. You came anyway, and that takes something. About 10 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Perfect for the morning. You move through the day from the heart rather than the head, because the head is quick and the heart has a few thousand years on it. Some of the faces you meet are part of what makes today difficult. Every one of them is doing the best they can with what they understand, which does not make them right. That includes you and me. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

For when the world is going too fast. You slow yourself down first, then let everything else follow you. About 12 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. It starts inside. The breath, the muscles, then the thoughts getting further apart. Then you look at whatever is near you, a cup, a table, and let that slow down too, until the whole thing has dropped a gear. I have thoughts but I am not those thoughts. I have feelings but I am not those feelings. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

An evening beach with nobody on it, the sand still warm, and a dune to lie down in. About 13 minutes, tense and release first. Only listen where it is safe to sleep. Tense and release through the body first, because that is the part that does the work and the body usually goes under before the mind. Then the walk. The sea does not try to be anything other than the sea. It comes in, it goes out. Your breath is doing exactly the same thing and you are not running either of them. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

For the kitchen table with a cup of tea, before anyone needs anything from you. About 12 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Perfect for the morning. The stillness you find here is not something this meditation makes. It is always there. You just cannot see it when you are in doing mode. Then you walk the day through gently. A little extra time getting places, a pause at a door, listening to someone a beat longer than you normally would. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

For when you have been doing everything right and nothing seems to be moving. Progress is often invisible while it is happening. About 11 minutes, a short talk then a meditation. A seed underground has nothing to show for weeks. Healing works the same. Trust is not believing everything is fine, it is knowing you are moving even in the dark. You walk a path where the light breaks through sometimes and the fog rolls in at others. I trust the path even when I cannot see it. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

The lotus never asks the water to be clear before it rises. You do not need the world sorted before you open. About 12 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Perfect for the morning. Pick your flower. A lotus, a rose, a sunflower, or a wild Cornish one out of the hedgerow. You start closed in the soil with roots going down into everything that has happened to you, the hard parts included. Then the light changes and you open, one petal at a time. Nothing outside you has changed. You have. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Nothing gets built in this one. You walk round a garden finding the strengths that were already growing in it. About 14 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Moss in the shade is your kindness, the sort you give without needing it noticed. The old tree in the middle is your patience. The still pool is your empathy. A single wildflower between the stones, not the biggest or the loudest but bravely open, is your courage. At each one you find a real moment from this week. The companion talk episode: In a Hard World, Your Softest Skills Are Your Strongest Asset Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Lights off, phone face down. A lantern path up a hill, and music that fades to nothing while you go under. About 17 minutes, tense and release first, with music that fades near the end. Your body falls asleep first and the mind follows, so we start with the body. Tense and let go, section by section, which is the most reliable way there is into sleep. Then the walk. Stone walls with moss on them, lanterns getting smaller until they blend into the stars, and a warm bench at the top. You are not meant to reach it. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

We give better advice to other people than we ever give ourselves. Twelve minutes of turning that round. About 12 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. You zoom out and watch yourself go about the day. The scrolling, the food, the thing you do to avoid thinking. You watch as a kind parent would, not a critical one. Then you pick one thing, only one, that you would gently suggest. We already know what to do. We have read the book. We just sit back and do not do it. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

A short drop out of the head and into the heart, for the moment you are stuck in noise with nothing you can usefully solve. Under 4 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. You let the body settle, then move your attention down out of the thinking and into the chest. Quiet over the clutter, trust over control. It ends on three lines about resting in the wisdom of your heart, your breath and this moment, and then you are back. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Three minutes, sitting or standing, for the moment it has all got a bit much and you cannot leave the room. About 3 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Let gravity have the weight of you. Notice you are already breathing. You are not the thoughts, and you are not the story about how today is going. Let this moment be enough, let yourself be enough, and then go back in. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Make a fist round the thing you are clinging to, then open your hand. Notice it does not fly off. That is the whole lesson. About 11 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. It can be an object, a person, a habit, or just how you think things ought to go. First you feel the grip, actually in your fingers. Then you open the hand and let it sit there like a butterfly, not pushed away and not held. Push at an attachment and it grips harder. Stop pushing and it starts to loosen on its own. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

For the aches you have started apologising for. A weathered bench above a beach, and two younger versions of you already sitting on it. About 15 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. The Japanese have wabi sabi, the beauty in the worn and the cracked. A bench left out in the salt for years. I think we can look at ourselves the same way. Every line and every ache is a record, not a fault. Your body has never once left you, and it has done its best with everything thrown at it. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Forgiveness is not for them. You do it to stop drinking the poison and waiting for someone else to feel ill. About 11 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. In Zen there is mushin, no mind. Not empty, just roomy enough that things can arrive and leave again. You bring one person or one event, say plainly that it happened and it hurt, then ask what it taught you. I do not believe in forgive and forget. I do not think it is possible. You never have to tell them. It is not about them. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Recorded late in my own afternoon with too much still on the list. Five minutes to settle before the evening. About 5 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Shoulders, eyes, forehead, breath. Nothing else in it. There is one idea here I keep coming back to. It is far easier to bring your calm to the world than to calm the world down first. We nearly always try it the hard way round. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Shikantaza, which is Zen for just sitting. You do not fight the thoughts, suppress them or work them out. You just stop boarding them. About 14 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Sit on the platform and let the trains come in. That one is not yours, so you do not get on. Your mind hands you another straight away, and eventually it learns which ones you take. One line does most of the work here: I have thoughts, but I am not those thoughts. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Zen does not fix your life. It stops you needing to. A short talk and a sit, for anyone tired of working on themselves. About 12 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Somewhere along the line we were told peace is earned, and that once everything is sorted out we can finally rest. I think that is backwards. This one asks you to be the sky that lets every kind of weather through, and to sit with three lines: nothing to do, nowhere to get, nothing missing. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

I use this one when I feel myself contracting, usually because of other people. A circle that keeps getting wider. About 12 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. Your closest people first, in a circle around you on a meadow. Then it widens to the ones you half know, then to strangers, then to the ones you find difficult. If you meet resistance you soften round the edges rather than force it. Then the edge dissolves altogether and it is just love in, love out. The companion talk episode: How Big Is Your Circle? Let's Talk Love and Acceptance Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

When everyone says you are doing enough and something inside you still says you are falling short. This is a place to rest, not to fix. About 14 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. The part that says I must do more is not your enemy. It is a child that never felt finished. You let it ache and you hold it. Underneath is a bigger mind that already holds everything and wants nothing. You are both, and you are the one who sees both. I let the small mind ache. I let the big mind open. I rest in the middle. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Turn the phone face down. Eight minutes of the actual world instead of the one on the screen. About 8 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice. You use what is really here. Sounds you do not bother naming, the air on your face, the chair under you. The pull to go and check something will come, and you can feel it come and not move. The real disconnection is noticing there is nothing you need to do with this moment. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

Falling asleep is not something you do. It is something you allow. Eight minutes of getting out of the way. About 8 minutes, mostly tense and release. Only listen where it is safe to sleep. Toes, calves, thighs, arms, face, then everything at once. Tense and let go. It is the quickest reliable way into sleep there is, and it is nearly all of this episode. Somewhere in there the limbs stop feeling like yours to carry. The body goes first and the mind follows, which is the right way round. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

You become an old tree. Not to feel strong, but to notice the roots were already down there doing the work. About 10 minutes, ending on the singing bowl. There is a short poem in this one. Roots do not rush to reach the dark, they trust the slow unfurling. What is solid need not shout. The tree does not work at standing up, it simply is, and your resilience is the same. A tree does not grab hold of a leaf on the way past. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee

A New Year message about needing people. I cannot put a jumper on without help, and it took me most of my life to stop saying no thanks. About 9 minutes. Not a meditation, just me talking. Looking back at a year, you do not see a line. You see moments. The lad who chased me down the street with a pound for the bucket. The Canadian couple who were not offended when I called them American. You rely on people too. Everyone is climbing the same mountain from a different side, seeing something true and calling everyone else wrong. I end on I love you, and I mean it as acceptance. Treat me to a coffee, keep the podcast free, and get my Weekly Calm every Sunday. It is all on stevenwebb.uk Thank you for sitting with me. Steven Free book: 5 Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Yours when you join my Weekly Calm. Support Stevens work and links to other podcasts: stevenwebb.uk Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Buy Steven a coffee