A Meditation to Quiet an Overthinking Mind

0:02Hi, I'm Steven Webb and this is one of my favorite meditations

0:06that helps me to deal with the constant chatter and that thinking

0:11and the overthinking of the mind, especially when we don't want

0:15it. You don't need to do anything with your body or your breath.

0:30Just become aware. Your body knows how to breathe, Your body knows

0:41how to relax. And we just allow these things to happen in this

0:46moment. So as you let yourself settle, as you let yourself settle,

0:58feel the weight of your body just been held by whatever's holding

1:02it. There is nothing to fix here, nowhere else to be, just this

1:14or even in calm, breathing out, relax. And I'd like us to imagine

1:24just a quiet railway station, your perfect kind of quiet railway

1:29station. And it's calm here, almost empty. And there's a nice

1:37bench that we're both sitting on. We don't have to go anywhere.

1:45We're just sitting, watching the platform. And in a moment a train

2:03comes in. And this train is a thought. Maybe something you need

2:12to do later, maybe something from this morning. We don't need

2:19to push it away, we just notice it. Ah, there is a train.

2:33And we stay on the bench. We let it sit there for a moment. And

2:39then in its own time, it pulls away. We don't have to climb on.

2:58And here comes another one. This one might be a bit louder. It

3:10might be a worry, the kind that usually grabs us and tries to

3:16pull us out of whatever we're doing. Notice the little pull to

3:21get on board, to follow it, to go where it wants to take us. And

3:29just for now, we stay seated. We let it pull in and we let it pull

3:37away. And the trains keep coming. This is what they do. The

3:53mind is built to think the way the heart is built to beat. We are

4:00not here to empty the station. We're just learning to stay on the

4:04bench. And every now and again, a kinder train will settles

4:20in a warm memory, a small gratitude. Those ones we can choose

4:27to ride and gently if we wish. But mostly we are just watching,

4:37resting, letting them come and go. Notice now the quiet between

4:52the trains. That space the stillness on the platform. This is

5:04you, not the trains, the one who watches them. There is nothing

5:30to chase, nothing to board, just the bench and the quiet. And

5:39you. And as we rest here a little longer, if you get any thoughts,

5:54come in. Just imagine their trains coming into the station. And

6:06in a moment I'm going to come back from five. So five, just gently

6:19become aware of the room you're in. Four gently open your

6:23eyes if they're closed. Three. Just move your arms, wiggle your

6:27fingers and wiggle your toes, perhaps to just look around generally.

6:34One and just take a deeper breath. And. I always do this meditation

6:42because it takes us out of what the thoughts are, what the thoughts

6:49do, who we are, the role we play. And you may have noticed that

6:56you had gaps between your thoughts when very often we just

7:01don't notice them. It really has been a pleasure sitting with

7:05you on the bench today. Thank you for your support on inner peace

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7:24completely free for everybody. Take care. Bye for now.