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Meditation 72 · 15 March 2025 · 8:13

Disconnect from Overthinking and Find Peace in the Present Moment

Turn the phone face down. Eight minutes of the actual world instead of the one on the screen.

Subject: Busy Minds & Overthinking

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Inner Peace Meditations · Meditation 72

Length8:13
SubjectBusy Minds & Overthinking
Best timeWhen you have been on the phone too long
PositionAnywhere, indoors or out
StyleGuided, eight minutes, using what is actually around you. Music underneath

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.

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Thank you for sitting with me.

Steven

Who this is for

You have been connected all day and none of it has left you feeling connected to anything.

Turn the phone face down. Eight minutes of the actual world instead of the one on the screen.

What happens in this meditation

No imagery at all. You use what is really here.

Sounds, and you do not even name them. The air on your face, whatever temperature it is. Wherever your body is touching the chair or the floor.

That is the connecting part. The disconnecting part is from the stuff that is not in the room, however real the events on it may be.

The pull will come. To check something, or just to open your eyes and see what is going on. You feel it come and you do not move.

Then it goes one step further, out of doing and into observing, and then into simply being aware, with nothing left out.

How to get the most from it

Eight minutes, and it works outdoors as well as in, which is worth using.

Not naming the sounds is the instruction people skip. Hearing a blackbird is one thing. Deciding it is a blackbird is another, and it takes you back into the head.

You do not need a special place for this. Phone face down, television off, and start.

Questions people ask

Is complete disconnection actually possible?

Probably not, and I say so at the start. What is possible is noticing how much of the pull is habit rather than need.

What if I feel anxious not checking?

Then feel that, and stay put. Noticing the pull without obeying it is the entire exercise and eight minutes is a safe place to practise it.

What is the real disconnection then?

Realising there is nothing you need to do with this moment. Connected, we always feel there is one more thing on the list. There is not, for these eight minutes.

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The transcript

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overthinking · present-moment · mindfulness

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Hello and welcome to a complete disconnection meditation.

I'm not sure if that's really possible. Let's give it a go.

I'm Steven Webb and I invite you to make yourself comfortable.

Allow your body to become calm in this moment and

become aware of your breath.

You don't have to do anything with your breath. You don't have to do anything with your body.

Your body knows how to relax and become comfortable. And the same as your breath knows how to breathe,

Just breathe in calm. Breathe out, relax.

And we're just disconnecting and

allowing the body to be what it is and allowing this moment to be what it is.

And if your mind wanders into thought, just smile and bring it back to your breath.

Just been aware of your breath.

And we're just becoming aware of this moment. Maybe we can use sound. What can you hear? But

don't do anything with what you can hear

just hear it and You

don't even have to name it. You don't even have to say in your mind what it is.

Notice the air around you. You can feed it on your face. Whatever temperature it is, maybe

you're indoors or maybe you're outside.

Maybe you can feel your body touching the seat or whatever your body's doing now is

making contact with something.

What we're really doing is just connecting with what's real in the world and disconnecting from what's not real.

The stuff on the phone and the Tv and everything that's going on.

Although that may depict real life events and we don't have to be in contact with it all the time.

We

can always take a step back and just become aware of what's happening.

And you may feel the pull towards checking your phone or you may even feel the pull towards opening your

eyes and looking around because you don't know what's going on around you.

But you really do know you have your other senses and you just find

peace in this moment.

Just connect to what's within inside.

Breathing in calm. Breathing out relax

And one of the biggest ways we disconnect is by realising that you don't have to do anything with this

moment.

When we feel connected, we always feel we've got to do something. There's

always something else on our to-do list. There's always someone to communicate with or something to do. Whereas

by disconnecting, ah, there's nothing we need to do in this moment.

It's just peace. Just

quietness. Just stillness.

We don't even need to breathe. We don't even need to relax. Because the body's got all that. The body

knows.

What if you even go deeper and don't even become aware? Just be.

What would that be? Just to be here now.

How peaceful is that?

Imagine what this would like. Just complete disconnection from everything and

just being.

And you can do this anytime. You don't have to do it for a long time and really sit in

a special, comfortable place. You can just just take a step back. Turn the phone over and disconnect.

Turn

the Tv off and just disconnect.

And just allow the body to relax and allow the breath to be what it is. And just disconnect from

the doing.

And move to the observing. And

then move to just being aware.

And open your awareness to everything.

Leave nothing out.

You don't need to do anything with this awareness.

Just the same as sounds coming in. You don't even need to hear the sound.

Allow it to pass through.

In a moment we're going to open our eyes and just bring it back to this room. And we're going

to stay disconnected until we actively choose to.

So five or four, just gently open your eyes. Three, shake out your arms. Two, just look around the room.

And just remember you can in everyday life and just like right now, you don't have to

reach for your phone. You don't have to feel like you're connected all the time. The

real connection is just being present but not having to feel the need to do something all the time.

How joyful is it that a thought can arise, you don't have to do anything with it. A feeling can

arise and you don't have to do anything with it.

An awareness, you can see something, you can you don't you might see a tree and you don't have to

even lay with a tree a tree. Just, ah.

I'm Steven Webb and thank you for listening to this Inner Peace Meditation with me. And thank you to all

of those that support this meditation and keep it free. You can see my other podcast

and how you can support this podcast by going to StevenWebb.uk. Thank you. Have a wonderful,

peaceful and hopefully more disconnected day.

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