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Meditation 57 · 22 April 2024 · 13:51

I Am Enough Meditation (Simple and Direct)

For the days you feel you are not enough. Ten short lines, said plainly, no build up. The last one is the title.

Subject: Confidence & Self-Worth

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Inner Peace Meditations · Meditation 57

Length13:51
SubjectConfidence & Self-Worth
Best timeA day you feel you are falling short
PositionSitting, hands on your thighs
StyleGuided, ten affirmations, no build up. Music underneath

For the days you feel you are not enough. Ten short lines, said plainly, no build up. The last one is the title.

About 14 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice.

Three lines for self-compassion, three for inner strength, four for your own worth. You say each one after me and try to feel it as already true, today and yesterday and next year. It closes with a hand on your heart. May I be happy. May I be well. May I be loved.

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Thank you for sitting with me.

Steven

Who this is for

The days you feel you are not enough. Or short on inner strength, or short on any kindness towards yourself.

Ten short lines, said plainly. The last one is the title.

What happens in this meditation

You settle, notice the breath without touching it, and let the body go. Then one more sweep from the top of your head to your toes.

Then three sets of lines. You say each one after me, and try to feel it as already true, today and yesterday and next year.

Self compassion first. I forgive my past mistakes. I treat myself with kindness and compassion. It is alright to rest and recharge.

Then inner strength. I trust my own wisdom. I have the power to overcome any challenge. I define my own success.

Then your worth. I am worthy of love, happiness and respect. I am strong, capable and resilient. I accept and love myself unconditionally. Today and always, I am enough exactly as I am.

It closes with a hand on your heart. May I be happy. May I be well. May I be loved.

How to get the most from it

Fourteen minutes, and the whole thing rests on feeling the lines rather than reciting them.

If one of them will not go down, do not fight it. Say it anyway and move on. The ones that stick are usually the ones worth coming back to.

Doing this a few times a week does more than doing it once and deciding it did not work.

Questions people ask

Do affirmations actually do anything?

Said once, not much. Felt in the body, repeated over weeks, they change what your subconscious keeps offering you. That is why I ask you to feel them.

What if I do not believe them?

Then say them and notice the disbelief without arguing with it. Nobody starts out believing these. The believing comes later and it comes quietly.

Is this a good one for a bad morning?

It is one of the best I do for that, because it asks nothing of you but listening and repeating.

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The transcript

It follows the audio. Press any line to jump there.

self-worth · affirmations · self-compassion · confidence

Read the transcript

Hello. Welcome to I Am Enough. Guided Meditation.

This meditation is for you if sometimes you feel like you may not be enough, sometimes you lack a little

inner strength, or you lack a little bit of self-compassion. I will step you through some affirmations that will help

you with all three. But until then, just make yourself comfortable. Wiggle your bum into the seat that you're in

or on the cushion. Shake out your arms and Just place your arms and your hands on top of your

thighs.

And just bring your awareness to your breath.

You don't need to do anything with your breath. Just allow your body to breathe. And you just become aware

of it.

Breathing in calm. Breathing out relaxed.

And You don't need to do anything else in this moment.

And as you're aware you're breathing in, just allow your body to relax.

And as you're aware of your breath, just allow your body to relax in this moment. Allow

your shoulders to relax.

Your eyes and your face. Your jaw.

And any part of your body where there's any pockets of tension. Just

invite that area just to relax on the next out breath.

And just like you're breathing, your body knows how to relax as well. You don't have to force it.

And if you find your mind wandering, just smile gently and thank you for the thought. But bring it back

to your breath.

You may hear the odd sound coming in. Acknowledge that it's a sound.

And no matter how many times your mind tries to take you away, just smile and thank you for the

thought. Recognising that's what the mind does.

It's perfectly normal for the mind to think stuff up.

It's perfectly normal for the body to have emotions.

All we're doing right now is just focusing on our breath,

breathing in calm,

breathing out relaxed.

And we'll just do one more sweep through the body. Just starting from the top of your head, going right

down to your toes. And

as you breathe out, just imagine your whole body relaxing in this moment.

Every muscle just relaxed.

You might find your breathing just gets slightly deeper and slightly slower.

That's all okay. Your body knows how to breathe.

We're nice and peacefully relaxed. We're going to do some self-compassion affirmations first. And

after I say it, you say it in your mind or gently out loud. And

make sure you feel it throughout your whole body. What does it feel like to be completely true and completely

real in this moment?

And the first one is, I forgive my past mistakes.

I forgive my past mistakes.

I treat myself with kindness and compassion

I treat myself with kindness and compassion

It's okay to rest and recharge.

It's okay to rest and recharge.

We'll move to a few affirmations for inner strength.

And the first one, I trust my own wisdom.

I trust my own wisdom.

I have the power to overcome any challenge.

I have the power to overcome any challenge.

I define my own success.

I define my own success.

And just bring your awareness back to your breath.

Reground in your body. Breathing in calm. Breathing out relaxed.

And this is the final set of affirmations.

And remember to feel them deeply. As

if you know they're true today, they were true yesterday and they will be true into the future.

I am worthy of love, happiness and respect be

of love happiness and respect

I'm strong capable and resilient

I am strong, capable and resilient

I accept and love myself unconditionally

I accept and love myself unconditionally.

Today And always, I am enough exactly as I am.

Today and always, I am enough exactly as I am.

And we're going to close this meditation. And if you can just place your hand on your heart and

just feel your chest rising alone with your breath.

Feel the energy in your heart

And just feel this deeply.

May I be happy.

May I be well.

May I be loved.

And we'll do that one more time.

May I be happy.

May I be well.

May I be loved.

Now if you bring your awareness back to your breath,

aware Whether you're breathing in or

whether you're breathing out.

And any sounds around you, including my voice,

any sensations in your body,

the room you're in,

just gently open your eyes and look around a bit. Shake out your arms. And just feel what it's like

to know that you are enough.

Know that you

are exactly who you need to be

today and tomorrow and in the future.

You already have your own wisdom.

You know how to be kind and compassionate towards yourself.

And you know how to believe in yourself.

Just take a deep breath and really allow all that to sink in.

I'm Steven Webb and thank you for doing this meditation. I know you're enough. Exactly as you are.

If you head over to StevenWebb.uk, you'll be able to find links to whatever podcast and to more meditations

that will help you to grow and find more self-love for yourself and get through the difficult and become more

resilient in life.

And maybe you can support the podcast and the work I do. Take care. Thank you and have a wonderful

day.

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