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Meditation 17 · 9 March 2023 · 9:24

Wildflower Wisdom: Embrace your TRUE SELF and build CONFIDENCE

A meadow full of wildflowers, not one of them worrying about the others. Nine minutes on being one of them.

Subject: Confidence & Self-Worth

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Inner Peace Meditations · Meditation 17

Length9:24
SubjectConfidence & Self-Worth
Best timeWhen you are measuring yourself against everybody else
PositionSitting, spine up
StyleGuided imagery, a meadow of wildflowers. Music underneath

A meadow full of wildflowers, not one of them worrying about the others. Nine minutes on being one of them.

About 9 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice.

Each flower blooms on its own without checking what the rest are doing. They know they are part of the field and they are still entirely themselves. They bend in the weather rather than fight it. If you get an itch during this, scratch it. No sense torturing yourself for ten minutes over an itch.

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Who this is for

You keep checking how you are doing against other people, and it never comes out well.

Nine minutes in a field where nothing is competing with anything. It is a simple image and it goes in deeper than it sounds.

What happens in this meditation

You are standing in a wildflower meadow, colour and scent in every direction.

Then two things about the flowers. They sway in whatever weather turns up rather than brace against it, and they come back. And not one of them is watching the others. Each blooms on its own, part of the field and entirely itself, and no part of that is a contradiction.

Then the same thing said about you, with the confidence building on each breath in. Then five back to one.

How to get the most from it

Nine minutes, sitting up, and there is a useful bit of permission at the start.

If you get an itch, scratch it. Mindfully, but scratch it. There is no sense torturing yourself for ten minutes over an itch, and plenty of people give up on meditation over exactly that.

Stay with the flowers a moment longer than feels necessary before the words start. The picture is doing the work.

Questions people ask

Does telling myself I am unique actually help?

On its own, not much. Watching something that has never once compared itself to anything, and then noticing you have been doing it all morning, tends to do more.

What if I do not feel confident afterwards?

Then you are like most of us on most days. The aim is not a transformation in nine minutes. It is a slightly steadier place to stand while you get on with things.

Can I really move during a meditation?

Yes. Stillness is not the point and being uncomfortable is not a virtue. Move gently, notice you are moving, and carry on.

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The transcript

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confidence · self-worth · nature · visualisation

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Welcome to the Wildflower Wisdom. Embrace your true self and build confidence meditation.

First of all, begin by finding a comfortable seated position with your spine up straight and

You can gently close your eyes or soften your gaze just a few feet in front of you.

And remember, during the meditation, it's not about being torturing yourself or being really uncomfortable. uncomfortable It's just

about being present and aware and focused. So if you do have an itch, you know, scratch it.

But do it mindfully. Be aware there's an itch. Or don't torture yourself. Don't sit there for the next 10

minutes thinking I'm trying to get rid of the itch or an uncomfortable. Just gently move and do it mindfully.

In a moment we're going to take a deep breath in and we're to hold it and then slowly breathe

out, whether it's through your mouth or your nose, totally up to you. So if we take a deep breath

in, hold it, hold, and just gently relax breathing out

And then allow your breath to be what it is.

You don't have to get involved with your breath. Your body's been breathing for many years without you getting involved.

It

knows how fast, it knows how deep you have to breathe.

Breathe in calm, breathe out relax

calm

relax.

As you breathe in calm and then relax, just remember the relaxing. It's just allowing your body to relax rather

than something you need to forcefully do.

Your arms and your shoulders and your face and your body knows how to relax.

You've just got to give it permission to do so.

You can relax now and just allow your body to do so.

Visualize yourself standing in a wildflower meadow,

surrounded by a sea of colours and scents.

As you take in the beauty of your surroundings, allow your mind to forever quieten down, and your body just

to continue relaxing.

In this meadow, you are free to be your true self.

You are unique,

just like the wildflowers around you.

You have your own beauty,

your own talents.

And your own gifts.

Take a moment to appreciate yourself for who you are, exactly as you are.

As you continue to stand in the meadow, notice the wildflowers swaying in the breeze.

Notice how they are strong and resilient, despite the changing weather and the conditions around them.

Just like the wildflowers, you are strong and resilient.

And notice how each one of the wildflowers blooms just by themselves and they're not worried about all the other

flowers around them.

They know they are part of the whole but they are individual as themselves.

And just like the wildflowers, you can weather any storm that comes your way because you have the wisdom

and the strength within you to persevere.

Embrace this inner strength. And let it build your confidence.

And on each breath in, feel the confidence building knowing that you can handle any situation that comes your way.

And do this by knowing you can do it in a relaxed, calm way.

Just like the flower, you're flexible but you're ready for anything.

And as you continue to bask in the beauty of the meadow, know that you are exactly where you are

meant to be.

You have a purpose in this world. And you are worthy of all the good that life has to offer.

And in a moment, we're going to take a deep breath and we're going to exhale slowly. And I want

you to bring back this confidence and this knowing that you are individual. You can be your true self, but

you can also be confident and resilient knowing that you can handle any situation.

So taking a deep breath and exhale slowly. And

as we count back from five, we'll gently open our eyes and return to the present moment. So five, four,

gently open your eyes, three, shake out your arms, two, one, and now you're in the

present moment. And remember that you are unique, you are strong, and you are worthy of all the things good

in life. Embrace your true self and let your confidence shine. Thank

you. I hope this meditation helps. I'm Steven Webb and I'm the host of Stillness in the Storms podcast. Head

over to thankyousteven.com. Have an amazing day. Take care.

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