Taking One Step At A Time

A short five-minute meditation to pause, connect to your breath, and take the next step. This helps those who feel overwhelmed by a large project, stuck and uninspired, or feeling like they have too much to do.

Through a gentle pause and awareness of your breath and body, you’ll create a little space between yourself and everything that needs to be done. Rather than trying to solve the whole problem at once, you’ll be invited to let go of the need to see the entire path and simply connect with the next step.

Music: “Angelica (Instrumental Version)” by David Edward. Licensed through Epidemic Sound.

Transcript

Hello. My name is Jamie. And this is a short guided meditation around taking the next step. This meditation is for those of us in times where we feel stuck. Or overwhelmed. So find a comfortable position. Whether sitting or lying down. And close your eyes. Ensure that your spine is straight. And allow gravity to release the jaw. The shoulders. Eyebrows. Send your breath deeper into the lower belly. Soften your hands. Your toes. And receive. Taking the next step. Often times. We think so far ahead. We can become caught up in the destination. And become overwhelmed by the endless steps it takes to get there. Perhaps the destination becomes more important than the journey itself. We create internal pressure. Stress. We judge ourselves based on how much we have or haven't done or achieved. If this sounds familiar to you. It's okay. You are not alone. There are many things in the world asking us to speed up. For today. You will remember. That you have autonomy. You have the ability to pause. To slow down. To breathe deeper. You get to choose not to worry about the whole journey. But just to take the next step. One step at a time. Maybe even the smallest possible step you can take. And only when you have taken that step. Do you take the next? And the next. And the next. And slowly. You practice letting the journey unfold. Remembering that this is a journey. Falling in love with the journey itself. Becoming back involved with the process of your own unfolding. And it starts with conscious, Slow breaths. So take a deep breath in through the nose. And exhale out through the mouth. Thank yourself for taking this short five minutes to pause and to slow down. In a world that tells you to speed up. Thank you so much for being here. Have a beautiful day.