Meditation For Sitting With Discomfort And Distractions

This guided meditation helps you gently explore the discomfort and emotional patterns that can drive clutter, distraction, and impulse buying. Through grounding, breath awareness, and mindful observation, you’ll learn to sit with difficult feelings without immediately reacting or seeking comfort through “stuff.” This practice supports you in recognising that your worth is not defined by possessions and helps cultivate a deeper sense of enoughness, clarity, and inner calm.

Transcript

This is a guided meditation to help you sit with discomfort. Now it's designed to go with my course how to stop the clutter from coming back which is a follow-on from the introduction to decluttering and you could actually use this meditation with either course because we're looking at the pain the discomfort that's underneath that urge to accumulate more stuff because we think it's going to solve a problem now nothing outside of us is going to bring us lasting joy of course we we buy stuff that we need food clothes household items but it's when we buy things that we don't need or more things that we need so more clothes than we need more stuff in the house than we need then it can affect us mentally and physically as well so this meditation will help you to identify the pain the discomfort that's underneath that and help you to be able to sit with that pain and not act on it because what we practice in meditation is is a rehearsal a practice for life so start by getting into a comfortable position take some deep breaths and if you wish you can close your eyes and feel the ground beneath you feel the support of the earth and as you breathe out imagine that all the tension that you're holding on to in your body is going into the earth let the earth take the strain allow yourself to be supported and as you breathe in breathe up from the earth into your heart feeling the love it's already there and now just take a moment to check in how are you feeling right now and can you be honest it's probably not all good it's probably not all bad probably a mixture of both notice whatever's there what comes up any thoughts any physical sensations and let the thoughts come and go observing not reacting especially notice if a thought comes up about acquiring something or buying something and as that thought comes up notice what sensations you feel in your body is there any discomfort is there any urge to go and distract yourself is there part of you that is thinking that this is going to be the end of your life that this is going to be the answer to all your problems and when you have the latest shiniest thing that all your problems will go away just notice sometimes when we realize this can actually be quite funny we realize oh god why did i believe that and it sometimes helps to smile and laugh so we don't have to take life too seriously you can have some lightness around it hold it lightly i think what was i thinking i don't need the latest phone or a bigger car or whatever i've got now it's fine and notice if there's some aspect where you're not feeling good enough that there is a need to compete to keep up with others and that can be quite painful so have love and compassion for yourself as well and know that these thoughts and feelings aren't real they don't define you don't need the latest thing as you breathe out you just imagine that that discomfort is going away and you feel love filling your body and knowing that you are enough just the way you are you don't need to prove yourself through what you do what you say what possessions you have they don't define you so as we bring this meditation to a close having the intention to remember that you're enough you have enough and you are good enough so now just feel the space inside your body the space your body takes up in the room wherever you are and notice what's going on around you through the senses any sounds smells you can touch taste see and each time you do this meditation going forward feeling better about yourself knowing that you don't need to prove yourself to anybody and now if you want you can open your eyes if they were closed just make some gentle movements and come back into the room