Stepping Back From Everything

Step back from everything to see the bigger picture with this short, mindfulness-based meditation. When times are challenging or we feel overwhelmed or under pressure, it's important that we take time to pause, breathe out, ground ourselves, and step back from things. This enables us to gain a clearer perspective and move forward from a centered, steady place within ourselves. This meditation combines mindfulness, grounding, breath awareness and self-compassion.

Transcript

Allow your eyes to comfortably close. As you breathe out, Let your shoulders and belly soften. Have a sense of stepping back from everything. Allow all of you to step back. And breathe out. Draw yourself away from the land of your thoughts. Back to the present moment. To the steady ground beneath your feet. The gentle ebb and flow of your breath. The sensation of the air touching your face and your body. Allow how you are engaging with this moment to soften. Allow how you are engaging with yourself to soften. Allow how you are engaging with everything around you to soften. As you breathe out, Let your mind sit back. Let your body sit back. Let all of you sit back. Sit back into the simple here and now. In this present moment. And allow the space directly around you to open up. It can be as large as you like. Take as much space as you need. Let everything around you sit back. Breathe from this space. This space of stepping back in the present moment. As everything sits back. Your breath ebbing and flowing. The steady ground beneath you. The gentle touch of the air on your face. Notice what it's like to have stepped back. Notice what things look like from here. What they feel like. Perhaps the bigger picture comes to you. Perhaps it will later. And when you are ready, You can draw this meditation to a close. But now it's time to sit back.

Reviews

Stepping back, then moving into moments of surrounding peace. Thank you, Linda.

The stepping back meditation felt so Serene and has calmed me to a point that I feel I'm about to fall asleep in the afternoon. the peaceful tone and the slowness with which you choose the words helped bring my body away from anxiety and tension and expectation in a way that I have yet to experience

Thank you, that was great. I'm always impressed how these short meditations really get the tension out of my shoulders and my mind to quiet down in busy times. Thanks again!

Hypnotic. Just what I need at the moment. I’m struggling with my old body. Nameste.

What a beautiful and grounding voice. I loved the pace.