Hello and welcome to a complete disconnection meditation.
I'm not sure if that's really possible,
Let's give it a go.
I'm Stephen Webb and I invite you to make yourself comfortable,
To allow your body to become calm in this moment and become aware of your breath.
You don't have to do anything with your breath.
You don't have to do anything with your body.
Your body knows how to relax and become comfortable and the same as your breath knows how to breathe.
Just breathe in calm,
Breathe out relax.
And we're just disconnecting and allowing the body to be what it is and allowing this moment to be what it is.
And if your mind wanders into thought,
Just smile and bring it back to your breath.
Just being aware of your breath.
And we're just becoming aware of this moment,
Maybe we can use sound,
What can you hear?
But don't do anything with what you can hear.
Just hear it and you don't even have to name it,
You don't even have to say in your mind what it is.
Notice the air around you,
You can feel it on your face,
Whatever temperature it is,
Maybe you're indoors or maybe you're outside.
Maybe you can feel your body touching the seat or whatever your body is doing now,
It's making contact with something and what we're really doing is just connecting with what's real in the world and disconnecting from what's not real.
The stuff on the phone and the TV and everything that's going on,
Although that may depict real life events,
But we don't have to be in contact with it all the time,
We can always take a step back and just become aware of what's happening.
And you may feel the pull towards checking your phone or you may even feel the pull towards opening your eyes and looking around because you don't know what's going on around you.
But you really do know you have your other senses and you just find peace in this moment.
Just connect to what's within inside,
Breathing in calm,
Breathing out relaxed.
And one of the biggest ways we disconnect is by realizing that you don't have to do anything with this moment.
When we feel connected we always feel we've got to do something.
There's always something else on our to-do list,
There's always someone to communicate with or something to do.
Whereas by disconnecting,
Ah,
There's nothing we need to do in this moment.
It's just peace,
Just quietness,
Just stillness.
We don't even need to breathe,
We don't even need to relax because the body's got all that,
The body knows.
What if you even go deeper and don't even become aware?
Just be.
What would that be just to be here now?
How peaceful is that?
Imagine what this would like,
Just complete disconnection from everything and just being.
And you can do this anytime,
You don't have to do it for a long time and really sit in a special comfortable place.
You can just take a step back,
Turn the phone over and disconnect,
Turn the TV off and just disconnect.
And just allow the body to relax and allow the breath to be what it is.
And just disconnect from the doing and move to the observing and then move to just being aware.
And open your awareness to everything,
Leave nothing out.
You don't need to do anything with this awareness.
Just the same as sounds coming in,
You don't even need to hear the sound,
Allow it to pass through.
In a moment we're going to open our eyes and just bring it back to this room and we're going to stay disconnected until we actively choose to.
So 5 or 4 just gently open your eyes,
3 shake out your arms,
2 just look around the room.
And just remember you can in everyday life and just like right now,
You don't have to reach for your phone,
You don't have to feel like you're connected all the time.
The real connection is just being present but not having to feel the need to do something all the time.
How joyful is it that a thought can arise,
You don't have to do anything with it.
A feeling can arise and you don't have to do anything with it.
An awareness,
You can see something,
You might see a tree and you don't have to even label the tree a tree,
Just ah.
