Stillness in the Storms

Are you bad at meditating? So is everyone. The mind wanders because that is its job. Meditation is not quieting it, it is noticing you have gone and coming back. Support me with a coffee and join my Weekly Calm every Sunday: stevenwebb.uk When I started, I thought meditation was sit down, be quiet, no thoughts, pure bliss. It lasted about 30 seconds. Then a teacher gave me the only instruction tha...

What would you miss? This episode is about suicide, my granddad's and my own, and the one question that kept me here. If you need help right now, the numbers are just below. If you need help right now UK and Ireland: Samaritans, call 116 123. Free, any hour, any day. UK only, if you cannot talk: text SHOUT to 85258. Free, 24 hours. US: call or text 988. Australia: Lifeline, 13 11 14. I was 12 when...

Support Steven's work. Treat him to a coffee stevenwebb.uk Are your boundaries keeping you safe, or keeping you stuck? I have never liked the word. This week a reader called Katherine gave me a better one: gates, not thorns. I have carers in my life 24 hours a day, so I could not build walls even if I wanted to. I had to grow the strength to let the world in instead, and that is where I stand on b...

Who are you, really, behind all the roles? Sit properly with that question and no answer comes. That is the answer. Open me up and there is no Steven in there. In deep sleep there is no Steven either. We wake up and we come online and we boot the roles: dad, councillor, host, meditator. Each one needs a different set of skills, and you can only run one at a time. So who is watching the breath when...

If this were my last podcast, what would I want to leave you with? Let everything happen to you. No feeling is final. That is Rilke, and it is where this one started. No script, just a cup of coffee. You cannot change the present moment. You cannot grow your hair, lose weight, get younger or stop the rain in this second, and yet we spend enormous energy arguing with what has already arrived. Imagi...

What if the thing you keep chasing is the exact reason you cannot catch it? There is no happily ever after, and that is good news. Picture the ox with a carrot on a stick fixed above its own head. Every step forward moves the carrot forward. That is happiness as most of us run it. And it is not a design fault, it is evolutionary genius, because if you settled the moment you got something you would...

Why does part of you not want the pain to stop? Pain is inevitable. Suffering is the second arrow, and you fire that one. The first arrow lands and it hurts. Then we load the bow ourselves. Every replay in your head, every post, every phone call to a friend, is another arrow into the same wound. And here is the uncomfortable bit. The suffering loop feeds us, because it makes us the hero of our own...

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk My teacher Junpo once said a line I have never been able to put down. I have never known an angry person who did not care. Sit with that for a second. Every time you have lost your temper, underneath it was something you cared ab...

You have somewhere between thirty and forty thoughts a minute, and you never asked for a single one of them. So why do we lie there at three in the morning treating our own mind like it has done something wrong? This one is for the overthinker, the one who cannot find the off switch. The shift that changes everything is small and easy to miss. You are not the thought, you are the one who hears it....

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is stay close without stepping in too quickly. This week I want to talk about one of the hardest forms of love: giving someone space. Not walking away. Not going cold. Not pretending we d...

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk The First 30 Seconds: Why Every Feeling Is a Gift Your body's fear response is not a fault. It is thirty seconds of something brilliant. You hear two cars crash outside your door, or a horn behind you, or the word "bear" round a...

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk Waking Up to Body Betrayal: How to Find Peace in the Pain Your body isn't letting you down. It's been carrying you all along. Do you ever wake up and just know it's going to hurt the second you move? I do. Most mornings. This wee...

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk Two words I have said roughly 25,000 times. Most of them on autopilot. Description Two words. Probably the most common two words spoken in the English language. Two words I say almost every single morning, and you probably do too...

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk There are eight billion minds in the world, and not one of them was made to fit the same cushion. Description This week I want to talk about why meditation works beautifully for some people and barely at all for others, and why n...

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk Back to Basics: Why Meditate? Description You've tried meditation. Maybe you dip in and out of it. You feel a little better for a few days, then life gets loud and you forget. Then you snap at someone, or you fire off the email y...

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk The Dignity of Being Tired: Give Yourself a Break What if tiredness isn't weakness? What if it's the most honest thing your body is telling you? In this episode, we talk about why we treat exhaustion like a personal failure inste...

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk What Rises When You Stop Pushing An Easter Sunday conversation about what comes back to us when we finally stop forcing. Steven opens with daffodils appearing on Cornish roadsides and moves into a wide-ranging reflection on renew...

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk Finding Inner Peace: Do You Need to Be a Buddhist? Host: Steven Webb Website: stevenwebb.uk Have you ever caught yourself collecting meditation apps, lining up Buddhist statues on a shelf, and wondering if you're doing peace wron...

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Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk Forget Resolutions: Why One Word Is All You Need This Year Happy New Year to you all! It is great to be back recording after a tough few weeks battling a severe chest infection. Before we dive into today’s episode, I want to say...

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk In this episode I explore a question many people quietly carry. Can you love Jesus and still practise awareness. Can the comfort of Christian faith sit alongside the clarity of Buddhist teaching. Do you have to choose one path or...

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk Today, we're diving into the topic of inner peace and what it truly means. I share my personal journey of finding peace, especially after a life-changing injury that left me paralyzed. It’s not about always feeling good or avoidi...