0:00 Notice the quiet weight of your body right where you're sitting.0:07 Feel the floor beneath your shoes, or the chair holding up your spine.0:15 Good morning, baby.0:18 Out here on the porch, the early sky's still that soft, dusky slate color, and the coffee in my mug is sending up one thin curl of steam into the cold air.0:36 We talked yesterday about leaving the rush alone, about how you don't have to carry it all before breakfast.0:49 Well, today I want you to go one step further into that quiet.0:56 You don't have to prove a blessed thing right now.1:02 Mm-hm.1:03 Sit with that a minute, baby.1:06 Let your breath slow down now.1:10 Inhale the cool morning air through your nose, nice and easy.1:17 Fill your chest up slow.1:20 Then let it spill right back out, like river water moving past the willow banks.1:29 No pushing.1:31 No measuring.1:32 Draw another breath in, soft and deep, filling the belly this time.1:40 And let it go.1:42 There's no hurry in your lungs.1:45 Every breath is a gift somebody left on the porch rail for you, and all you have to do is take it in.1:57 In and out, smooth as an old song you know by heart.2:03 Let your attention rest right on your shoulders now.2:10 Drop them down from your ears.2:13 We carry so much up there, honey, don't we?2:18 We haul the to-do lists, the family worries, the deadlines, like we're packing all the world's troubles into one grocery sack.2:33 Unclench your jaw.2:35 Let the tongue rest easy behind your front teeth.2:41 Smooth out the skin across your forehead, right between your eyebrows where the squinting hides.2:52 Feel the palms of your hands lying open in your lap.2:59 Empty hands can't hold tension.3:02 They don't have to grasp a single task.3:07 Move down through your belly, letting the tight knot in your stomach soften and melt away.3:18 Feel your legs, heavy and warm.3:21 Down to your feet resting flat, solid on the good earth.3:28 You're completely supported.3:31 Mm-hm.3:32 The world will hold together while you rest.3:37 Now, slip beneath the noise for a moment.3:42 Underneath all that loud humming in your head about what you got done yesterday, or what you got to accomplish before noon today.3:57 There's a sweet, wide stillness waiting under all that noise.4:04 It reminds me of the church sanctuary on a Tuesday afternoon.4:12 Nobody singing in the choir loft, no organ swelling, no sermon from the pulpit.4:21 Just sunlight filtering through the stained glass, falling warm across the empty wooden pews.4:32 The room isn't holy because of the noise it makes.4:38 It's holy because it's still.4:41 You don't earn your keep on this earth by wearing yourself down to the nub.4:50 Your value isn't a scorecard.4:54 Being HERE is the work.4:56 Being alive is the song.4:59 Mmm-mm.5:00 Rest right in the hollow of this silence.5:05 Stay in the quiet beneath the thoughts.5:10 Take one more deep, slow breath with me.5:14 Feel the morning around you again, the cool air touching your skin, the weight of your hands.5:25 Look, we spend so much time believing we got to earn our place under the sun.5:34 Soooo listen to me: you're ALREADY enough.5:39 Before you pick up the phone, before you answer an email, before you step out your front door.5:50 Who you are, right in this quiet breath, is plenty.5:57 Go on, now, and let the day meet you kind.
