In this practice, you’ll be guided to explore what quality you’d like to cultivate in these times. The practice isn’t about finding the right answer or fixing anything. It’s about the pause itself—the act of turning toward yourself long enough to listen.

In slowing down and pausing, something becomes available, a kind of clarity, a remembering. This meditation is less about achieving a particular state and more about cultivating the muscle of tending to yourself—now and anytime you need it, even if just for a few seconds at a time.

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I'm finding myself in a new cycle of news addiction, and the regular and constant exposure to it is certainly leaving me feeling anxious and overwhelmed. This meditation was originally created in a cycle of overwhelm during the pandemic, and yet, it is serving me yet again.

There’s something both humbling and reassuring about that. The same practices return when we need them. The same questions become anchors: What would serve me right now? Can I pause long enough to listen?

If you’re feeling it, too—the pull toward regularly refreshing the news page or app, the undertow of anxiety, the sense of being swept away—I hope this brief practice can offer a moment of returning.

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