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Martin,

Would it be possible to get the full text for the entire 3 Min Lu voice memo she mentioned in your most recent podcast below? What she read was so perfectly spot on! I would like to read the full text of her daily stillness practice if she is willing to share that with all of us. I have 10 years of gradually managing insomnia under my belt now and “practice” not “perfect” seems to be the key. Just knowing that this daily stillness practice works over time and gradually allowing/welcoming gnarly thoughts as they are is the challenging but necessary path forward. No more need for the search for a “fix” that does not exist, slowly changes everything.

Thanks,

Erik

Lu: I, so I made my own. I made my own voice memo. It’s my voice with all of my favorite things that have been so helpful over all my setbacks and difficulty, and I listen to it every day. I’m super committed to it. It’s my own stillness practice. It’s only three and a half minutes, and so there’s really no excuse to not listen to it.

Lu: And I feel like that is my mental health, like maintenance. I do it every day. That’s been a great new practice I developed after your class.

Martin: What kind of things are in there?

Lu: Oh. Yeah, I actually have it here because I thought you might ask me that. So I don’t have to s- I don’t have to read the whole thing, but I can share with you some of my favorite things.

Lu: I start with, “There’s nowhere else you need to be right now.” That’s like really big for me. Like just settle your body, comfortable position, take a deep breath. There’s nowhere else you need to be right now. I feel like that really helps me actually change like my whole frequency of my energy going on.
Lu: Always remembering to breathe, and then one of my favorite lines that I repeat to myself a lot is, “Stillness is not weakness, it is trust.” I say, “Notice where stress is sitting today. Maybe it’s in your chest, your jaw, your shoulders. You do not need to fix it. You do not need to explain it. Just acknowledge it.
Lu: Silently say, ‘I see you. You’re allowed to be here.’” So just that alone is shifting for me every single day. There’s another line I, wanted to share with you with this. This is another mantra, and I say this to myself a lot now as I’ve really tried to change my inner self-talk, saying, “I am safe, I am healing, I am learning, and I’m loved.”

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