Episode #13 Bonus Meditation Entering the Still Point — A Norabloom Guided Practice

In this bonus guided meditation, Holly leads you through "Entering the Still Point" — a gentle practice designed to help you find the calm, quiet center that lives beneath your thoughts and emotions. Through breathwork, body awareness, and visualization, this meditation invites you to pause, settle, and trust the natural pace of your healing and becoming. Perfect for moments when you need grounding, rest, or a reminder that stillness is always within reach.

Show Notes with Timestamps:

• [0:00] — Opening & settling in (posture guidance)
• [0:24] — Breathwork: slow inhale/exhale, releasing tension
• [0:53] — Observing natural breath, noticing the pause between breaths
• [1:19] — Discovering the "still point" — the restful space between breaths
• [1:50] — Body scan: releasing weight, grounding into the earth
• [2:18] — Softening muscles, shoulders, belly, and hips
• [2:46] — Finding your inner still point — the calm center beneath thoughts and emotions
• [3:17] — Letting the nervous system recalibrate; healing without force
• [3:46] — Bringing something unfinished into the still point with trust
• [4:19] — Doorway visualization: standing in the threshold between what was and what is becoming
• [4:46] — Gently returning: deepening breath, reconnecting with the room
• [5:10] — Closing affirmation: "I trust the stillness within me"

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Transcript

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Entering the Still Point, a Nora Bloom guided practice. Take a moment to settle in. If you're seated, let your feet rest gently on the floor. If you're lying down, allow your body to feel fully supported. Let your hands rest somewhere soft, over your heart, on your belly, or your palms open beside you. Close your eyes. Take a slow breath into your nose and exhale gently through your mouth. Again inhale slowly and exhale a little longer this time. Allow your jaw to soften and let your tongue rest on the floor of your mouth. Unclench your hands and soften your forehead. There's nowhere to go right now, there's nowhere to be, nothing to achieve. You're simply arriving. Begin to notice your natural breath. You don't need to change it, just observe it. The inhale rises, the exhale falls like waves. Gently bring your attention to something subtle. At the top of your inhale, there's a tiny pause, and at the bottom of your exhale, there is another. Do not exaggerate it, do not hold your breath. Just notice the natural space. The breath comes in. There's a moment of suspension. The breath leaves, another moment of quiet. This is the still point. As you breathe, allow those small pauses to feel welcoming. The space between the breaths is not empty. It's restful, neutral, free from effort. That small space, your body is not striving, it's not performing. It is simply being. Allow yourself to linger there gently. No force, just awareness. Now bring the awareness to your body as a whole. Notice the weight of you. Notice where your body meets the chair on the floor. Imagine that beneath you is steady earth, supportive, unmoving, and patient. Let your muscles release just a little bit more. Just a little. Your shoulders soften, your belly softens, your hips grow heavy. And as your body settles, imagine a quiet center deep within you, not in your thoughts, not in your emotions, but beneath them. A calm center, like the eye of a storm, like the center of a turning wheel. This is your inner still point. It's always been here. If thoughts arise, let them. If feelings arise, let them. Nothing needs to be pushed away, nothing needs to be solved. The space in between is wide enough to hold it all. So you can say inwardly, I am safe in this pause. Breathe in, pause softly, breathe out, pause gently. Let the nervous system recalibrate. Let your body reorganize without interference. This is healing without force. Now gently bring to the mind something that feels unfinished in your life. Not the most overwhelming thing, just something tender. Notice how your body responds. Instead of analyzing it, bring it into the still point. Imagine placing that experience into the quiet center within you. You're not fixing it. You're not, you're just allowing it to settle in. Trust that your body knows how to integrate it. Trust that clarity does not come from urgency, it comes from stillness. As you continue breathing, imagine yourself standing in a doorway. Behind you is what was, and in front of you is what is becoming. You do not need to step forward yet. You do not need to step back. You're allowing to stand in the threshold. Feel the strength of that, the stability, the quiet power of not rushing your evolution. Your becoming is not behind schedule. It is unfolding at the speed of safety. Begin to deepen your breath, wiggle your fingers softly, roll your shoulders, notice the room around you. But before you open your eyes, place one hand over your heart and one over your belly and say softly, I trust the stillness within me. When you're ready, open your eyes and carry this steadiness with you. The still point is not something that you visit once. It's something you return to again and again. And from this place, your glow is not forced, your healing is not hurried, and your becoming is not chaotic. It is grounded, embodied, and the best part is that it's yours.