The Daily Exhale

Meditation For Overwhelm

Julianne Arce

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Some days ask more of you than you feel like you have to give. One thing becomes five, everything feels urgent, and even the smallest task can start to feel heavy.

This short meditation is for those moments when you feel overwhelmed and can’t quite figure out what to put down first.

For the next ten minutes, you don’t have to solve anything. Instead, we’ll come back to what is actually here: your breath, the weight of your body, the ground beneath you, and the sounds around you.

You only have to meet this moment.

Come back to this practice whenever the day starts to feel too loud or too full. This is a daytime meditation, so we’ll end by gently returning to alertness, helping you feel a little more grounded and ready to move into whatever comes next.

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