Paul Roth | #VEDA 2020 18 - Meditation Because I'm Not Okay by @paulidin [OC] #WithMe #QVEDA @paulidin | Uploaded April 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
"I'm angry today at people who are trying to break quarantine in both tiny and huge ways. And people who think the flu and future coronavirus vaccines are scams for money. And every single day, Trump and his supporters.

Hello PaulTalkers and other viewers!

I am not okay today. So I'm going to do something I never do and meditate. You can join me.

If you are more practiced than I am, this will be nothing. If you also usually feel too anxious to meditate like I usually do, maybe this will give you an idea.

I got this body scan from the Meditation for Real People youtube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=41GqbdgYAmE

[voiceover:] close your eyes,

take a deep breath in through your nose ,
filling your belly up and lift the chest up and hold

then when you're ready, exhale deeply
emptying your lungs

make room for an even bigger breath

inhale making the belly nice and round, lifting the chest and holding

and release one more time

inhale deeply and holding

exhale deeply

on the next inhale, focus on tensing up your face

breathe in and scrunch up your eyes, your forehead,
mouth, and nose and hold

and release all the tension out in a big exhale

in the next breath in, scrunch your shoulders up
and hold

then release all the tension from your shoulders

inhale and scrunch up your arms and hands making fists, squeezing those arm muscles

then exhale and release the arms and the hands

breathe in and tense up your stomach and
chest muscles holding it

then release the tension and exhale

inhale deeply tensing up your buttocks muscles and
hold

then release

breathing in squeeze the thighs by pushing your feet against
the floor

then release the thigh tension,

inhale squeezing the calf muscles

and exhale releasing

breathe in and clench your toes and feet holding it

then releasing the foot tension exhale all the air out

now that you've gone through the whole body
inhale deeply again focusing on any areas that need
extra attention and holding it

and releasing it when you're ready

and inhale, making that belly nice and round, lifting
the chest and hold it

and let out the breath in a nice sigh out

and one more time inhale and hold

and sigh it out

And let's hope tomorrow is better."

Find me @paulidin most places except youtube where it's youtube.com/PaulRoth
Recorded using a Google Pixel 3's front-facing camera.
Scripted using Google Docs
Open Captioned with AutoCap.
Edited with Quicktime
Theme song: today, Glacier from YouTube Audio Library.
usually Minor Swing / I Will Survive by The Bitter Dose Combo with permission from Matt Henry
Title Card photo taken by Paul Roth, 2019