Anchoring into Kindness

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

There’s no question about it—we are living in chaotic times. We’re all trying to be happy and at peace, and we often think we need to find external circumstances that are conducive to those states. But did you know that there is a bedrock of stillness and kindness that we can drop into, no matter what’s going on around us? In this episode of The Gathering Room, I’ll guide you to this still, calm place through a very special meditation that you can revisit any time you feel tempest-tossed. As my partner Rowan, recently pointed out to me, self-kindness can always be accessed by recognizing that the universe is essentially kind. We can cultivate stillness in our chaotic world by aligning ourselves with this universal kindness. I had never thought of kindness as being the essential component of the universe. So I started doing meditations and thought experiments where I focused on the kindness that there is in the world and began to anchor myself into that—and that’s what I’ll be teaching you in this episode. I have a new take on our usual Space, Stillness, and Silence meditation, and it involves imagining yourself as a point of consciousness above a stormy ocean and dropping a thread of consciousness into the depths to reach the stillness at the center of the earth. By learning to find and anchor into this stillness—which is the same as universal kindness—you can find peace and stability, no matter what the circumstances. We are all on an odyssey in this life where the journey is the goal. We’re heroes who have taken the call to adventure, and we’re here for the adventure itself. Tune in for the full episode to anchor into universal kindness and learn how it can help you see the good in difficult situations, help you navigate loss, self-doubt, and other turbulent situations, and help you become a safe harbor for others.

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0:00.0	Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called
0:08.0	Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?
0:14.7	Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke
0:22.0	them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to
0:28.3	marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.
0:49.0	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck. Today I am talking about how to stay still and calm. We usually do this
0:57.4	stillness, space and silence meditation, always on the gathering room. I'm going to do a different
1:04.9	meditation this time. I'm going to show you in a minute. Someone's from Istanbul.
1:09.7	Amazing. And North Carolina, calm down, Marty.
1:13.4	Stop being so distracted by place names. I love all of you being here at once.
1:20.8	And what I want to talk about is how in this world, with all its differences, with all the time
1:27.2	differences right now, with all the its differences, with all the time differences right now,
1:28.6	with all the political differences, with all the seasonal differences, there is a sort of bedrock
1:37.6	that I think we drop into when we do our silent stillness in space meditation. But I have a new take on it. I know people
1:48.5	might not be watching these in order, but last week I talked about kindness to the self. And I got a lot of
1:57.5	feedback that people love that and needed it. So I was really focusing on it this week.
2:03.3	And I found that when I could be kind to myself, I had immediate access to that space,
2:10.4	stillness, and silence. So I was talking to Rowie, Rowan Mangon, the gracious Badger, my partner.
2:16.1	And she said, I said, how do you access self-kindness?
2:20.4	Because for me, I was like going inside myself and pulling up this kindness from the well of
2:26.7	kindness or whatever you want to call it. And she put it really differently. She said,
2:31.4	hmm, when I align myself with the kindness that I believe is the world or is in
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