How to Stop the Spin

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

These days life can seem extremely chaotic—have you felt it, too?

Whether it’s the noise of the world or the noise of your own thoughts, there’s so much happening and so many things to think about that it can really get your head spinning with questions like:

What am I supposed to be doing?

Where is my attention supposed to be?

How do I rest my heart?

The good news is this: You already have a still, magnetic center within you, and on this episode of The Gathering Room podcast, I share how you can access it.

The world can be chaotic, confusing, and sometimes absolutely terrifying—but that’s only when we let ourselves spin. It’s not about escaping the chaos but finding your still center within it.

One effective way to connect with the point of stillness within each of us—what I call the “inner compass”—is meditation. I’ll lead you through a version of my Space, Stillness, and Silence meditation to help you let go of tension and allow your nervous system to regulate inward.

I’ve only just begun to realize how when you center yourself in that place and allow it to be enough, the answers to your questions about the most trivial things and the most immense things will come without effort into your consciousness.

There is an intelligence and a love so great for you that hears you in your confusion and amidst the terrifying cacophony of this world.

Ro and I recently took Lila on a trip to the Central Park Zoo, and it was pure pandemonium in New York City: screaming kids, crowds of parade-goers, Hare Krishna worshipers, blaring bands, and all of it bathed in the city’s current signature scent…weed.

As we were driving home through all this chaos, Lila declared, “There’s a lot of music in this town, girls!” before promptly falling asleep in her car seat. This reminded me that stillness is always available—even in the loudest moments of life.

There’s no need to rush or try to fix everything. Your destination is right here in the present moment. Be here now. Your inner stillness holds the answers to your questions, even those you haven’t asked yet.

When we ground ourselves in the space, silence, and stillness and stand in the huge wide plain where there is no one but you and your compass that is pointing straight into your own being, your presence becomes the portal. It opens to the instructions for what you need to do next.

If you’d like to hear more about trusting your inner compass, how to stay creative amidst chaos, and how to find the answers you’re seeking, tune in for the full episode. We’ll take a collective deep breath and ground ourselves in “the still point of the turning world” together. Join me!

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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. So it's a weird world.
1:00.6	So it's a weird world out here. Isn't it? Isn't it just an interesting time? And I think a lot of us,
1:06.8	certainly I from time to time, feel like there's so much happening and so much coming in and so many things to think about that it can get your head spinning. You can just be like,
1:13.7	what am I supposed to be doing? Where is my attention supposed to be? How do I rest my heart?
1:21.1	And we gather here so that we can rest our hearts so that we can take a deep breath. So I'm going to
1:31.9	start today's gathering room, which is about how to stop spinning, with a meditation that is kind
1:41.1	of like the space stillness and silence thing, but the new consciousness, you know,
1:45.6	is not, it's not a consciousness of stasis. It's very fluid. It moves. It changes. It doesn't really have any
1:53.8	rigidity, rigid rules. So I thought I'll just go with the meditation that comes up for me
2:00.4	on a given day. So I was sort'll just go with the meditation that comes up for me on a given day.
2:02.1	So I was sort of in communion with my soul.
2:07.2	I was feeling all of us spinning or being kicked by so many things that seem to want us to spin.
2:16.1	And then I had this image come up. So if you wouldn't
2:20.3	mind joining me in this, get your body relaxed. Let the tension go for half an hour, take a deep
2:27.5	breath in and way out all the way. And again, let your nervous system start to regulate inward. And as you begin to
2:43.0	become more still inside, you might want to close your eyes or half close them or look at
2:48.4	at the floor in front of you or a blank wall and get your imagination
2:54.5	going. So continue to breathe deeply and freely. And imagine that you're standing in a wide
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