{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Combative Calm","title":"A Practice in Self-Respect (guided meditation)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":834,"description":"This guided meditation is a practice in staying with yourself.\n\nYou already know how to show up, push through, and take care of what needs to be done. \nYet, most of us don't know how to remain present with our own needs once the urgency drops. T\nhe body stays alert. The mind keeps scanning. Rest feels conditional.\nIn this meditation, we slow the system down and work directly with that pattern.\nThrough breath, gentle body awareness, and simple imagery, you’ll be guided to notice where effort lives, where you’ve been holding yourself together, and what happens when you stop overriding those signals. \nWe’re building tolerance for listening. For letting sensation move. For allowing needs to exist without immediately managing them.\nThis is the kind of practice that changes your baseline over time. It teaches the nervous system that presence is safe, that nothing needs to be earned in this moment, and that self-respect can be quiet and internal.\nTake this meditation into your day not as a performance, but as a reference point. A reminder of what it feels like when you stay with yourself instead of leaving.\nThat feeling is what you carry forward.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/W63vaFw1P16d2xN3SLR7vUZE25bFarjcIZFz84pH7Nk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kN2Y4/ZmNlODIwYWI0M2Y5/NTFiZDM0MDQ3OWE5/ZTVjNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}